There was a time, not long ago, when computers—mere assemblages of silicon and wire and plastic that can fly planes, drive cars, translate languages, and keep failing hearts beating—could really, ...

When IBM’s Deep Blue first defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, the world chess champion accused the company of cheating. There was no way, he thought, that the computer could have beaten him without ...

It's almost 18 years since IBM's Deep Blue famously beat Garry Kasparov at chess, becoming the first computer to defeat a human world champion. Since then, as you can probably imagine, computers have ...

Director Andrew Bujalski talks about capturing an authentic vintage geek look and casting real tech heads in his fourth feature. Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was ...

Maybe it has to do with having programmed a computer in high school in the first half of the seventies—a computer the size of a double-wide fridge and covered with blinking lights. Our after-school ...

The period comedy "Computer Chess" pays homage to a time in the not-so-distant past that feels like ancient history. A time-capsule look at computer-nerd culture in 1980, Andrew Bujalski's unabashedly ...