Thursday, February 10, 2011

Powers Writes Epilogue for New Book



Powers has contributed the epilogue for the newly-published volume, Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, from the University of Chicago Press. The volume includes essays by "leading American and European scholars, scientists, and artists—including Charles Bernstein, Ian Foster, Bruno Latour, Alan Liu, and Richard Powers—to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies are transforming the ways we think and act."

Sunday, February 6, 2011

NY Times Op-Ed piece: "What is Artificial Intelligence?"


Powers has a piece in today's NY Times on the upcoming match between Watson, the computerized Jeopardy player, vs. two real-world Jeopardy champions. Echoes of Galatea 2.2!