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The AIX Minecraft Project Makes Thinking Software Possible - iProgrammer
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iProgrammer
Microsoft researchers set out to make a difference by trying to make a Minecraft character climb a virtual hill. It might sound as not that big a deal, but it is. The difference arises out of trying to program it to learn, as opposed to programming it ...
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New Musical Generated Completely by a Computer - Indie Shuffle Music News (blog)
Indie Shuffle Music News (blog)
Indie Shuffle Music News (blog)
Computers have become smarter and smarter over the years - they are personal assistants, chess experts, and even Jeopardy champions. Recently, it was announced that a computer would not ... The result of all of this research and computing is Beyond the ...
Bendigo Bank invests in new trading platform technology - ZDNet
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ZDNet
"BID is all about confidence, providing customers with the market leading research, sophisticated analytics tools, and speed they need to execute trades as they identify opportunities," he said. The launch comes after the ... The ASX said a final ...
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Athens area events for Wednesday, March 23 - Online Athens
Online Athens
Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority: 9:30 a.m., Northeast Georgia Regional Commission, 305 Research Drive. New mamas support ... Chess Club: 5 to 6 p.m., Oconee County Library, 1080 Experiment Station Road, Watkinsville. Free. 706-769-3950 or visit ...
Artificial Intelligence Redefines the Labor Force - STRATFOR
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STRATFOR
Google's AlphaGo program recently defeated the world's second-ranked player of Go — a vastly more complex game than chess — marking an important milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). But equally important was Google's ...
What's in a name? - University of California
University of California
University of California
Marshall's painstaking detective work, which began more than a decade ago, continued on and off over the years as he conducted genealogical and historical research both online and at archives, such as those of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. “And then at ...
The Guardian view on gender pay inequality: it's not just a tennis racket - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
That's good; but not good enough. Hours after the MPs' report, the Equality and Human Rights Commission published government-backed research showing that three-quarters of pregnant women and new mothers report harassment, which is getting worse, ...
Only a man could forget when women ruled tennisSydney Morning Herald
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Family Fun: Raising a good sport - Charlotte Observer
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Charlotte Observer
And research shows that the best way to ensure a good experience for all is to remind your kids to have a positive attitude. Try these ideas to ... Strategy games like checkers, chess, or Monopoly are a good way to practice sportsmanship at home. "They ...
The pull-happy Alvarez is turning heads for the Orioles with his willingness to go to left field - Camden Chat
Camden Chat
Camden Chat
The O's have made it a point to sustain the titanic identity they've maintained over the past few years, and Alvarez is yet another pawn in the club's chess match of dingers. But all the while, the Orioles have seemingly forced Mark Trumbo into a realm ...
Tech: How does AI work? - RU Daily Targum
RU Daily Targum
RU Daily Targum
The AI, named AlphaGo, beat 18-time world Go champion Lee Sedol in a series of five Go matches, and showed the world how advanced AI research is, according to the MIT Technology Review website. AlphaGo showed off some different ... Similar AI victories ...
What Is a Robot? - The Atlantic
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The Atlantic
Ajeeb, a chess player made of wax and papier-mâché, was New York's favorite automaton in the late 1880s. .... The tech research firm Business Intelligence estimates that the market for corporate and consumer robots will grow to $1.5 billion by 2019 ...
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System Bits: March 22 - SemiEngineering
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SemiEngineering
Researchers at MIT and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) have discovered some of the secrets to a long-hidden magic trick behind the self-assembly of nanocrystal structures, the understanding of which could be used to create more ...
Music matters: Hermiston schools make music programs a priority for all ages - East Oregonian (subscription)
East Oregonian (subscription)
East Oregonian (subscription)
“Research has shown a connection between participation in music education programs and student success, such as improvement in brain function and a person's ability to process language,” Bryn Browning, assistant superintendent, said in a written ...
Only a man could forget when women ruled tennis - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
"You had the Williams sisters' power and movement, Lindsay Davenport's skills, my kind of chess game and Monica Seles still really good after all she went through." Let's not forget Jennifer Capriati - turning 40 this month! - pushing away all the ...
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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, .... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Defenseless Against AI: Supercomputers More Powerful Than the Human Mind - Scientific Computing
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Scientific Computing
The Professor, whose research interests include computer vision, machine-learning and multimedia content analysis, says the question now is how much we should control AI's ability to self-learn. “The scientists and technology investors have been ...
Nanocrystal self-assembly sheds its secrets - The MIT Tech
The MIT Tech
The MIT Tech
The researchers anticipate their new findings will have implications for the direct manipulation of resulting superlattices, with the possibility of on-demand fabrication and the potential to generate principles for the formation of related soft ...
Links and quotes for March 21, 2016: Automation, new socialists, and more - American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute
Why Innovation Requires Economic Freedom – Quillette | “Reflecting upon his life under authoritarianism, former Russian chess champion and current human rights activist Garry Kasparov said it best: “Innovation requires freedom of thought, freedom of ...
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Seegrid Calculates a New Route for Autonomous Vehicles - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Chess-playing programs were really just scaling the edge of what human beings did when they thought hard,” he said. He continued his research at Carnegie Mellon University and in 2003–roughly 30 years after his robocar crawled through his Stanford lab ...
IBM's Top Researcher: A Win for Computers Is a Win for Humans - TIME
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TIME
I know this firsthand. I worked on the IBM Research team that built the underlying technologies that fueled the chess-playing Deep Blue supercomputer during its historic matches against grandmaster Garry Kasparov two decades ago. That work ushered in a ...
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