Is Paris Hilton a celebrity socialite or a hotel in France? The answer depends upon the context, perhaps from a Web page, magazine article, or other source. A normal search engine can’t tell the ...

If your computer has never crashed, it's because it has been built on another planet. The microprocessors we use are faster and more complex year after year, increasing the risks of being hit by ...

Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined win at chess, predict the weather and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining ...

Photo: Peter Fox, the principal investigator for the project and Senior Constellation Professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer. Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...