If a computer can learn how to write simply by analyzing one person’s work, that machine is theoretically in a position to reveal otherwise subtle idiosyncrasies about the input data—a particular ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...

Word processors were met with mixed reactions when they debuted at the end of the ’60s. While they definitely made the task of writing faster, purists were as weary of this new technology as they were ...

Singer and Ivory mis-spoke in their Nov. 4 article in the New York Times (front page, above the fold): "... there is little rigorous evidence so far to indicate that using computers in class improves ...

Since the launch last year of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds. The impact of AI on publishing was hotly ...

National Novel Writing Month is an annual tradition for writers looking to compete a body of work within one month. Former winners have actually secured lucrative publishing contracts and its an ...

With a single tweet, Andy Herd raised a question about the job security of every TV writer: “i fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate ...

There are two places where punctuation can be earth-shattering: in poetry and in code. When I mention that I majored in English and minored in Computer Science, people are either surprised or relieved ...

None of this turned out how it was supposed to. Here I am, a human, writing a story that was assigned to a machine. If I’d published what the computer came up with, you’d be reading something like: ...