At this year’s Books in Browsers ‘opening act’ event, Creating Minds, held at UCBerkeley on Oct 23, we heard a number of speakers talking about the coming of the machine voices into our lives. That ...

Israeli poet and computer programmer Eran Hadas — who in January begins a six-month residency at the California Institute of Technology — has written an equation to help explain his work: “Algorithms ...

The history of intelligent machines is one of moving goalposts: Sure, a machine can do this, but can it do that? The “that” is often an achievement that strikes us as strongly connected to ...

ROBO AND JULIET: Professors need not lose sleep over their students submitting poetry written by robots. Computer scientists at Dartmouth College held a “Turing Test” for poetic computers. The ...

Algorithmic pricing: the case of the $23,698,655.93 book on Amazon. (It's about flies.) In this global age, should we still teach national history? How to combat Qu'ran burnings: make them a free ...

In addition to hosting the city’s irreverent, interactive poetry fest every April, the folks at O, Miami are engaged in various projects year-round. One such effort involves teaching poetry workshops ...

It's said that — given enough time — an army of monkeys with typewriters could recreate the works of Shakespeare. Well, it turns out that millions of humans with keyboards and Twitter accounts can do ...

Google traditionally plagues the internet with April Fools’ gags on April 1st, but developer Chris Zubak-Skees has beaten the internet giant at its own game today with Suggested poems, a Chrome ...