A world of self-improving machines has lived in fiction for more than a century. What gives that old fear new force now is ...

From a pair of simple principles of evolution--chance mutation and natural selection--nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, ...

The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...

This chapter discusses the structural design context for materials selection, the materials selection process, the evolution of computer systems that support the design process, and the needs for ...