Simmons explores what it means to program for preferences, in robots and humans.

Three boys from the Chicago suburbs meet at a School of Rock and must overcome several challenges in order to break through a growing number of teen bands.

Before Meta started pushing avatars on Facebook, Second Life was a video game from the early 2000s that popularized avatars and virtual concerts. In this article, Suzanne Vega describes what it was like to be among the first to host a virtual concert on Second Life.