Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society was an informal discussion that took place at Harvard Law School on December 8th, 2011. Hosted by Jonathan Zittrain, Marin Soljačić and the Berkman Center

Here's a question to ponder: would you feel safer in a computer-driven car than you do in one you drive yourself? A self-driving car could succumb to software errors or poor programming -- but on the other hand, it also couldn't fall asleep at the wheel,

The following is the full transcript of the second part of an interview that David Greelish did with John Sculley during the last week of 2011. You can listen to the audio file (37.3 MB) but Mr Greelish asked The Mac Observer if we would transcribe i

John Markoff, a technology reporter at The New York Times, reports on the implications of researchers at I.B.M. having stored and retrieved digital information from an array of just 12 atoms.The new storage could lead to 100-fold increases in chip densit

In 1996 I reviewed three books for New Scientist about the same 1995 events: the chase (through cyberspace and the physical United States) after and capture of Kevin Mitnick. Who's that, you say? Ah, so young. Ever heard the term 'social engineering'? M

Jacob "Jack" Goldman, the founder of Xerox PARC, died Tuesday at 90. In the New York Times's obit, John Markoff describes how Goldman's vision convinced a copier company to invest in the future, even if it had no idea what to do with the returns: "PARC r