To ensure that wooden constructions are sufficiently stable, timber must first be graded according to its strength. Machines for this already exist, but they are rarely used in Europe as current EU ...

Les Perelman, a former director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sits in his wife’s office and reads aloud from his latest essay. “Privateness has not been and ...

Les Perelman, the former director of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for taking on the writing test of SAT, is challenging a well-publicized study that claims machines can ...

While automated essay-grading machines can tackle 16,000 essays in 20 seconds, are they any good compared to a human? Online course administrators in the machine camp think so, but retired MIT prof ...

One of the most closely-watched conundrums of online education is how best to approximate traditional on-premise teaching methods. Grading multiple choice and short answer exam questions is ...

In 1999, John Kuersten and his wife purchased a small concrete business in Rifle, Colo., on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Since then, they have built Kuersten Construction into a ...

MP state government has finally come forward to extend some assistance to the garlic farmers by installing grading machines in mandis, encouraging them to follow group agriculture practice (GAP) and ...

(CNN) No one thinks twice about using machines to grade multiple-choice tests. For decades, teachers – and students – have trusted technology to accurately decipher which bubble was filled in on a ...