You are here

Chess Research

Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles Umea University - EurekAlert (press release)

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:16

EurekAlert (press release)

Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles Umea University
EurekAlert (press release)
The research shows that the sensory capability of spindle neurons was adjusted according to the ongoing requirements of the task being learned. In other words, muscle spindle signal patterns were changed during the learning process to become ...

Categories: Chess Research

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:53

MIT Technology Review

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence
MIT Technology Review
A chess prodigy who completed high school early to establish a successful career in the video-game industry, he later got a PhD in neuroscience and published high-profile research on memory and imagination. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2011 to ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Cyberbullying The A.I. And The Exposure Of Children Online - WT VOX

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:22

WT VOX

Cyberbullying The A.I. And The Exposure Of Children Online
WT VOX
The A.I. is now able to learn on its own, identify faces, voices, pictures, locations, beat us at games such as chess and Go, predict behaviors, assess personalities, compute complex mathematical problems and even come up with answers in the quantum ...

Categories: Chess Research

Study shows rural areas lacking after-school programs (+video) - Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 09:59

Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Study shows rural areas lacking after-school programs (+video)
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
“I think it speaks to the need for the after-school programs that we are seeing an increase in participation and we're seeing that demand is still high,” Afterschool Alliance Director of Research Nikki Yamashiro said. “So even though more kids are ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Study shows rural areas lacking afterschool programs (+video) - Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 09:42

Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Study shows rural areas lacking afterschool programs (+video)
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
“I think it speaks to the need for the after-school programs that we are seeing an increase in participation and we're seeing that demand is still high,” Afterschool Alliance Director of Research Nikki Yamashiro said. “So even though more kids are ...

Categories: Chess Research

The Guardian: Alta's Ohno Wieringa - Powder Magazine

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 06:19

The Guardian: Alta's Ohno Wieringa
Powder Magazine
With more than 1.7 million people in the Wasatch Front and Utah's population growth trending at nearly double the national rate, the Utah Foundation, a public policy research group, predicts the state could add up to 2.5 million new residents by 2050 ...

Categories: Chess Research

With imagination and patience, a piece of wood becomes a thing of beauty - Norwich Bulletin

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 04:57

Norwich Bulletin

With imagination and patience, a piece of wood becomes a thing of beauty
Norwich Bulletin
His hobby was an outgrowth of his retirement—in a somewhat roundabout fashion. For decades, starting in June 1965, he was a physicist with the former Naval Underwater Systems Center in New London, the U.S. Navy's research, development, test and ...

Categories: Chess Research

Chess instruction in schools: A quantitative review - Chessbase News

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 02:00
Chess instruction in schools: A quantitative review  Chessbase News

Does chess in school make children smarter? In this review of the available evidence, Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet show that chess instruction in schools ...

Categories: Chess Research

How Google DeepMind Plans to Solve Intelligence - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 23:06

MIT Technology Review

How Google DeepMind Plans to Solve Intelligence
MIT Technology Review
A chess prodigy who completed high school early to establish a successful career in the video-game industry, he later got a PhD in neuroscience and published high-profile research on memory and imagination. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2011 to ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Community reeling after 'brilliant' boy's death - dailytelegraph.com.au

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 22:56

dailytelegraph.com.au

Community reeling after 'brilliant' boy's death
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Victor was a talented musician and his name was synonymous with chess at Northbridge,” Mrs Donlan said. He was the youngest-ever winner of our school chess competition as a ... Last Thursday, Northbridge Public School held a mufti day in Victor's ...

Categories: Chess Research

Get Out calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2016 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 18:11

Get Out calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2016
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
This event will feature a presentation by Dr. David Mattson, Research Wildlife Biologist (retired) U.S. Geological Survey, preceded by the short film by Jim Laybourn, “Always Endangered.” ... Chess Club, Bozeman Public Library, 626 E. Main St., 6 p.m ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

More from Patrick Jobes on Bozeman's oldtime growth - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 17:29

The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)

More from Patrick Jobes on Bozeman's oldtime growth
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)
They seem to have a dreamscape geographic image which they think can be objectively plated out like chess or Monopoly. They only want a few affordable acres, which they intend to develop only a little bit. They want urban amenities and a flexible ...

Categories: Chess Research

President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT - MIT News

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 16:22

MIT News

President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT
MIT News
Sargsyan was also shown demonstrations of projects from multiple Media Lab research groups, including the Tangible Media group, directed by Hiroshi Ishii; the Lifelong Kindergarten group, directed by Mitchel Resnick; and the Responsive Environments ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Could AlphaGo Bluff Its Way through Poker? - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 12:36

MIT Technology Review

Could AlphaGo Bluff Its Way through Poker?
MIT Technology Review
Unlike board games such as Go or chess, poker is a game of “imperfect information,” and for this reason it has proved even more resistant to computerization than Go. Gameplay in poker involves devising a ... Together with Johannes Heinrich, a research ...
Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?The Guardian

all 3 news articles »
Categories: Chess Research

Cliff Curtis' long shot as “The Dark Horse” pays off - San Francisco Chronicle

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 12:36

San Francisco Chronicle

Cliff Curtis' long shot as “The Dark Horse” pays off
San Francisco Chronicle
“Once I started to play chess and to really research him and research about the condition, the bipolar disorder, and the medication he had to take, and then I met his family, his wife and his son, once I got into the world of it, it evolved. It was an ...
'Dark Horse' a loving portrait of hero – Webber, Hurd-Wood to star in Joe Dante's chiller 'Labirintus'Arab Times Kuwait English Daily

all 14 news articles »
Categories: Chess Research

Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington's Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile” - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 11:08

Center for Research on Globalization

Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington's Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile”
Center for Research on Globalization
Cuba has produced numerous computer games, including a popular program that teaches how to play chess; it has produced cell-phone platforms as well as a popular operating system; and of course, it has produced software for the health sector, including ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession - The Tennessean

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 08:05

The Tennessean

Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession
The Tennessean
Perhaps you read where a Google software program just beat a world master champion at Go, a game of intelligence, strategy and intuition far more complex than chess. But the future of these developments isn't computers as TV celebrities. Instead, the ...

Categories: Chess Research

THINGS TO DO: March 31-April 6 - Marco Island Sun Times

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 07:52

Marco Island Sun Times

THINGS TO DO: March 31-April 6
Marco Island Sun Times
Chess on Marco Island meets Mondays, 9 a.m.-noon, at Marco Lutheran Church, 525 N. Collier Blvd. Chess in Naples meets Saturdays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in clubhouse at Moorings Park, off Goodlette-Frank Road. ... while continuing to lecture and do freelance ...

Categories: Chess Research

Nick Blackwell Injury: Is It Time To Ban Head Blows in Boxing? - Newsweek

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 06:28

Newsweek

Nick Blackwell Injury: Is It Time To Ban Head Blows in Boxing?
Newsweek
In the past, before concerted research was conducted into the effects of head blows on the brain, many boxing gyms had stumbling, mumbling characters doing menial tasks in the only world they knew. Sometimes cruelly mocked, they were the “punch-drunk” ...

and more »
Google News
Categories: Chess Research

Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next? - The Guardian

Chess Research - Wed, 03/30/2016 - 03:27

The Guardian

Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?
The Guardian
A paper from two UCL researchers suggests one future project: playing poker. And unlike Go, victory in that field could probably fund itself – at least until humans stopped playing against the robot. The paper's authors are Johannes Heinrich, a ...

Categories: Chess Research

Pages