Self-driving cars still rely on humans — but how often remains unclear

Self-driving vehicle companies, including some operating in Texas, aren't saying how frequently human remote assistance ...

2001: A Space Odyssey originally had a 20-foot-tall green alien and a 'crap' script

58 years ago, 2001: A Space Odyssey hit screens. Read SFX legend Douglas Trumbull on the movie's original "crap script" and ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Department of Computer Science

The computer science program provides students with a broad and deep foundation in theory and modern software and hardware concepts as well as introduces students to numerous programming languages and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women—Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

Robust against noise, geometric-phase swap gates bring stability to quantum operations

Researchers at ETH Zurich have realized particularly stable quantum logical operations with qubits made of neutral atoms.
The New York Times

Climate and Environment

Commercial vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry. By Eric Niiler and Tristan Spinski The panel voted to ...