The birth of a field – and a problematic name The Dartmouth Conference didn’t just coin the term “artificial intelligence”; it coalesced an entire field of study. It’s like a mythical Big Bang of AI – everything we know about machine learning, neural networks and deep learning now traces its origins back to that summer in New Hampshire. But here’s …
Twelve-year-old Spencer Gordon was having a sleepover with his best friend, Jared, in his Northridge home on Jan. 17, 1994, when he was woken up by what he could only describe as an unrelenting boom. “It was just absolutely terrifying.” Gordon and his Northridge City Little League teammates now remember that summer as the time their world was turned upside …
to 'Blade Runner,' how the summer of 1982 changed cinema forever In 1982, eight science fiction films were released within eight weeks of each other. In the summer of 1982, my guest today, entertainment writer Chris Nashawaty, was a 13-year-old burgeoning film geek, who spent the entire summer that year in movie theaters watching eight feature films that would go …
Editor’s Note: This story is included in The Athletic’s Best of 2022. It was less the summer home of a millionaire coach and closer to a caricature of The Land of 10,000 Lakes, where house numbers are replaced by signs featuring that family’s name, where grills are fired up nightly because there are no restaurants within 20 miles and where …
Wales ended a 58-year wait to reach a major tournament by qualifying for Euro 2016, in an instant releasing all the angst of the near misses that had stacked up since the 1958 World Cup. In their own words, this is the story of Wales at Euro 2016 featuring: Chris Coleman, manager Ashley Williams, captain and defender Gareth Bale, forward …
