Long before Demis Hassabis pioneered artificial intelligence techniques to earn a Nobel prize, he was a master of board games ...

Demis Hassabis, Britain’s recent Nobel laureate in Chemistry, has a unique background combining video games and artificial ...

The 48-year-old said he was "overwhelmed" by the honour. He will share the prize with Americans David Baker and John Jumper.

He is the child from North London who built a multi-million technology company, sold it to Google and is now widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence.

At least a decade ahead of expectations, Demis Hassabis and his team at DeepMind created AlphaGo, a software program that defeated Lee Sedol, one of the world's best players, at the complex game ...

British computer scientist Sir Demis Hassabis awarded chemistry Nobel prize - London-born Sir Demis founded the AI start-up ...

Sir Demis Hassabis said they should be encouraged to create and programme. The co-founder and boss of Google's DeepMind himself grew up playing chess and gaming. Google bought his firm for a ...

Previous Nobel Peace Prize recipients include Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai (2014); President Barack Obama (2009); ...

Before DeepMind's Demis Hassabis became a leading figure in AI, he was a chess master who had won multiple world championships. So Hassabis arrived for a party at the home of veteran Silicon ...

I write about the big picture of artificial intelligence. David Baker (University of Washington), Demis Hassabis (DeepMind) and George Church (Harvard) have ... [+] helped pioneer the field of AI ...

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “We Are Anonymous.” This essay is an edited excerpt ...

And arguably no company is pushing the boundaries of A.I. as far and as fast the one Hassabis leads: DeepMind. Owned by Google-parent Alphabet, DeepMind is more research skunkworks than business ...