James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. While Neo slugs it out with Agent Smith on the silver screen, chess champ Garry Kasparov is about to face off ...
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google’s parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers of chess. A year earlier, on ...
Who was [Leonardo Torres Quevedo]? Not exactly a household name, but as [IEEE Spectrum] points out, he invented a chess automaton in 1920 that would foreshadow the next century’s obsession with ...
In the spring of 1997, a supercomputer built by a team of IBM scientists stunned the world by beating grandmaster Garry Kasparov, considered one of the greatest chess players in history. Deep Blue, as ...
Set sometime in the ’80s, mumblecore maven Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature, Computer Chess, is an adventurous and peculiar period piece. Chronicling a tournament of computers competing in chess and ...
HAIFA, Israel --As world chess champion Victor Kramnik sat down to play the Deep Fritz chess program in Bahrain this week, Haifa University held a two-day symposium to address one question: What's the ...
Gaby Wood, a writer for the Observer in London, is the author of "Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life" (2002, Alfred A. Knopf). Some days ago in New York City, Garry ...
Homo faber, man the maker. From the invention of the wheel to the glory and nightmare of today's technology, humans have been artificers. In this role of creator, humanity has both usurped and ...
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