Brain-computer interfaces are helping to restore movement, vision, and speech.

Balancing initial investment and long-term results in the software development process.

Research software engineering research aims at understanding and improving how software is developed for research.

Why do large language models hallucinate?

A route to democratic digital governance.

Applying the principles of trauma-informed care when designing apps can improve accessibility for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Traditional symbol-based AAC devices impose meta-linguistic and memory demands on individuals with complex communication needs and hinder conversation partners from stimulating symbolic language in meaningful moments. This work presents a prototype ...

A pioneer in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, Maja Matarić discusses her career, her inspirations, and the surprising things that happen when humans and robots interact.

Diversity practices that mitigate social biases from creeping into your AI.

The metaverse remains a work in progress, but improvements in how it handles ethical concerns and addresses cultural issues could push it further along the path to mass adoption.

As systems graduate from labs to the open world, moving beyond prompting is central to ensuring that AI is useful, usable, and safe for end users as well as experts such as AI developers and researchers.

As the impact of AI is difficult to assess by a single group, policymakers should prioritize societal and environmental well being and seek advice from interdisciplinary groups focusing on ethical aspects, responsibility, and transparency in the ...

Can states force social media platforms to stop removing lawful-but-awful postings?

Focusing on "enabling approaches" that treat humans as partners can add another layer of protection to our cybersecurity defenses.

Obtaining information before a visit is one of the priority needs and challenges for blind museum visitors. We propose BentoMuseum, a layered, stackable, and three-dimensional museum map that makes complex structural information accessible by allowing ...