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Imagine a religion that believes that one day, soon, the deity "Gai" will appear. This deity (demon?) will destroy all humanity. T...

I just finished reading this excellent history of early digital computing , disguised as a biography of computing researcher and visionary J...

I thought I would try to very briefly state the research vision that has in some incarnation animated me since I started doing research almo...

Aren't we done with games yet? Some would say that while games were useful for AI research for a while, our algorithms have mastered the...

As the end of the pandemic draws near, one of the many things I am excited about is to be able to go to physical conferences again. A year o...

When Copernicus explained how the earth revolves around the sun rather than the other way around, he figuratively dethroned humanity. Earth,...

It is a common trope that we might one day develop artificial intelligence that is so smart that it starts improving itself. The AI thus bec...

1956: Logic Theorist . Arguably, pure mathematics is the crowning achievement of human thought. Now we have a machine that can prove new mat...

I've been to both the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) and IEEE Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) m...