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From its abundance of computer science majors to its world-class laboratories, Stanford has been a hub for artificial ...

Experts from CNET, PCMag, Mashable, ZDNET and Lifehacker debated for more than six hours to determine the absolute best new ...

Blink, and you'll miss these celebs' sneaky "Star Trek" cameos. Many of them are Trekkies themselves who were honored just to ...

So our “maybe one” is officially “maybe two.” Sleuths also discovered Tisdale was conspicuously missing from the mom group’s ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

Historically, the Zambezi River in Southern Africa was believed to begin its journey at a spring in northwestern Zambia. A new study suggests the river actually starts off in a shallow depression in ...

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On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...