This spring, Chris Callison-Burch, Ph.D., was in town to share an unusual approach to machine learning. This is one of the hottest topics in computer science: It is behind everything from Google’s ...

If two minds are better than one, what could thousands of minds accomplish? The possibilities are endless -- if researchers can learn to effectively harness and utilize all that knowledge.

Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are using data gathered through a crowdsourcing website to build a diagnostic tool capable of determining whether or not a cell is cancerous.

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated the location of King Philip Regional Middle School. It is located in Norfolk, Mass. California’s Poway Unified School District tried an experiment ...