Wolfram Alpha is a computer designed to, one day, know everything. Russell Foltz-Smith thinks Wolfram Alpha will be a valuable tool in future classrooms that will lead to a new form of literacy called computational thinking.

Corinne Hyde teaches online at USC Rossier Online from her home in small-town Louisiana. She's convinced web-based learning can be just as enriching as learning in a brick and mortar classroom.

Micah Lande is an Engineering professor at Arizona State University who's a firm believer in learning-by-way of making through the use of makerspaces where students gather to create, invent, and learn using industrial equipment traditionally not accessible to students until they reach the workplace.

Automated Insights, supplies major news outlets with software called Wordsmith. Chief Operating Officer, Adam Smith explains how it works.

Former newspaper reporter Joel Kaplan watched in horror as his beloved industry imploded while working as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Now he's more optimistic than ever that the news industry is adapting and starting to embrace the technical disruptions that once threatened its existence.

In Dickson Despommier's future city you might shop for your fruit and vegetables by entering a skyscraper. Partly because of the environmental imperative, and partly because the food actually tastes great and stays fresher longer. Join Dickson for lunch...

The average Los Angeleno spends about 104 hours in traffic every year and Ashley Hand, of CityFi is determined to cut down that average with a few "smart" solutions up her sleeve.

Secure passwords are hard to remember. Nick Merrill and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's BioSense Lab are working on a new approach to security using pass thought authentication methods for device access.

The best way to fight the growing cybersecurity threat is by outsmarting the people behind these threats. Educator Attilio Bonaccorso is teaching his students to catch up in a series of in-class war games. Let the games begin...

Eric Rice is a self-professed data convert who has used machine-driven algorithms to uplift LA's homeless youth.