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Why the world's toughest maths problems are much harder than a chess puzzle, and well worth US$1m - Cosmos

Chess Research - Thu, 09/07/2017 - 00:32

Cosmos

Why the world's toughest maths problems are much harder than a chess puzzle, and well worth US$1m
Cosmos
Yet only now, in a paper written by Chris Jefferson, Peter Nightingale and me published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, have we confirmed the depth of complexity hidden within the puzzle when scaled up to allow for boards of any ...

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IBM and MIT Bet That Materials and Quantum Advances Will Supercharge AI - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 23:01

MIT Technology Review

IBM and MIT Bet That Materials and Quantum Advances Will Supercharge AI
MIT Technology Review
The project, announced by IBM and MIT today, will research new approaches in deep learning, a technique in AI that has led to big advances in areas such as machine vision and voice recognition. But it will also explore completely new computing devices, ...

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Starting a Small Business with Help from the SBA - The Central New York Business Journal

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 22:06

Starting a Small Business with Help from the SBA
The Central New York Business Journal
Starting and managing a business takes motivation, desire, and talent. It also takes research and planning. Like a chess game, success in small business starts with decisive and correct opening moves. And although initial mistakes are not fatal, it ...

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Phishing Attacks Bait Employees With Office Scans, Emails - Credit Union Times

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 16:19

Credit Union Times

Phishing Attacks Bait Employees With Office Scans, Emails
Credit Union Times
The Comodo Threat Intelligence Lab team (part of Comodo Threat Research Labs) verified the two new ransomware attacks via detections at Comodo-protected endpoints at the front edge of each new attack. Orhan, said, “Botnets of compromised zombie ...

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Million Dollar Computer Chess Problem Will Take 'Thousands of Years' to Solve - Motherboard

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 09:57

Motherboard

Million Dollar Computer Chess Problem Will Take 'Thousands of Years' to Solve
Motherboard
A new study, published in The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research notes that as the equation is heightened to n-1,000 with 1,000 queens to place, AI tweaks out, sending itself into infinite permutation attempts like a frustrated Roomba trying ...
Why the world's toughest maths problems are much harder than a chess puzzle, and well worth US$1mThe Conversation UK

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Why the world's toughest maths problems are much harder than a chess puzzle, and well worth US$1m - The Conversation UK

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 07:05

The Conversation UK

Why the world's toughest maths problems are much harder than a chess puzzle, and well worth US$1m
The Conversation UK
Yet only now, in a paper written by Chris Jefferson, Peter Nightingale and me published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, have we confirmed the depth of complexity hidden within the puzzle when scaled up to allow for boards of any ...

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Life lessons learned by young chess champ (Column) - OregonLive.com

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 07:01

OregonLive.com

Life lessons learned by young chess champ (Column)
OregonLive.com
Sunday morning, the soon-to-be sixth grader was locked in a rigorous, hours-long battle with Brent Baxter, a 60-year-old research manager for the state of Washington. To a nonplayer, chess is a woefully slow spectator sport. Most games last between ...

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Sexism or science? Women's aptitude would blow Aristotle's mind - Irish Times

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 03:40

Irish Times

Sexism or science? Women's aptitude would blow Aristotle's mind
Irish Times
When the mindless lefties – many of whom were actual experts in cognitive sex differences – penned nuanced articles on the most up-to-date research in the field, these were never going to get the same traction as chess-man's memo. A headline like “Men ...

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Women's intellectual aptitude would blow Aristotle's mind - Irish Times

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 00:01

Irish Times

Women's intellectual aptitude would blow Aristotle's mind
Irish Times
When the mindless lefties – many of whom were actual experts in cognitive sex differences – penned nuanced articles on the most up-to-date research in the field, these were never going to get the same traction as chess-man's memo. A headline like “Men ...

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Damore's unscientific ideas about women are nothing new - Irish Times

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 00:01

Irish Times

Damore's unscientific ideas about women are nothing new
Irish Times
When the mindless lefties – many of whom were actual experts in cognitive sex differences – penned nuanced articles on the most up-to-date research in the field, these were never going to get the same traction as chess-man's memo. A headline like “Men ...

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If Aristotle and Darwin were alive women's intellectual aptitude would blow their minds - Irish Times

Chess Research - Wed, 09/06/2017 - 00:01

Irish Times

If Aristotle and Darwin were alive women's intellectual aptitude would blow their minds
Irish Times
When the mindless lefties – many of whom were actual experts in cognitive sex differences – penned nuanced articles on the most up-to-date research in the field, these were never going to get the same traction as chess-man's memo. A headline like “Men ...

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Eight queens puzzle: Solving this challenge can win you a million dollars - Hindustan Times

Chess Research - Tue, 09/05/2017 - 03:27

Hindustan Times

Eight queens puzzle: Solving this challenge can win you a million dollars
Hindustan Times
Building a computer programme that can solve a chess problem called the 'queens puzzle' could win you a prize of USD one million, say scientists who have thrown open a challenge that they claim is impossible to crack. Devised in 1850, the queens puzzle ...

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11-year-old Kazakh grabs bronze at World Cadets Chess Championship - http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release)

Chess Research - Tue, 09/05/2017 - 00:41

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11-year-old Kazakh grabs bronze at World Cadets Chess Championship
http://www.inform.kz/sitemap_en.xml (press release)
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Amina Kairbekova, an 11-year-old girl from Astana has won a bronze medal at the World Cadets Chess Championship 2017, Kazinform reports with reference to the Yessenov Research and Education Foundation. The tournament was ...

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Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? Experts Weigh In - HuffPost

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 10:01

HuffPost

Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? Experts Weigh In
HuffPost
If you take a look at the research being carried out at Elon Musk's Future of Life Institute on the topic, you will realize that all projects are researchy in nature (e.g. see this one about how to better estimate probabilities for self-driving cars ...

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Virginia Tech team develops novel 3-D printed high-performance polymer that could be used in space - Augusta Free Press

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 06:37

Augusta Free Press

Virginia Tech team develops novel 3-D printed high-performance polymer that could be used in space
Augusta Free Press
The high-performance polymer now could theoretically be used in any shape, size, or structure, with small chess pieces and lattice bricks already produced inside Virginia Tech labs. ... processing routes have limited engineers to make only thin films ...

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Solving this chess puzzle could net you a $1 mn prize - CanIndia News

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 06:03

Solving this chess puzzle could net you a $1 mn prize
CanIndia News
In a paper published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the team said the rewards to be reaped by such a programme would be immense, not least in financial terms with firms rushing to use it to offer technological solutions, and also a ...

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Solve 'simple' chess puzzle to win one million dollars - Economic Times

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 04:26

Economic Times

Solve 'simple' chess puzzle to win one million dollars
Economic Times
LONDON: Building a computer programme that can solve a chess problem called the 'Queens Puzzle' could win you a prize of USD one million, say scientists who have thrown open a challenge that they claim is impossible to crack. Devised in 1850, the ...
Researchers announce $1 mn prize to build computer programme to solve Queens PuzzleThe Indian Express
Solving this chess puzzle could win you a million dollarsMoneycontrol.com
Solving This Chess Puzzle Could Net You a $1Million PrizeNews18
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Men really ARE better at Scrabble because they play to win while women only take part to have fun, claims study - Daily Mail

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 04:24

Daily Mail

Men really ARE better at Scrabble because they play to win while women only take part to have fun, claims study
Daily Mail
Research found men are much better than women at Scrabble because they're more willing to focus their energies on winning rather than having fun. Unlike male dominated games such as chess, there are generally more women at Scrabble competitions, ...
Scientists discover why men are better than women at ScrabbleThe Australian

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Researchers announce $1 mn prize to build computer programme to solve Queens Puzzle - The Indian Express

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 01:20

Moneycontrol.com

Researchers announce $1 mn prize to build computer programme to solve Queens Puzzle
The Indian Express
Building a computer programme to solve a chess problem called the Queens Puzzle could win you a prize of million dollars, say scientists who have thrown open a challenge that they claim is impossible to crack. Devised in 1850, the Queens Puzzle ...
Solving this chess puzzle could win you a million dollarsMoneycontrol.com
Anyone Can Win $1 Million by Solving This Wildly Complex Mathematical Chess PuzzleScienceAlert
Want to be a millionaire? Decode this Queens puzzleFinancial Express
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AI news: University of St Andrews offers $1m prize to crack chess challenge - IT PRO

Chess Research - Mon, 09/04/2017 - 01:05

IT PRO

AI news: University of St Andrews offers $1m prize to crack chess challenge
IT PRO
IBM Research has beaten Microsoft's AI image recognition accuracy, correctly identifying a picture one-third of the time. IBM achieved a new image recognition accuracy of 33.8% for a neural network trained on a large data set of 7.5 million images.

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