Two of Canada’s pioneers in artificial intelligence have claimed the world’s top prize in computer science. Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto and Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal ...

A computer program named "Eugene Goostman" has convinced a third of human judges into thinking it is a 13-year-old boy, becoming the first machine to pass the Turing test, Hannah Furness of The ...

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...

The question of who invented the first computer and when was the computer invented has a complex answer that spans centuries of innovation. Many people assume a single inventor and a specific date, ...

Although quantum computing is a nascent field, there are plenty of key moments that defined it over the last few decades as scientists strive to create machines that can solve impossible problems.

Google is getting into the business of computers that can learn after recently buying a secretive start-up called DeepMind that specializes in creating computers that mimic the human brain. Matt ...

Alan Turing, the Second World War code-breaker and pioneer of computer science with a “fearless approach to daunting problems”, will appear on the Bank of England’s next £50 note. Turing was selected ...

A computer has passed the Turing test, an artificial intelligence measure of human-like capability devised more than half a century ago, the University of Reading has announced. On Sunday, Eugene ...

Alan Turing, considered to be one of the fathers of computer science whose code-breaking work helped the Allies win the Second World War, has been given a royal pardon for his homosexuality conviction ...