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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On May 11, 1997, the world chess champion Garry Kasparov was defeated by an unusual player: the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue. Deep Blue made history as the first computer to beat a world champion in a ...
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 ...
Five years ago, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, stood the Eden Musee, noted for its wax figures of history’s horrible episodes and its automatic checker player. This machine, mathematically ...
It was a hot summer day in May 1827, and Johann Maelzel’s robot exhibition was not going well. Crowds had gathered inside Baltimore’s Fountain Inn on Light Street to see the star of the show, a ...
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 ...
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