In the winter of 2011, Daniel Yamins, a postdoctoral researcher in computational neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would at times toil past midnight on his machine vision ...

The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn’t work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could. In 2007, some of the leading ...

David Beer’s book The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking has recently been published by Bristol University Press. In 1956, during a year-long trip to London and in his early 20s, the mathematician and ...