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Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Johnson said AI has "substantially wiped out" coding as a reliable source of opportunity.

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Student enrollment is down, artificial intelligence (AI) challenges the norm, and the technology job market is tightening—a ...

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...

What causes workplace sexual harassment? How can we continue to better understand it? And what can be done to prevent it? Successful answers to questions like these need a good scientific explanation.

The computer science (CS) major in the McKelvey School of Engineering, once the biggest major at WashU, is seeing a dramatic decline in enrollment in the 2025-2026 academic year. According to CS ...

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Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett have been awarded the A. M. Turing Award “for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure ...

AI systems learn patterns from data rather than following explicit instructions. Neural networks process information through connected layers to detect complex patterns. Modern AI chatbots like ...