Checkers champions, meet your match. An invincible checkers-playing program named Chinook has solved a game whose origins date back several millennia, scientists reported Thursday on the journal ...

Computers have figured out how to win at chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe, and now, a computer program has conquered the game of poker. A research team led by Michael Bowling, a professor of computer ...

The first program most people learn to write in any computer language is called Hello World. Its sole function is to display those two words on the screen. But the act of writing and then running ...

Big data drives many of today’s business decisions, which makes knowledge of computer science and business invaluable for tech startups, IT consulting, investment banking and more. Leeds students have ...

Can a computer think for itself? We can use computers and other digital devices to do lots of different things. We can send messages, go shopping, watch a video or play a game. Many of the machines ...

If you thought IBM’s chess-playing computer, Deep Blue, was impressive, this is going to blow you away. Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has been solved. Pitted one-on-one against the world’s best ...