Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...
SUMMIT — Joseph Henry Condon, an experimental physicist and engineer, died on January 2 at the age of 76. He, in partnership with Ken Thompson, created Belle, a pioneering combination of computer and ...
Director Andrew Bujalski talks about capturing an authentic vintage geek look and casting real tech heads in his fourth feature. Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was ...
A long standing record for the smallest amount of code required to implement a fully-playable game of computer chess has been broken this week. Demo scene group Red Sector released BootChess, which is ...
In a day and age when major game releases can clog up 65 gigabytes of hard drive space or more, it’s nice to know that classic game design doesn’t require nearly ...
When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...
Chess enthusiasts watch World Chess champion Garry Kasparov on a television monitor as he holds his head in his hands at the start of the sixth and final match 11 May against IBM\'s Deep Blue computer ...
It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...