Scientists have deciphered the brain signals associated with handwriting. This is an Inside Science story. A man paralyzed below the neck can imagine writing by hand and, with the help of artificial ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. For decades, a ...

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 ...

Education activists are increasingly becoming concerned about the computer grading of written portions of new Common Core tests. Can a computer really grade written work as well as a human being? Here ...

Could a writing robot make novelists obsolete? It might not happen anytime soon, but then again, it might. In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is ...

Scott French, a freelance author and computer enthusiast, never met the late Jacqueline Susann, author of such steamy best sellers as ”Valley of the Dolls” and ”Once Is Not Enough.” But French has ...

As you know if you teach at a U.S. public school – or even if you just read the June 2013 New York Times feature about it – a consortium of state boards of education recently decided that we should ...

When Vikram Chandra mentioned he was working on a nonfiction book about computer coding at a literary party in San Francisco last fall, I was startled. Chandra is a gifted and original novelist, ...

For decades, a stubborn truth has dogged efforts to create automated writing assessment tools, aka roboreaders: Computers are stupid. True, their digital brains can process torrents of data in ...