Murphy has the brainpower to pull it off. He tells us that in 2007 he defended his computer science Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon — which was the same year the students began holding the annual SIGBOVIK conference on April Fool’s Day. Sponsored by the “Association for Computational Heresy,” it was a kind of satirical specialContinueContinue reading “Artificial Stupidity: One Google Engineer’s Algorithms for Bad Chess Playing – The New Stack”