Of all the things to make a movie out of, why a bunch of computer science geeks trying to make a program that can beat a human at chess? Writer, director and editor Andrew Bujalski’s one-of-a-kind ...

Now that everyone of means walks around with a pocket computer that can access most human knowledge in a matter of seconds, it might be tough for some to recall a time in which computing was the ...

Andrew Bujalski's funny, monochrome tale of the shabby beginnings of digital technology, shown at the Berlin film festival, is unique Anyone disappointed by the authenticity of the Steve Jobs biopic ...

With Computer Chess, Andrew Bujalski, the American indie auteur known for no-budget gems Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation, has made a profoundly idiosyncratic and strangely offbeat movie about a ...

In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the ...

Andrew Bujalski is neither a computer whiz nor a chess genius. “I was never any good at chess, never had the discipline to get better, and don’t have any openings memorized or anything like that. Any ...

When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is “The Turk.” In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat ...

It was a pivotal moment in computing history when a computer beat a human at chess for the first time, but that doesn't mean chess is "solved." Pixabay On this day 21 years ago, the world changed ...