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Weekend tech reading: Duke Nukem 3D turns 20, EA wants to regain your trust, Xerox splits in two - TechSpot

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 11:10

TechSpot

Weekend tech reading: Duke Nukem 3D turns 20, EA wants to regain your trust, Xerox splits in two
TechSpot
These polar vortices, which were theoretically predicted more than a decade ago, could also "rewrite our basic understanding of ferroelectrics" according to the researchers who observed them. Phys.org ... Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky ...

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As Tehran Frees American Pastor, Persecution of Iranian Christians Rages On - Algemeiner

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 05:48

Algemeiner

As Tehran Frees American Pastor, Persecution of Iranian Christians Rages On
Algemeiner
Mark Durie, a human rights activist and research fellow with the Middle East Forum think tank, told JNS.org. The “political threat” Durie mentioned is motivated ... Iran is a longer-term player, they invented chess. [Iran says,] 'No, we don't build a ...

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As Tehran Frees American Pastor, Persecution of Iranian Christians Rages On - Algemeiner

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 05:34

Algemeiner

As Tehran Frees American Pastor, Persecution of Iranian Christians Rages On
Algemeiner
Mark Durie, a human rights activist and research fellow with the Middle East Forum think tank, told JNS.org. The “political threat” Durie mentioned is motivated ... Iran is a longer-term player, they invented chess. [Iran says,] 'No, we don't build a ...

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Paging through some ideas to take the winter chill out of February - Burlington County Times

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 04:31

Paging through some ideas to take the winter chill out of February
Burlington County Times
Paid tickets and registration required. Feb. 13 (9:30 a.m.): Learn where to start your genealogy research and what resources are available during Beginning Genealogy. ... 23 (4 p.m.): Play Chess at the Library. All skill levels welcome. Bring your iPad ...

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Thinking ahead in health care - Rutland Herald

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 02:11

Thinking ahead in health care
Rutland Herald
UVM Health Network's recent growth is primarily in New York. And UVM Medical Center does need to be large enough to be a well respected and sought after academic, research and acute care facility. But you can't chalk it all up to size, some of it ...

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Thinking ahead in health care - Rutland Herald

Chess Research - Sun, 01/31/2016 - 02:11

Thinking ahead in health care
Rutland Herald
UVM Health Network's recent growth is primarily in New York. And UVM Medical Center does need to be large enough to be a well respected and sought after academic, research and acute care facility. But you can't chalk it all up to size, some of it ...

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Victory! An Artificially Intelligent Google Machine Beat Human Grandmaster - National Daily Press

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 23:57

Victory! An Artificially Intelligent Google Machine Beat Human Grandmaster
National Daily Press
AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT Google machine just beat a human grandmaster at the game of Go, the 2,500-year-old contest of strategy and intellect that's exponentially more complex than the game of chess. And Nick Bostrom isn't exactly impressed. Bostrom ...

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Rays address offense with offseason deals - The Ledger

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 22:03

Rays address offense with offseason deals
The Ledger
And I think if you ever do research on any hitter, their track record tells you more who they are and what kind of hitter they are and not just because of their home-road split. "I think if you look at my track ... Dickerson has played only 10 career ...

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Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It. The West Shakes Hands with the State Sponsors of Terrorism - Center for Research on Globalization

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 13:36

Center for Research on Globalization

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It. The West Shakes Hands with the State Sponsors of Terrorism
Center for Research on Globalization
Saudi Arabia remains an ally of the West in the many chess games playing out in the Middle East. It is preferred to Iran, that gray Daesh. And there's the trap. Denial creates the illusion of equilibrium. Jihadism is denounced as the scourge of the ...

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How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off - New York Times

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 13:30

How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off
New York Times
Research suggests that the most creative children are the least likely to become the teacher's pet, and in response, many learn to keep their original ideas to themselves. In the language of the critic William Deresiewicz, they become the excellent sheep.

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The power law that could hold the key to predicting cancer cell mutations - The National

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 12:38

The National

The power law that could hold the key to predicting cancer cell mutations
The National
This month, researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research, London announced that mutations in tumours also obeyed a power law, with implications that could save lives. A team ... Study co-leader Dr Andrea Sottoriva uses the analogy of a game of chess.

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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - KCBD-TV

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 10:08

NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity
KCBD-TV
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...

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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - WREX-TV

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 10:07

NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity
WREX-TV
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...

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NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity - Fox News

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 10:04

NYC pilot program aims to foster greater school diversity
Fox News
"Your child is going to be in a classroom with children who are different from them," Soto told parents during a tour this month, in between fielding questions about the school's fencing program and its chess club. That's not always the case. The city ...

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Google develops AI which can beat human players at the game of GO - Shanghaiist

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 06:08

Google develops AI which can beat human players at the game of GO
Shanghaiist
While machines have already bested humans at other games of strategy and intellect such as chess and Scrabble, Go remained a challenge for AI researchers. Some experts in the field believed that it would take a decade before a computer could defeat a ...

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Surface makes Microsoft money while the iPhone may be in trouble video - CNET - CNET

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 03:51

CNET

Surface makes Microsoft money while the iPhone may be in trouble video - CNET
CNET
It's a very different strategy than what computers use to beat humans at other games, like chess or checkers. Google says it could further research in areas ranging from climate modeling to complex disease analysis. There is so much more news you ...

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Larry E. Kitchen - Albany Democrat Herald

Chess Research - Sat, 01/30/2016 - 01:28

Larry E. Kitchen
Albany Democrat Herald
He then was employed by the American Institutes for Research in Los Altos Hills where he worked on Project Plan which developed early computer assisted education packages for schools. From there, he was employed in data processing management at ...

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Google's Go Victory Is Just a Glimpse of How Powerful AI Will Be - WIRED

Chess Research - Fri, 01/29/2016 - 13:39

Phys.Org

Google's Go Victory Is Just a Glimpse of How Powerful AI Will Be
WIRED
An artificially intelligent Google machine just beat a human grandmaster at the game of Go, the 2,500-year-old contest of strategy and intellect that's exponentially more complex than the game of chess. And Nick Bostrom isn't exactly impressed. Bostrom ...
Google's AI beats a professional Go player, an industry firstVentureBeat
Google's Go triumph is a milestone for artificial intelligence researchPhys.Org
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AI a Go - www.waterstechnology.com

Chess Research - Fri, 01/29/2016 - 10:10

www.waterstechnology.com

AI a Go
www.waterstechnology.com
While computers have dominated in games like chess, checkers and othello, researchers thought that they were still "at least a decade away" from beating the full-sized, formal game of Go. Perhaps what was most impressive was that AlphaGo "intelligently ...

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The Phillies are building an R & D department, and that's brilliant - Philly.com (blog)

Chess Research - Fri, 01/29/2016 - 09:02

Philly.com (blog)

The Phillies are building an R & D department, and that's brilliant
Philly.com (blog)
First, though, let's backup. You probably heard that the Phillies hired a former Google analyst named Andy Galdi and gave him the title Director, Research and Development. They had previously promoted intern Lewis Pollis to a full-time analyst, again ...

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