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 ...

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 ...

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 ...