Aggy is a writer and editor who has worked for many high-traffic digital publications. He's a technology and gaming fanboy who has been a writer, editor, consultant, and computer animator. Managing ...

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In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and ...

Terra is a new low-level system programming language that is designed to interoperate seamlessly with the Lua programming language. It is also backwards compatible with (and embeddable in) existing C ...

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Natural-language dialog is key for an intuitive human–robot interaction. It can be used not only to express humans’ intents but also to communicate instructions for improvement if a robot does not ...

It’s no coincidence that many programs using artificial intelligence techniques are open source and thus completely free. This is because the early approaches originated in academia, where free ...

GPUs have become a household name in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems over the last 15 years. However, programming GPUs is still largely a manual and arduous task, which requires expert ...

This add-on gathers various features for NVDA debugging and testing. This add-on uses layered commands for all of the new commands it adds. The entry point for these commands is NVDA+Z; therfore all ...

“Brian” is a popular Python-based simulator for spiking neural networks, commonly used in computational neuroscience. GeNN is a C++-based meta-compiler for accelerating spiking neural network ...

The poseidon syringe pump and microscope system is an open source alternative to commercial systems. It costs less than $400 and can be assembled in under an hour ...