It's no surprise, really. The name of the game in the tech industry is making interactions between people and their gizmos ever more human—and human often equals humorous. That means everything from ...

January 30, 2008 Knock, Knock, Hal's There: Teaching Computers Humor; and the 50th Anniversary of America's First Satellite In this episode, University of Cincinnati researchers Lawrence Mazlack and ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh thought they had a brilliant idea. Could they turn a computer into a witty comic? They wrote a software program that mimics the most basic form of humor, the ...

It’s the week after Christmas, and we finally got (a little) holiday snow in Michigan. My family went sledding this afternoon, and my son got to try out his new snowboard. I’m home with the family now ...