Just the Facts

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is paying universities to teach computers how to tell fact from opinion, according to United Press International. While computers can do long division in fractions of a second, they apparently fail to grasp concepts that most people master in kindergarten. The money will go to professors at Cornell University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Utah. Those researchers will use algorithms to teach computers the subtle differences between "The car is red," for example, and "Red is pretty." --Dan Carnevale