The "Turing test" has been making headlines thanks to a field you might not expect: video games.
In the middle of the last century, British mathematician Alan Turing proposed the following test for determining whether a computer could think...on its own!
Your hard drive is getting full, so you delete a few photos, some word documents, and then empty the recycle bin. They're gone now, right?
Computer scientists are investigating mimicking nature in an effort to make it harder to hack into computers and networks. Learn how on this Moment of Science.