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I cried. I could not feel. My body went numb. I told her, shes gone. She is gone. She was a beautiful young mom doing important work. She was a specialist. Some of her work was top secret . I believe she had topsecret clearance. Did her work cost her her life . Did she come into a lot of money she could not explain . Was she selling secrets . Maybe. What about other secrets . We knew they were having issues. Before they got married, she found out he was cheating. There was a Stranger Keeping Sec...

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Hans Moravec argues that computers will soon outperform human intellects. The visceral sense of a thinking presence in machinery will become increasingly widespread.

Rules needed now to prevent danger, says Schaeffer

Rules needed now to prevent danger, says Schaeffer

Checkers, also called draughts, board game, one of the world’s oldest games. Checkers is played by two persons who oppose each other across a board of 64 light and dark squares, the same as a chessboard. The 24 playing pieces are disk-shaped and of contrasting colours (whatever their colours, they are identified as black and white). At the start of the game, each contestant has 12 pieces arranged on the board. While the actual playing is always done on the dark squares, the board is often sho...

The 2022 International Computer Games Association events are fast approaching: the World Computer Chess Championships (Vienna, July 23-29), the 2022 Computer Olympiad (online, July 23-29), and the 2022 Computers and Games conference (online, November 22-24). The ICGA has distributed full information on all upcoming events.

Oliver Roeder, MS ’09, PhD ’13, has always been an avid games player. His new book, Seven Games: A Human History, reveals why we still play—and obsesses over—seven classic games.

A handful of artificial intelligence-based tools has radically remade the way poker is played, especially at the highest levels of the game.

In “Seven Games: A Human History,” Oliver Roeder presents a study of checkers, backgammon, chess, Go, poker, Scrabble and bridge — and asks why we play.