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When it comes to chess, computers seem to have nothing left to prove. Since IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, advances in artificial intelligence have made chess-playing computers more and more formidable. No human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in 15 years. In new research, a team including Jon Kleinberg, the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science, developed an artificially intelligent chess engine that doesn’t necessarily seek to be...

Microsoft Research Asia develops OpenNetLab with university partners Microsoft Microsoft Research Asia has partnered with several universities in Asia to develop OpenNetLab. Described as a “network research community project”, OpenNetLab aims to promote the application and development of artificial intelligence.  Microsoft says that the initiative will provide researchers with a “universal distributed network testing platform and real network evaluation datasets” to create a “healthy...

Over the four years of the Trump presidency, social media platforms generally took a soft line in enforcing their policies against threats and misinformation, allowing most borderline speech to stand.

Games - News Theyre apparently making a third reports UK game biz news site MCV. Chris Casamassa, who played Scorpion in the 1995 original film, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune that "hes set to start filming the third Mortal Kombat film in September." Looks like Sony may be just as frustrated with their current situation as gamers are, as both sides of the battle are steadfast in their beliefs over the PS3s current price tag. In terms of a price cut, gamers have loudly shouted "Yea", while ...

Ahead of Inauguration Day, tech platforms display a new willingness to take action against accounts spreading misinformation or advocating violence.

Ahead of Inauguration Day, tech platforms display a new willingness to take action against accounts spreading misinformation or advocating violence.

Mary L. Gray. © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation- used with permission. by CARMEN SIERING The MacArthur Fellows Program offers a $625,000 “genius grant” to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the potential for making future advances. The program is highly selective and rather secretive. It’s also kind of sneaky. The announcement is made each fall, but recipients find out they have joined the elite group only slightly sooner than the rest of the worl...

 E-Mail ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, computer graphics, computational biology, data science, human-computer interaction, software engineering, theoretical computer science, and virtual reality, among other areas. The accomplishments of the 2020 ACM Fellows have driven innovations that ushered in significant improvements across many areas ...

January 13, 2021 Looking like an extravagant Halloween decoration, the sophisticated robot, which has artificial eyes and a Jason-like facemask, is controlled by an X-box controller and uses simulated facial features to test the eye-tracking devices. When people are set to receive eye-tracking technology, they are facing devastating challenges: Neurodegenerative disease, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), leads to progressive muscle weakness and paralysis. As patients lose their abili...

U.S. patent rankings: Amazon moves up list as effects from pandemic on innovation still unknown January 12, 2021 at 11:26 am A diagram shows Amazon’s patented whip-based launch system in operation on an aircraft carrier. The system could theoretically send payloads into space on the end of a miles-long whip, guided by a phalanx of drones attached to the lash. (Amazon Illustration via USPTO) Despite a global pandemic, U.S. patent grants were down less than 1% year-over-year, and patent applica...