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 ...
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the ...
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 ...
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 ...