IDEAS Schedule for July 2026

Highlights include: a demonic possession, a do-it-yourself exorcism, and the execution of an accused witch in Quebec City, ...
The Daily Texan

Reap the rewards of research

Columnist Luke Stark highlights the inherent value of research and the impacts it can have on education and future technology ...

In 1950, Alan Turing introduced a test that still influences how people judge chatbots today

Over 70 years ago, Alan Turing's "imitation game" revolutionized how we assess machine intelligence, shifting focus from ...
Hackaday

Alan Turing’s Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device

[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was ...

Opinion: Canada's AI industry should learn from Edmonton's experience

The University of Alberta and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) turned Edmonton into one of the planet’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Building Hosted Lincoln’s Inaugural Ball and Displayed the Declaration of Independence. Today, It’s Home to Two World-Class Art Museums

The Old Patent Office Building now houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. A new ...

In 1956, a Dartmouth workshop gave artificial intelligence its name and helped launch the field

Long before artificial intelligence became the force behind chatbots, image generators and recommendation algorithms, it was ...
The Source Weekly

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine

Cinema has long been obsessed with the concept of machines that can think, feel and one day be indistinguishable from their creators. When done correctly, artificial intelligence as a cinematic device ...