Several recent studies looking at computers and online learning found mixed-to-negative results. And they offer clues about how schools and tech companies can do better.

“Learning to see and learning to read are the two main things we need for the computer to do to gain knowledge,” said Jen Rexford, chair of Princeton’s computer science department and the Gordon Y.S.

Computer scientists invented the name machine learning, and it's part of computer science, so in that sense it's 100% computer science. But the content of machine learning is making predictions ...

In a first-of-its-kind effort, a group of Princeton University computer scientists set a widely used artificial intelligence program to the task of learning English by performing a massive ...

Failure to teach students even basic theory behind how computer technology works has several implications -- none of them positive. That’s the motivation behind a new push to boost computer ...

How young people use technology will determine their futures so schools, teachers, parents and families all have a role to ...

Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old? Looking at how children process information may give programmers useful hints about directions for computer learning ...