Machine learning enables nonexperts in an application area—computer scientists in women's fashion, for example—to learn and predict based merely on data. As a consequence, interest in the ...

Mentor Public Library will be offering seven free computer classes later in August at its Main Branch, including ...

According to John Timmer for Ars Technica, computer scientists not only taught a computer how to pretend to be a sniper hunting prey, they taught it how to teach itself to get better at its task. AND.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — People who take a class on learn how to use a computer at the University of Hawaii Community Colleges may get a free refurbished laptop while supplies last. The classes start ...

"Learning how to use a computer has become as important as writing and reading in the classroom," says Alison Lane, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at Ohio State University.

The answer for some schools: blended learning, which is part computer lesson, part classroom instruction. KIPP Empower Academy in South Los Angeles has had to make virtue out of dire necessity.

Using computers to support student collaboration has significant positive effects on their learning, according to a comprehensive new review of more than 400 research studies conducted since 2000.

Scientists have found that youth influence their parents in all technologies studied (computer, mobile Internet, social networking) up to 40 percent of the time. The children's scores were higher ...