KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A local after school program celebrated the opening of their new space Saturday. Go! After School Programs threw an indoor block party for kids of all ages to introduce them to the ...

The game of Go has long been viewed as the most challenging of classic games for artificial intelligence owing to its enormous search space and the difficulty of evaluating board positions and moves.

TOKYO, JAPAN ---Rémi Coulom is sitting in a rolling desk chair, hunched over a battered Macbook laptop, hoping it will do something no machine has ever done. That may take another ten years or so, but ...

Since the 1990s computers have continually gotten better at beating us at our own games like chess, checkers, poker and Jeopardy!. But there is one game at which expert human players continue to ...

As a leading go player falls to a machine, artificial intelligence takes a decisive step on the road to overtaking the natural variety As I write this column, a computer program called AlphaGo is ...

March 2016 sees AlphaGo face its next professional opponent, the world's top Go player Lee Sedol. Follow the match here. A computer has beaten a human professional for the first time at Go — an ...