Why we have to get smart about artificial intelligence – The Guardian
The GuardianWhy we have to get smart about artificial intelligenceThe GuardianIn 2014 we saw a computer pass the Turing test – its responses in a series of text conversations convinced 30% of human interrogators that it was human. We see AI in everyday life. Examples include Apple's Siri and Microsoft's … Last year, Google …and more »
Solution to Simplest Poker Game Is Just the Beginning (Carnegie Mellon )
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A University of Alberta research group, headed by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science (SCS) alumnus Michael Bowling, reports in the Jan. 9 issue of Science that it has essentially solved the game of two-player limit Texas Hold'em poker, which CMU's Tuomas Sandholm says marks a significant milestone in solving imperfect-information games.
In a Perspectives article also published by Science, Sandholm noted that tremendous progress has been made in the last 10 years in solving imperfect- information games, in which players must make decisions despite not having all of the information they might need or want.
Though two-player limit Texas Hold'em is among the simplest of poker games, the strategy developed by Bowling's group "is so close to optimal that, at the pace a human plays poker, it cannot be beaten with statistical significance in a lifetime," Sandholm wrote. "This is, to my knowledge, the largest imperfect- information game essentially solved to date, and the first one competitively played by humans that has now been essentially solved."
Sandholm, professor of computer science, is an active researcher in this area, developing poker programs that compete in the Annual Computer Poker Competition at the …
Information Security Awareness PSA: "For Their Inconvenience"
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The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC), along with EDUCAUSE and Internet2, held its annual Information Security Awareness Video & Poster Contest, an event that allows college students to win prizes, gain experience, and earn recognition by creating a PSA about information security.
HEISC works to improve information security & privacy programs across the higher education sector.
Collin Monda and Morgan Redfield of the University of Washington received honorable mention for their PSA entry, "For Their Inconvenience."
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QinetiQ hosts latest Cyber Security Challenge competition – ComputerWeekly.com
ComputerWeekly.comQinetiQ hosts latest Cyber Security Challenge competitionComputerWeekly.comThe winners were awarded a variety of cyber security learning tools including a microprocessor and cyber security textbooks, and Amazon vouchers to spend on new computing equipment. “I learned a lot from today's experience,” said Mark Cole – the …
