This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used to write romance novels, academic papers and software applications. But how does A.I. stack up against some of the world’s best human writers? Skeptics ...

In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their secrets, proofs are not always so simple—but a new result significantly closes ...

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Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Vibe coding means asking AI to code an app or webpage based on simple language prompts. The practice helps non-programmers create an app without writing a line of code. The four steps to vibe coding ...

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...