Researchers from the University of Illinois are developing a computer system capable of communicating with humans through the medium of jazz, playing improvised pieces in real time. The project forms ...

Forget the Men Who Stare At Goats - the latest project undertaken by US defence research is even stranger: teaching computers to play jazz. If the plan works, it could lead one day to a robotic jazz ...

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Jazz-playing computers and robots could soon yield clues about how to help people collaborate with machines, researchers say. The new project, called MUSICA (short for Musical Improvising ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) _ Improvisation is at ...

Talk about jazz that really cooks: Thirty years of Canadian concerts are being offered free online by a Toronto radio station that made it possible by baking the original analogue tape reels. The ...