Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Originally a software engineer at Microsoft, Tenen is now an affiliate at Columbia’s Data Science ...

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A poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and National Public Radio shows that over two-thirds of American adults use a computer at work, and over 80 percent of ...

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Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something ...