Paul Hyman

In the year of disruptive education

As college tuitions soar, various online models vie to educate college students worldwide---at no cost.

Software aims to ensure fairness in crowdsourcing projects

The debate rages on about whether crowdsourcing is a win-win for workers, as well as for employers.

Augmented-reality glasses bring cloud security into sharp focus

The possibility of a new

Speech-to-speech translations stutter, but researchers see mellifluous future

200-billion-plus industry has cloud security experts bracing for the ramifications.

Software helps linguists reconstruct, decipher ancient languages

The practical need for accurate instant or simultaneous machine translations continues to grow as applications multiply.

Stanford schooling---gratis!

Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.

Dennis Ritchie, 1941--2011

Stanford Universitys experiment with online classes could help transform computer science education.

John McCarthy, 1927--2011

Colleagues recall the creator of C and codeveloper Unix, an unassuming but brilliant man who enjoyed playing practical jokes on his coworkers.

A workshop revival

Winner of the 1971 A.M. Turing Award, John McCarthy was a founder of artificial intelligence and inventor of the Lisp programming language.

An influential theoretician

The success of Germanys Dagstuhl Seminars has inspired a proliferation of Dagstuhl-like venues, especially in India.