As mentioned already on this site and others, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed British mathematician Alan Turing.
The outline of his remarkable life and sad ending has by now…
Anything could happen if we don't teach machines to be "good".
KennethMoyle
Predicting the future is a risky business. If it wasn’t, we’d all be very wealthy by now. The Danish physicist Neils Bohr famously opined: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future…
Our present achievements will look like child's play in a few years.
Rinoninha
What do iPhones, Twitter, Netflix, cleaner cities, safer cars, state-of-the-art environmental management and modern medical diagnostics have in common? They are all made possible by Moore’s Law.
Moore…
Momentum is gathering behind calls to pardon the father of computer science.
BinaryApe
You may have read the British Government is being petitioned to grant a posthumous pardon to one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and most successful codebreakers, Alan Turing. You may also have…
