When Alan Turing asked in 1950, “Can machines think?“, he was not trying to settle a philosophical argument. He was trying to ...

The Island has recently published various articles on AI, and they are thought-provoking. This article is based on a paper I presented at a London University seminar, 22 years ago. Will computers ever ...

2020 was a tough time for any movie to be released, so you may have missed this sci-fi flick from 2020 featuring a star from The White Lotus.

IN 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence (AI) to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the ...

Alan Turing, a pivotal World War II codebreaker, developed the theoretical basis for modern computing and artificial intelligence. Despite his immense contributions, he was prosecuted for his ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

A few days ago, we heard the sad news of the passing on of Capt. Dinham Suhood. Born in 1929, he was the last surviving Air ...

While Artificial Intelligence (AI) may feel like an emerging and revolutionary technology, it’s been captured in the United States zeitgeist for quite a while.