CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

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As modern technologies such as artificial intelligence grab today’s headlines, it’s worth remembering that their foundations were being laid more than half a century ago by computer scientists, ...

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If you just found out about Generation Alpha, brace yourself for a new crop of kids set to debut on Jan. 1. Generation Beta will start arriving in 2025 — and some experts predict they will be immersed ...

At the recent BayLearn 2015 (Bay Area Machine Learning Symposium), Jeff Dean of Google presented “Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer Systems” for one of the keynotes. The talk’s ...