You are here

Chess Research

Amol Rajan: Chess - the cheap, easy solution for our underperforming schools - Evening Standard

Chess Research - Thu, 03/17/2016 - 05:59

Evening Standard

Amol Rajan: Chess - the cheap, easy solution for our underperforming schools
Evening Standard
An influential 2010 study by Victor Lavy for the National Bureau of Economic Research suggested the amount of time spent on core subjects matters more than the length of the school day. Our exhausted teachers may well agree with that, just as they will ...

Categories: Chess Research

How Google's AI Auto-Magically Answers Your Emails | WIRED - WIRED

Chess Research - Thu, 03/17/2016 - 05:30

WIRED

How Google's AI Auto-Magically Answers Your Emails | WIRED
WIRED
Smart Reply just launched on the browser version of Inbox, and it uses neural networks to come up with appropriate responses to messages.

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

DC community calendar, March 17-24, 2016 - Washington Post

Chess Research - Thu, 03/17/2016 - 03:46

DC community calendar, March 17-24, 2016
Washington Post
202-671-3121. Free. Chess for kids A master chess instructor guides kids from the basics to advanced skills. ... 202-467-4600. Free. Learn to play chess For all ages and experience levels. ... Lunchtime tour of the Conservatory Visit a jungle, desert ...

Categories: Chess Research

Don't Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At Go - FiveThirtyEight

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 14:41

FiveThirtyEight

Don't Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At Go
FiveThirtyEight
Go, an ancient Chinese board game, is far more complex than chess and was seen as a kind of final frontier in AI research — a moonshot to spur technological progress. Before this week, machine dominance in Go had been seen as an achievement still ...
What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For EducationNPR
Computer Beats World's Top Go Player In Historic MatchCardPlayer.com
Artificial intelligence: Use it well for a society where humans can thriveChicago Tribune
DeepMind -Pearson -Affective Computing Group - MIT -New York Times
all 105 news articles »
Categories: Chess Research

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI - NewsFactor Network

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 13:22

NewsFactor Network

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI
NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer scientists at Microsoft have designed a new research project that enables them to use the ...
Recent News Puts AI In The SpotlightFileHippo News

all 14 news articles »
Categories: Chess Research

Why your middle-aged brain is not declining - Minnesota Public Radio News

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 13:17

Minnesota Public Radio News

Why your middle-aged brain is not declining
Minnesota Public Radio News
But even if it doesn't work, brain researchers have great news for people 30 and up who feel their brains are slowing down. We can get smarter. ... In fact, studies have found that older air traffic controllers, pilots and chess masters outperform ...
Mind Flow: IQ Enhancement (Beta)MindFlow: IQ Enhancement
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
So Far, There's No Magic Bullet For The MindNPR

all 17 news articles »
Categories: Chess Research

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel raises $1B to plow into startups | New ... - New York Post

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:29

New York Post

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel raises $1B to plow into startups | New ...
New York Post
Peter Thiel has raised yet another billion-dollar tech fund. The Silicon Valley maverick — an early Facebook investor who has since made big bets on marijuana, ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Science of Learning 101: Job Performance and Expertise - ATD (blog)

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:06

ATD (blog)

Science of Learning 101: Job Performance and Expertise
ATD (blog)
It's widely known that expert chess players invest 10,000 to 50,000 hours to reach master level. Researchers have found that it may take similar amounts of time to reach expert/master status in other fields, but cognitive science research shows that we ...

Categories: Chess Research

With artificial intelligence having beaten humans in board games, what's next? - Phys.Org

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 09:10

With artificial intelligence having beaten humans in board games, what's next?
Phys.Org
Long a yardstick for advances in AI, the era of board game testing has come to an end, said Murray Campbell, an IBM research scientist who was part of the team that developed Deep Blue, the first computer program to beat a world chess champion. "Games ...

Categories: Chess Research

Do You Canoe? Notes From a Paddlers Gathering - Seven Days

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 09:02

Seven Days

Do You Canoe? Notes From a Paddlers Gathering
Seven Days
Dartmouth ethnobotany doctoral candidate Simone Whitecloud shared her research on some of the 500 plant species in Greenland, as well as her hopes to create a trilingual website in English, Inuit and Danish covering the plants' edible, medicinal and ...

Categories: Chess Research

A Giant Leap for Machine Kind; When Robots Can See - WVTF

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 08:15

WVTF

A Giant Leap for Machine Kind; When Robots Can See
WVTF
And there've passed many milestones; Computers winning at Chess and now the Chinese game, GO, and apps like Siri on an iPhone answering all manner of questions. But as smart as all that sounds, it's nothing compared the kind of nuanced ... Last fall ...

Categories: Chess Research

Where computers defeat humans | GulfNews.com - gulfnews.com

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 07:46

gulfnews.com

Where computers defeat humans | GulfNews.com
gulfnews.com
Deep learning and reinforcement learning have both been around for a while but until recently it was not at all clear how powerful they were and how far they ...

and more »
Google News
Categories: Chess Research

Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard - Motherboard

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 07:14

Motherboard

Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard
Motherboard
David Levy and Adrian David Cheok, founders of the annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, assert we're very close now to creating a sex robot, going ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard - Motherboard

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 07:14

Motherboard

Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard
Motherboard
David Levy and Adrian David Cheok, founders of the annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, assert we're very close now to creating a sex robot, going ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For Education : NPR Ed : NPR - NPR

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 05:05

NPR

What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For Education : NPR Ed : NPR
NPR
Recent advances — such as the victory over a human Go champion — raise important questions about AI's potential role in teaching and learning.

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

BDS and 'Intersectionality' — a Match Made in Hell - Algemeiner

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 04:46

BDS and 'Intersectionality' — a Match Made in Hell
Algemeiner
... Self-Determination/Black Struggle for Liberation” and Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers Gender/Queer Studies professor, delivers a diatribe accusing Israel of harvesting Palestinian organs for research, experimenting on Palestinian children and targeting ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Video games can help promote a better learning experience - The Daily Titan

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 02:20

The Daily Titan

Video games can help promote a better learning experience
The Daily Titan
They are like chess or any other game in which success depends on perseverance, intelligence, practice and learning, not chance,” said Peter Gray, Ph.D., a research professor at Boston College. Gaming stimulates the reward centers of a person's brain.

Categories: Chess Research

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ... - NewsFactor Network

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 02:01

NewsFactor Network

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ...
NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ... - NewsFactor Network

Chess Research - Wed, 03/16/2016 - 02:01

NewsFactor Network

Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ...
NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer ...

and more »
Categories: Chess Research

Pages