Aldo Leopold has written a passage in his classic A Sand County Almanac that goes to heart of what I want to write about this morning. No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an ...

Ashley Wiersma is a doctoral c andidate in the department of history at Michigan State University. You can follow her on twitter at @throughthe_veil. “A synthesis of cognitive research endorses the ...

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” That Groucho Marx quote illustrates why it’s difficult for computers to understand humans. When programming for ...