Word puzzles may go the way of chess and Jeopardy! next weekend at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn.Human prowess at chess -- with world champion Garry Kasparov as its ...

While Dr. Fill was not eligible for the $3,000 first prize, it did attempt the championship puzzle. The human champion, Tyler Hinman, plowed through it in an ungodly fast three minutes.

Paging Dr. Fill: Computer Takes On Crossword Experts The program will be an unofficial competitor at the 35th Annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in New York this week.

Inspired by Watson’s success on Jeopardy!, AI specialist Matthew Ginsberg wanted to see if computers could out-duel humans in another language-based game.What he created was Dr. Fill, a software ...

Dr. Fill’s score was good enough to finish 141st out of 600 human contestants—near the low end of the range that its creator, the artificial intelligence expert Matthew Ginsberg, had predicted.

Meet Matt Ginsberg, the one-man programming team behind a computer program he hopes will win this week's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.

The program is called Dr. Fill and it aims to understand human writing style and crunch it into a bunch of 0′s and 1′s.

We hope you found your brain suitably teased by computer scientist Matthew Ginsberg’s artificial-intelligence crossword setter, Dr Fill (New Scientist, 20/27 December 2014, p 75, or online as ...

Fill won't actually be a contestant in the event, but anyone who beats it -- *if* anyone beats it -- will receive an "I Beat Dr. Fill" button from New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz.

There's a new kind of technology that may be able to beat you at your own game — at least if your game is a crossword puzzle. Its name is "Dr. Fill," but unlike the TV psychologist, this doctor ...