By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Essentially any task a human brain can do in roughly one second processing time can now by replicated by a machine. Machines can recognise people, transcribe between languages, esthetic interpretation, make predictions. What we have today is something of a revolution, leading us towards intuitive intelligence is a force moving us to the next revolution. Increasing human intelligence, as most geniuses are alive today. Read more...
76 jobs under threat at Telford College of Arts and Technology
The college in Wellington, which employs about 480 staff, will be offering voluntary redundancies to reduce the need for compulsory redundancies. More...
Art students: share your end-of-year artwork
As the academic year draws to a close, art students are putting the finishing touches to their projects. We want you to share the results of your endeavours with the rest of the Guardian Students community. More...
When Stories Collide
Humanities at the Airport
Christopher Schaberg explores what, if anything, academe can do about the distinct knots of negativity that airports have become known for. More...
The Dehumanities
Many humanists have difficulty presenting their case because they are used to speaking one way among themselves and another way to outsiders, argue Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro. More...
Theater Classics, Contemporary Sensibilities
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Native American walkout from the University of Wyoming’s production of The Fantasticks illustrates challenges facing college drama. More...
Degree Plus?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University of Utah’s new certificate program raises a question: Do students with liberal arts degrees need more to get a job. More...
Second Chance for Fallen Philosopher
By Colleen Flaherty. Anna Stubblefield was a respected philosopher at Rutgers before she was accused and convicted of raping an intellectually and physically disabled man she’d promised to help communicate. Now she’s getting a retrial. More...
Women's College Scholars Ask Mills Not to Cut Philosophy
By Colleen Flaherty. With the future of Mills College’s philosophy department threatened, more than two dozen philosophers from other women’s colleges are asking Mills to abandon a plan to lay off two tenured professors and shutter the unit. More...