All retirees should seek to protect at least some of their funds from themselves. This article describes why and how I am coping with this issue. An easy step is to designate a Trusted Contract with ...

Computers are one of those artifacts of modern life that we love to hate. They are powerful, pervasive, intrusive and, let’s face it, clumsy to use. Today’s applications require us to break down ...

Other definitions refer to “computer systems modeled after the human brain.”[ii] IBM’s well known foray into the space centered on Watson, which competed with humans in playing Jeopardy, and won.

NATO's Allied Command Transformation Innovation Hub has enlisted a team of Johns Hopkins engineering students in the fight against misinformation. The Whiting School team members—all students in Johns ...

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross wears many hats: he runs a company called Gemedy in Boston focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), he has a number of academic appointments at Harvard and MIT, and he ...

In 2012, 9.6 million adults in the United States had lived with a serious mental illness in the past year. Also, 20 percent of adults over age fifty have depression, and about 11 percent suffer from ...

In children with autism, researchers observed an association between cognitive empathy, emotional recognition, and social functioning.

Patients with prostate cancer receiving hormone therapy reported greater perceived cognitive difficulties, but cognitive tests found "no conclusive evidence of a decline," a new meta-analysis found.

High levels of inflammatory biomarkers in diabetic patients slated for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) may signal an increased risk for cognitive impairment post-CEA, a new study suggests. Those patients ...