Science, Mathematics & Technology

Why cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services. Most of the informa...

How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society. Humans are hard-wired for collaboration, and new technologies of com...

A compact and accessible history, from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. Th...

A concise introduction to crowdsourcing that goes beyond social media buzzwords to explain what crowdsourcing really is and how it works. Ever sinc...

A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media. Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolin...

An accessible introduction to the history, fundamental concepts, challenges, and controversies of the fMRI by one of the pioneers in the field. The...

A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday lif...

An accessible, nontechnical overview of active touch sensing, from sensory receptors in the skin to tactile surfaces on flat screen displays. Hapti...

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. We live in an info...

A concise overview of machine learning-computer programs that learn from data-which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, fac...

A concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major player...

Taking "Gangnam Style" seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" beca...

Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" b...

Everything you always wanted to know about MOOCs: an account of massive open online courses and what they might mean for the future of higher educa...

A concise introduction to the basics of open access, describing what it is (and isn't) and showing that it is easy, fast, inexpensive, legal, and b...

An exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality. Quantum ...

An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life ...

What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. Peop...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...

A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spac...

A guided tour through the Internet of Things, a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people that is changing the way we live and work...

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence....

A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality-and how they could affect every part of our lives...