John McCarthy, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 84

A funny thing happened on the way to creating an IBM supercomputer capable of understanding human language: A research scientist accidentally filled its vocabulary with foul language.

Entrepreneur Lars Hard feels he has seen the future of search, information gathering and the web in general, and it is artificial intelligence. Computational intelligence, to put it more succinctly: the ability to gather information or find your destination on the web faster and more efficiently with an artificial search partner that can predict what ...

Mr. Morris, once chief scientist of the National Security Agency’s computer security center, helped plan electronic attacks on Saddam Hussein’s government.

What's going to be Apple's Next Killer product? Not a new iPhone - Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring, is seeing his world explode, in a good way. Since the emergence of Siri, the world has awoken to the realities of how artificial intelligence will take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives. Spring, who’s been building his [...]

We continue our series on the emerging role of the data scientist, by talking to Pat Hanrahan, chief scientist and co-founder of Tableau Software. Hanrahan received a PhD in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin in 1985 and joined the faculty at Princeton University in 1989. In the late 1980s he worked for Digital Equipment Corp. and directed the 3D computer graphics laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology. At Stanford University since 1996, he is now the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.