Early last December, two days after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the married couple’s landlord...Wired From ACM News | March 30, 2016
The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was a statement—not so much to professional...The New York Times From ACM News | March 28, 2016
The New Yorker magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms to mine a massive volume of cartoon caption submissions to identify the funniest captions. CNet From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2016
Researchers consider how to adapt broadly available technology products for those battling physical impairments.Keith Kirkpatrick From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2016
Marvin Minsky, an American scientist who co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI laboratory and was honored with the ACM A.M. Turing Award, passed...Lawrence M. Fisher From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2016
The victory of Google DeepMind's AlphaGo algorithm over a champion Go player is seen as a resurgence for deep learning. Maclean's From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2016
Cryptozoic Entertainment is working to reimagine how people play video games with computer-controlled opponents. Motherboard From ACM TechNews | March 22, 2016
Google’s Go-playing computer system has beaten one of the world’s top players in the first game of a five-game match in Seoul. From ACM News | March 9, 2016
The Pentagon is inviting vetted hackers to the Hack the Pentagon initiative, the U.S. government's first "bug bounty" program. Government Computer News From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2016
Carnegie Mellon University's Pokerbot won first place at the Annual Computer Poker Competition in the total bankroll category. Tartan Online (Carnegie Mellon niversity) From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2016
A team of University of Victoria students took first place at the third annual BattleSnake competition hosted by the university.The Ring (niversity of Victoria) From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2016
Clear Channel Outdoor—one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the U.S.—is starting a new program called Radar that will use billboards to map real-world...NPR From ACM News | March 2, 2016
Not long after Defense Secretary Ash Carter prodded his cyber commanders to be more aggressive in the fight against Islamic State, the U.S. ramped up its offensive...The Associated Press From ACM News | February 29, 2016
The allure of building superior poker-playing computer programs is the chance to tackle the challenge of dealing with missing information. The Atlantic From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2016
Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...The Guardian From ACM News | February 16, 2016
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).Nautilus From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2016