Alan Turing, an English mathematician who played a key role as a code breaker during WWII, is sometimes called the father of computer programming. He is famous for proposing a test for computer ...

For those of us who worry that Google might be making us stupid, and that, perhaps, technology and education don't mix well, here's a new study to confirm that anxiety. The Organization for Economic ...

University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In an event that is sure to capture the world’s imagination and that has been proclaimed as setting a new ...

An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing -- the father of modern computer science -- has been achieved. The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time ...

If you believe the headlines, a major milestone in the rise of the machines was passed this weekend. The basic gist, from a Press Association report: “A ‘super computer’ has duped humans into thinking ...

Yesterday, at a University of Reading demonstration in London, a computer convinced human judges that it was actually a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy. By convincing one-third of the judging panel of its ...

When students at Govans Elementary School in North Baltimore took statewide standardized tests last year, principal Linda Taylor said, some struggled with using a mouse to navigate the online ...

CompTIA's IT Fundamentals+ certification demonstrates general knowledge of computer components, operating systems and networks. The quiz below, from McGraw Hill's certification guide, will help you ...