Paul says: “Magic is about computation and computer science is about computation. With magic, you’re doing the computation by moving cards around [instead of manipulating computer data].

Flickr user Steve. Forget lightning speed calculations, technological superiority and machine-like precision. Thanks to the efforts of some researchers, artificial intelligence can now create magic.

Another day, another human profession threatened by the inevitable robot uprising. This time, it's magicians in the firing line. A computer has been taught how to make its own magic tricks using ...

Hash tables are among the most thoroughly studied data structures in all of computer science; the advance sounded too good to be true. But just to be sure, he asked a frequent collaborator (and a ...