Had Narrative Science—a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company's Chicago headquarters lie only a long baseball ...

A teenage programmer explores the concept of writing algorithms by creating step-by-step instructions to teach her computer a dance routine. Suitable for teaching at KS3, KS4 and National 4 and 5.

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

We use symbols and words that the computer understands to write our program. A symbol is a simple picture, like an arrow that shows us what to do. Will this algorithm help the girl get the cake?

Artificial Intelligence is at a stage where whole articles can not be written by robot. In the near future you may be reading news written by an algorithm!

Parker designed the algorithm to follow (hopefully closely) the path that an expert would take in writing a summary about a data-rich subject.

In the paper that describes the algorithm, researchers say that the technology could one day be used to preserve the handwriting of people whose ability to write was damaged by a stroke or perhaps ...

On January 1, 2015, a friend of mine on Facebook posted a link to an online discussion about this problem, and said he had a hunch I would be interested in it, Professor Ian Gent, one of the ...