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Found: An 800-Year-Old Chess Piece - Atlas Obscura

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 14:19

Atlas Obscura

Found: An 800-Year-Old Chess Piece
Atlas Obscura
In fall 2017, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) started digging a medieval site in Tønsberg, a town founded during the Viking period and now considered to be Norway's oldest. Among the artifacts unearthed so far, including ...

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AFRL Anticipates Arrival of Neuromorphic Supercomputer - Signal Magazine

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 12:15

AFRL Anticipates Arrival of Neuromorphic Supercomputer
Signal Magazine
Goddard adds that the lab's neuromorphic computing research team focuses on developing and fielding the game-changing technology through innovations in new, massively parallel computing, in-memory processing architectures, new nanoelectronic devices ...

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Ancient Chess Piece With Islamic Designs Discovered in Norway, Baffling Archaeologists - Newsweek

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 10:36

Newsweek

Ancient Chess Piece With Islamic Designs Discovered in Norway, Baffling Archaeologists
Newsweek
The medieval knight piece has a protruding snout on the top with two dotted circles. Lars Haugesten/Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage Research. "No previous archaeological finds from Tønsberg have such details, which emphasizes that this chess ...

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How Tracy Anderson Keeps Revolutionizing Fitness - Forbes

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 09:18

Forbes

How Tracy Anderson Keeps Revolutionizing Fitness
Forbes
She began developing her integrated method in 1999 and has since created over 200,000 custom exercise moves that define her approach; A mental feat that can be attributed to her childhood as a champion chess player. Each move is deliberately designed ...

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 06:39

Live Science

800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway
Live Science
There is likely some lead inside the piece to help it "stand firmly on the chessboard," a team of archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) said in a statement. Discovered just before Christmas 2017, "the piece ...

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New study to help improve life for headache sufferers - Hospital Healthcare Europe

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 03:36

New study to help improve life for headache sufferers
Hospital Healthcare Europe
Researchers at Warwick Medical School are investigating whether a new education and self-management programme will help improve quality of life for people living with chronic headaches. The study, Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study ...

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Exciting Partnerships Forming Between Big Pharma and Tech - Pharmacy Times

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:14

Exciting Partnerships Forming Between Big Pharma and Tech
Pharmacy Times
IBM's Watson made the media rounds for defeating humans in board games like Chess and Go, but more relevant to the masses would be assistance it can provide in the health care arena. Health care was an original entry point for Watson, but an ...

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:00
800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway  Live Science

Chess fans today may not recognize this decorated thimble-shaped object, but a recently discovered 800-year-old game piece from Norway is actually a knight.

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800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway - Live Science

Chess Research - Mon, 01/29/2018 - 02:00
800-Year-Old 'Knight' Chess Piece Discovered in Norway  Live Science

Chess fans today may not recognize this decorated thimble-shaped object, but a recently discovered 800-year-old game piece from Norway is actually a knight.

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The Love Oracle: Can AI Help You Succeed at Dating? - Singularity Hub

Chess Research - Sun, 01/28/2018 - 10:15

The Love Oracle: Can AI Help You Succeed at Dating?
Singularity Hub
Interacting with modern-day Alexa, Siri, and other chatterbots can be fun, but as personal assistants, these chatterbots can seem a little impersonal. What if, instead of asking them to turn the lights off, you were asking them how to mend a broken ...

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Emmanuel Macron's Neoliberal Blitzkrieg - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Sun, 01/28/2018 - 03:00

Center for Research on Globalization

Emmanuel Macron's Neoliberal Blitzkrieg
Center for Research on Globalization
The gambit is a well-known opening move in the chess game. The player makes a sacrifice, typically a pawn, for the sake of a compensating advantage. Emmanuel Macron metaphorically did that in the first six months of his presidency. In the run-up to the ...

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Southern Copper (SCCO) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold - Newburgh Gazette

Chess Research - Sat, 01/27/2018 - 22:26

Southern Copper (SCCO) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold
Newburgh Gazette
The insider CHESS ROBERT sold 6,400 shares worth $139,008. Winslow Evans & Crocker Inc. now owns 6,706 shares of the basic materials company's stock worth $267,000 after acquiring an additional 6,626 shares in the last quarter. The stock increased 0.19 ...

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How AI and humans can work together - Deccan Chronicle

Chess Research - Sat, 01/27/2018 - 16:18

Deccan Chronicle

How AI and humans can work together
Deccan Chronicle
In 1959, Alan Turing proposed the famous Turing test: If a machine can fool a human interrogator and prove its intelligence. Slowly, a definition of AI came to entail making a machine do what humans do better. Obviously, what we call AI kept on ...

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AI can read - and tech companies race to smarten up thinking machines - Chron.com

Chess Research - Sat, 01/27/2018 - 00:50

Chron.com

AI can read - and tech companies race to smarten up thinking machines
Chron.com
Computers have also vanquished humans at chess, Pac-Man and the strategy game Go. And since IBM's "Jeopardy" victory in 2011, the tech industry has shifted its efforts to data-intensive methods that seek to not just find factoids, but better comprehend ...

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Future perfect - The Business Times

Chess Research - Fri, 01/26/2018 - 15:51

The Business Times

Future perfect
The Business Times
"If AI is so good, how was Facebook hacked by the Russians? Facebook is supposed to have fantastic AI!" - George Colony. PHOTO: YEN MENG JIIN. GEORGE Colony, the founder, chairman and CEO of research agency Forrester, is worried about computer ...

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Did JFK's great hair doom a Sheboygan hat shop? And other historical snippets| Dippel - The Sheboygan Press

Chess Research - Fri, 01/26/2018 - 15:20

Did JFK's great hair doom a Sheboygan hat shop? And other historical snippets| Dippel
The Sheboygan Press
RELATED:Historical Research Center uncovers mystery of Laibach. Sheboygan County has more than its share of interesting people and odds and ends. Edward Elmer or E.E. Smith was born May 2, 1890, in Sheboygan. His folks came from Maine and Michigan and ...

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AI in Government: Experts Are of Two Minds - Techwire.net

Chess Research - Fri, 01/26/2018 - 12:23

AI in Government: Experts Are of Two Minds
Techwire.net
They ran the gamut from industry association representatives to university professors. Generally the speakers said it's good for the state to turn to a broad coalition of AI experts to better understand the technology before moving forward. But Annette ...

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Strong AI Principles Now – Less Dystopia Later - Electronics360

Chess Research - Fri, 01/26/2018 - 11:37

Electronics360

Strong AI Principles Now – Less Dystopia Later
Electronics360
Researchers classify today's AI developments as narrow or weak AI. These systems perform a single, directed task, such as recognizing a face, classifying data or driving an automated vehicle. The AI that Hawking and Musk speak about is known as general ...

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Podcast: Damiano Brigo on derivatives, AI, machine learning and more - Risk.net

Chess Research - Thu, 01/25/2018 - 22:37

Risk.net

Podcast: Damiano Brigo on derivatives, AI, machine learning and more
Risk.net
Rather, voice recognition, chess and other game-playing applications, or interactive software that is able to answer questions, are simply examples of sophisticated statistical algorithms. He also explains how the UK government's plan to change its ...

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A chess game got Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons on the path to quantum physics - ABC Online

Chess Research - Thu, 01/25/2018 - 20:53

ABC Online

A chess game got Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons on the path to quantum physics
ABC Online
"It's absolutely rewarding in a way I didn't get with easier things. From that point on I thought what can I do that's going to be useful for the world." She went on to become one of Australia's top scientists. The 50-year-old mother of three is a ...

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