The first-person shooter is famous for being ported to almost every computer on the planet. Now, we know it can run off the Earth as well.

This year, students who enroll in Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science, Harvard’s flagship coding course, will have a new learning tool at their disposal: artificial intelligence.

It was the spring of 1942. America’s back was against the wall. The Japanese Navy ruled the Pacific. Pearl Harbor was still in ruins. In a dim basement beneath Pearl, Commander Joseph Rochefort ...