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Robert S. Boyd, who writes about science and technology, has worked at the Washington Bureau for more than 40 years, 20 of them as bureau chief, writing about politics and government. He shared a Pulitzer Prize with Clark Hoyt for revealing mental illness in the background of Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Thomas Eagleton.
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Battle of chips: Computer beats human experts at poker
By Robert S. Boyd | McClatchy Newspapers
Human pride took a hit 11 years ago when IBM's Big Blue computer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Now it's poker players' turn to be humiliated by a machine. A computer system called Polaris outperformed some of the world's top players last weekend at a human-vs.-machine competition in Las Vegas. The score was computer 3, humans 2, with one draw. » read more
Posted on Thu, July 10, 2008
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