Internet search engines are a wonderful means of sifting through all the information on the World Wide Web to find just the page you need. The various search engines employ spiders to crawl the web...

Journalism and mass communications have always been fields in which being at the cutting edge is par for the course. Newspapers all over the world are now available in online versions and television broadcasts...

Researchers at the Haifa, Israel-based Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a method for giving computers the type of knowledge that can make them think in a human-like manner which includes making logical connections between topics....

If it's been a long time since you learned a foreign language, the words "language lesson" might conjure up images of dreary classrooms, language teachers with pronunciation worse than their students', and seemingly endless...

In September 2008, a train engineer in California caused one of the worst railroad crashes in American history while sending and receiving text messages. The crash killed 25 people. Most people know better than...

Sick Machines? When malicious code takes over a PC, why do we call this a virus? Do we personalize our personal computers to the point where we can consider a machine to be sick? The answer is...

Frustrated by Slowness If you've ever found your fingers drumming on your desk, frustrated with the slowness of a database in churning out your results, you'll appreciate the work of Jonghun Park, assistant professor at...

Virtual or Real? As far back as February of 2005, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cautioned federal agencies and large organizations, such as universities, to proceed with caution when considering making the switch...