Informatics

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to American physicist John Joseph Hopfield and Canadian-British computer scientist Geoffrey Everest Hinton. Although the prize was awarded in physics, the justification reads that it was based on ‘discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning through artificial neural networks’, which is clearly associated with computer science.

California, the beginning of the 1970s. Through rooms of the Stanford Research Institute slowly glides Shakey - the first ever mobile robot programmed with artificial intelligence algorithms that allow it to plan its actions in order to achieve its goals.

One of the main goals of film makers is to make motion pictures that attract the largest audiences. There is a straightforward relation between how popular a movie is and how big the box office revenues are (in 2015, $38 billion).