In 1936 Howard Aiken, a graduate student at Harvard University, decided to create a programmable computer inspired by the 19th-century work of English mathematician Charles Babbage. In 1939 Aiken ...

Charles Babbage, the inventor of the modern computer ... Later, these efforts shifted to Bletchley Park, and Alan Turing became an important figure in the decipherment of the Enigma through ...

In 1842, after hearing about Babbage’s machine idea ... so it was published. A century later, Alan Turing used her work to create the first computer. Marion Donovan invented waterproof diapers. She ...

Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — including assisting in the building of LLMs for OpenAI and others, as well as creating generative AI apps for ...

On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest society of computing professionals, announced that Dr. Barto and Dr. Sutton had won this year’s Turing Award for ...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton have won the 2024 Turing award, which is often called the Nobel prize of computing, for their fundamental work on ideas in machine learning that later proved ...

Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the ...

Andrew Barto (left) and Richard Sutton (right). Courtesy Association for Computing Machiner This year’s Turing Award, an honor often dubbed the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” goes to two A.I ...

Roberta Babbage, known to all as Bobbie, daughter of Alfred and Pearl Angle and beloved wife to Jim and mother to Pam, Jimmy, Wendy, and Laurie, grandmother to eight grandchildren and sister to ...