Each summer, the computer-science researchers behind the world's best poker-playing robots bring their creations together for a tournament.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 22, 2016
"Are you sure they're there?" the decision maker asks. "They" are Qaeda operatives who have been planning attacks against the United States.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 22, 2016
We have been following D-Wave's claims about its quantum hardware at Ars for a number of years. Over that time, my impression has oscillated between skepticism,...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 16, 2016
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the inverse is also true: A word is worth a thousand pictures.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | February 11, 2016
Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal's...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 4, 2016
Sooner or later everything seems to go online. Newspapers. TV. Radio. Shopping. Banking. Dating.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 3, 2016
It's one thing to play the arcade game Whac-A-Mole by swinging around an oversized mallet; it's far easier to whack those moles virtually, controlling the mallet...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 2, 2016
It used to be the case when I traveled abroad that I would take a little pocket dictionary that provided translations for commonly used phrases and words.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 29, 2016
Napoleon had it and so did Charles Darwin. Tennis champion Roger Federer has it in spades. The dictionary defines intuition as knowledge obtained without conscious...Nature From ACM Opinion | January 28, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM News | January 27, 2016
Autonomous weapons experts sounded the alarm last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, cautioning that unless governments act to limit these...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2016
A new gene-editing technology has been relentlessly hyped over the past year, and it goes by a catchy if rather incongruous acronym: Crispr.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2016
One of the most exciting parts of data science is that it can be applied to many domains of knowledge, given our newfound ability to gather valuable data on almost...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2016
It was conceived after a yogurt company in 2007 identified an unexpected defense mechanism that its bacteria use to fight off viruses.Science Magazine From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2016