If the computer didn’t get the right answer, Rosenblatt figured out he could go back to the triggers and tweak their individual thresholds until the computer came up with the right answer. Modern ...

The idea of a thinking machine is an amazing one. It would be like humans creating artificial life, only more impressive because we would be creating consciousness. Or would we? It’s tempting to think ...

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CU Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Repenning remembers one of the key moments that affirmed his choice to study computational thinking, a relatively new field of research into the mental ...