supercomputers
How a Computer Beat the Turing Test by Pretending to Be a 13-Year-Old Boy
AI expert Kevin Warwick told us more about how 'hip' program Eugene Goostman passed the famous test of man vs. machine.
It Took a Pair of Top Supercomputers Three Months to Simulate the Universe
8,000 computer processors running in parallel across two countries took 16 million total hours to recreate the universe.
Watson's 'Jeopardy!'-Winning Artificial Intelligence Is Now for Sale
Its game show winnings gone, IBM's Watson is turning tricks for cash.
The Future of Weather Forecasts: Cloudy With a Chance of Accuracy
Predicting how our chaotic atmosphere is going to behave is getting easier.
China Is Siccing a Record-Setting Supercomputer on Its Smog Problem
Scientists are creating a massive computer simulation to more accurately forecast smog.
Watson, the Jeopardy-Winning Computer, Will Help Doctors Fight Cancer with Data
Watson started medical school, so to speak, last fall when it started tackling different conditions with evidence-based medicine.
Titan: The Most Super of All the Supercomputers
Bow down to the Titan supercomputer, puny mortals. Because the Titan just earned the title for the world's most powerful supercomputer, and it is not fucking around. Built by Cray Inc., "the supercomputer company," and Nvidia, the Titan is the result...
George Plimpton: Nope, Supercomputers Still Can't Manage Baseball Teams or Counsel Marriages
When he learned that Garry Kasperov lost to Deep Blue, back in '97, George Plimpton wasn't nervous. He was certainly not about to cede his manly manliness to a computer, simply because it won a stupid game of chess. As he told "PBS":http://www.research...