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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

You may often find yourself trying to achieve grade in very tight quarters. This is where compact track loaders (CTLs) and large skid-steer loaders can earn their keep. "For many site prep jobs, 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 ...

A little over 10 years ago in this space, I wrote a manifesto in the form of a list against the use of algorithmic grading of human writing. The occasion was the announcement that MOOC provider edX ...