From AI researchers to programmers, inventors to open-source advocates, these remarkable individuals bettered the world ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

A 12-year-old Sarnia girl, who taught herself computer programming at the Lambton County Library, has placed second in the ...

Abstract: This paper demonstrates the use of genetic algorithms for evolving: 1) a grandmaster-level evaluation function, and 2) a search mechanism for a chess program, the parameter values of which ...

Chess was first invented in India around the 6th century AD. The early version of this game was called Chaturanga, a Sanskrit word that means “four divisions of the army”. These divisions stood for ...

Over the last couple of years, the world has been gripped by a Y2K-esque paranoia of a different kind: wondering if artificial intelligence will become all-conquering. Garry Kasparov, former world ...

But last weekend, it lost a game of chess. Not to a human grandmaster or even to some other fancy AI. It lost to an Atari 2600 that first appeared in the 1970s and can only calculate one or two chess ...

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Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind. As a child, Hassabis became a chess champion, competing in international tournaments. Hassabis credits chess with leading to an interest in programming ...