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Loved by millions around the world as a game and as a creative way to learn how to code, Minecraft will become an advanced AI playground for developers this July.

Microsoft, owner of the popular video game, revealed that computer scientists and amateurs will be able to evaluate and develop AI software using its virtual landscapes from July. The company says Minecraft is more “sophisticated”…

Sleep apnea and smartphone interfaces don’t immediately sound related but as Shyam Gollakota, a computer science professor at the University of Washington, and his fellow researchers discovered, the technology used to track the former can…

An ambitious plan is underway to give a million schoolchildren a tiny device designed to inspire them to get coding.

An artificially intelligent program developed by Google called AlphaGo has now beaten the reigning human player of the board game Go. AlphaGo joins Deep Blue and Watson, which have both overcome their human competition to…

Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech.

Scientists can now use the popular game to let artificial intelligence systems learn how to do things.

Microsoft researchers are using Project Malmo for their own research, and they have made it available to a small group of academic researchers under a private beta.

RADAR was a pioneering system for locating and tracking mobile devices using wireless LAN technology. It anticipated not only the Wi-Fi-based indoor localization solutions widely used by our mobile devices today, but also the growing…

From daily scrum meetings to six-week dedicated customer engagement exercises, the team is always engaged in making their own process better.