Only a few months ago, IBM’s Deep Blue excited and intrigued us as it challenged the chess wizardry of Garry Kasparov. In the late 18th and first half of the 19th Century, humans were similarly ...
While stirrings and speculations around the chess-playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen are what made him most famous, his inventions and interest were much wider. This ranks him among ...
Chess is famous as perhaps the most respected board game ever played, and we often uses chess as a way to metaphorically teach lessons about the world. But as it turns out, chess is also pretty good ...
An 18th Century automaton that could beat human chess opponents seemingly marked the arrival of artificial intelligence. But what turned out to be an elaborate hoax had its own sense of genius, says ...
One or two hundred years from now, some writer will produce a study of the mania that overcame stock traders in the 1990s, when ignorance of the true capabilities of Internet technology led to wild ...
A master magic builder from California has recreated an 18th Century automaton that took Europe and America by storm. For more than 80 years, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk amazed people on ...
“Witches can only be found where there is ignorance. This man is no more capable of witchcraft than I.” With those words, Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, countered ...
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A master magic builder from California has recreated an 18th Century automaton that took Europe and America by storm. For more than 80 years, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk amazed people on ...
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