MENACE, the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine, is a fancy name for a machine that plays Tic-Tac-Toe. The concept is a product of Professor [Donald Mitchie]’s work in the 1960’s and was ...

Last year, Professor Alex Schiller of Friedrich Schiller University and two of his students, Martin Elstner and Jörg Axthelm, announced that they had created a sugar-based molecular computer.

The Tic-Tac-Toe Google Chrome extension describes itself as "Play in Tic-Tac-Toe" and when you click on the icon it will open a tic tac toe game in your browser. What it does not tell you, though, is ...

Students at the Bartlett Community Partnership School in Lowell proved to be no match for “Chris,” a virtual player programmed to be unstoppable in a computer version of tic-tac-toe. “We can’t beat ...

While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now. In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for ...

A DNA computer has been developed that can play tic-tac-toe against a human and never lose. The device uses a complex mixture of DNA strands and DNA-based enzymes to determine where it should place ...

A simple computer made of DNA strands in test tubes can now play a complete game of tic-tac-toe--and will beat or draw you every time. The result demonstrates a new level of complexity in DNA ...