In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modeling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic ...

It's a milestone that leaves parents beaming with pride: the first time their child shakily writes out their own name. And it ...

Providing children with a variety of novel and fun writing materials leads to increased motivation and enjoyment of writing.

I take issue with Douglas Rooks’ oversimplification of Maine’s National Assessment of Education (NAEP) reading scores as a “progressive education” vs. “back to basics” debate (“Maine Department of ...

Levi Y. Shmotkin didn’t set out to write a book when he began poring through the correspondence of the Rebbe,Menachem Mendel ...

Lucknow Super Giants spinner Digvesh Singh Rathi was fined for his 'letter-writing' celebration after dismissing Punjab Kings' Priyansh Arya. The unusual gesture led to a 25% match fee penalty and ...

The panel discussion, featuring local authors, guest scholars and UB faculty members, is part of a series of events that also ...

I had an epiphany last night and woke up with an idea that could kill three birds with one stone. We could instantly stop the war in Ukraine and fulfill Donald Trump’s thirst for adding new land to th ...

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, a Champaign County Republican who was a star high school and college wrestler, accompanied President Donald Trump to the NCAA men’s wrestling ...

Readers respond to Kelefa Sanneh’s Profile of Mike White, Lawrence Wright’s article about the spiritual alliance between nuns and women on Texas’s death row, and Kathryn Schulz’s review of “The Lives ...

Letters include taking the path of truth and liberty over misinformed opinions; and why Limoneira's recent decision to stay ...

In the summer of 2022, a married couple, John and Rita Reed’s collection of letters, personal and military diaries and ...