The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" What about ...

We love robots but do we appreciate how much work goes into creating them? We may admire their shell and internal wiring, but we tend to forget that each robot has to be meticulously designed — often ...

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth, professors at the University of Pennsylvania, suggest that the solution is to "embed precise definitions of fairness, accuracy, transparency, and ethics at the algorithm ...

Algorithms can now work out the best ways to lay out rooms, construct buildings and even change them over time to meet user needs.