If a computer can learn how to write simply by analyzing one person’s work, that machine is theoretically in a position to reveal otherwise subtle idiosyncrasies about the input data—a particular ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

Scientists have deciphered the brain signals associated with handwriting. This is an Inside Science story. A man paralyzed below the neck can imagine writing by hand and, with the help of artificial ...

Singer and Ivory mis-spoke in their Nov. 4 article in the New York Times (front page, above the fold): "... there is little rigorous evidence so far to indicate that using computers in class improves ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...

Word processors were met with mixed reactions when they debuted at the end of the ’60s. While they definitely made the task of writing faster, purists were as weary of this new technology as they were ...

With a single tweet, Andy Herd raised a question about the job security of every TV writer: “i fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate ...

Researchers have demonstrated that, for a few specific tasks, it's possible to write computer programs using ordinary language rather than special-purpose programming languages. The work may be of ...

There are two places where punctuation can be earth-shattering: in poetry and in code. When I mention that I majored in English and minored in Computer Science, people are either surprised or relieved ...