Andrew Barto and his former graduate student Richard Sutton honored with Turing Award as pioneers of reinforcement learning Amherst, Mass. — Andrew G. Barto, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

The tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a brain just about the width of a human hair. Yet this animal’s itty-bitty organ coordinates and computes complex movements as the worm forages for food. “When ...

UB faculty member Siwei Lyu wears many hats. Educator. Computer scientist. Detector of deepfakes and other digital forgeries. And now … technical consultant to the film industry. Lyu, SUNY Empire ...

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One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Andrew Barto, a retired University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientist and professor, and former doctoral student Richard Sutton have been announced as co-recipients of the Turing Award. They ...

For more than a quarter of a century since its release, 'The Matrix' has fueled modern fears that life is not all it seems. But according to a scientist, the classic movie's premise may not be ...

Harry Huskey, above, was a young mathematician building the SWAC computer when he was a contestant on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life radio show. In this audio recording of the May 10, 1950 episode, ...