The term “artificial intelligence” wascoined in 1956by computer scientist John McCarthy for a workshop at Dartmouth. But he wasn’t the first to write about the concepts we now describe as AI. Alan Turing introduced the concept of the “imitation game” in a 1950 paper. That’s the tes...
“It does this for right answers, too, because that right prediction may have only had, say, a 30% certainty, but that 30% was the most of all the other possible answers,” Thompson said. “So, backpropagation seeks to turn that 30% into 30.001%, or something like that.” ...
Alex Panas and Kelsey Robinson are senior partners in McKinsey’s Boston office, Asutosh Padhi is a senior partner in the Chicago office, Ida Kristensen is a senior partner in the New York office, John Kelleher is a senior partner in the Toronto office, Stephan Görner is a senior partner...
“cloud computing” in a business plan. The term was new, but the concepts behind it had already taken root. Technological developments in the 1970s and 1980s used early versions of the cloud, for example. And by the early 1990s, the internet already appeared as a cloud in patent ...
"Here in Chicago, our mission remains the same," she wrote. "During the convention, we will have an opportunity to show the country and the world who Democrats are and what we stand for." President Biden is expected to give a prime-time speech on the first night of the DNC convention...
Isaiah Moore, a senior atColumbia College Chicago, notes that "everyone's activism looks different." Moore has recently been involved with protests against raising tuition at CCC amid the coronavirus pandemic. In high school, Moore was active in causes such as police brutality and mass incarceratio...
“After graduation from high school, I would like to further my studies in China,” he said.Robert Davis, director of the Chinese-language program in Chicago's public school system, may give you a hint. “Chinese isn't the new French. It's the new English, which is widely used all ...
Chicago Bulls What to watch:Robin LopezandJabari Parker Editor's note (update): Parkerwas traded to the Wizardsalong with Bobby Portis for Otto Porter on Wednesday The Bulls are once again headed for the draft lottery and they fired their head coach midseason. That -- plus the play of ...
for example,inflation began to run so highthat the Federal Reserve started an aggressive rate-hike cycle that essentially pushed the economy toward recession. As bad as a recession might be, the thinking went, inflation was an even worse enemy. For the Fed, it was basically a case of “pic...
(Commodity futures trading was effectively birthed at what became the Chicago Board of Trade, where grain merchants gathered starting about 1848 to buy and sell early versions of grain futures contracts.) Crude oil is currently the world’s most actively traded commodity, according to ICE, with ...