Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

IN Cornhill, Boston, thirty years ago, there was a shop for the manufacture and repair of nautical instruments and philosophical apparatus, kept by Ari Davis. Mr. Davis was a very ingenious mechanic, ...

For most of our planet's history, there were no such things as machines. Roughly 4 billion years sped by with countless plants and animals relying only on what nature provided for their survival and ...

Many early 'teaching machines,' like this one by B.F. Skinner, were made of wood and metal. Long before the advent of personal computers, inventors and researchers created what they called “teaching ...

hile the ancient Greeks obviously didn’t have anything like artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML), at least they dreamt of something akin to it. Hephaestus, the Greek god of ...