Nearly 60 years ago, Alan Turing showed theoretically how two chemical species, termed morphogens, diffusing and reacting with each other can generate spatial patterns. Diffusion plays a crucial part ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...

IN 1935, Alan Turing set out to build a reputation by outflanking the world’s leading mathematician. Turing was 22 years old, and a new fellow at Cambridge. His target, David Hilbert, was the ...

In March 1935, the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote a letter to his wife about an exceptional young mind he had encountered at the University of Cambridge’s King’s College. “I had to lunch today ...

In today’s column, I will be continuing my ongoing analysis of how generative AI is making an impact in mental health therapy advisement. One question that I often get asked while speaking at ...

DURING the 20th century, any book calling itself The Turing Guide would have been inconceivable. But in 2017 we have a massive and extraordinarily wide-ranging volume about the life, work and ...