As the evening draw in it's once again time for the annual series of Gibbons Lectures at the University of Auckland. Each year the fo...

Over in Sydney, the Museum of Contemporary Art has on show an exhibition of the work of Grayson Perry . Perry is a very modern artist who...

Microsoft's AI recently got all the wrong publicity when a chat-bot, called Tay, quickly learnt via Twitter to become a racist. Hopef...

My colleague, Bob Doran , brought this to my attention and he writes: Recently, a video appeared on Youtube purporting to show a Facit elect...

What is computer science? This is a question I often get asked, or variants like, "what do computer scientists do?" Sometimes I st...

D-Wave, the quantum computer company, has announced it's latest quantum computer the D-Wave 2X . "With 1000+ qubits... the D-Wave...

It seems that A.I. is always in the news these days and as somebody who has been working in the field since the 1980s it's heart-warmi...