This year marks the 14 th annual celebration of Manufacturing Day, an October showcase of manufacturing at its best presented to young people interested in STEM and the trades: technology-forward ...

Serendipitous meetings, scholarly collaborations, and an ethos of "encouraging junior faculty to think big" laid the groundwork for groundbreaking achievement in AI.

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

Charles Dickens’ famous “best of times, worst of times” opening line in “Tale of Two Cities” has been repeated almost to the point of banality. Still, it applies to the ...

Those bogus statistics are a good reminder that people can be brilliant technologists, while also being inept education reformers. I think of Edison whenever I hear technologists insisting that ...

Now, in reality, I never did. I remained an only child, from then on until my parents died and could no longer correct the matter.

This episode has become a legend of IT culture, but the word "bug" was not invented back then. Thomas Edison was already talking about "bugs" in machines, i.e. small, hard-to-find faults, in letters ...

More than a century after its invention, illustrators still use a lit bulb to symbolize a great idea. Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison, who created the first commercial ...