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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...
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Loose Lips Sink Careers, Even for CEOs - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
“This sort of becomes a chess match now of public opinion — which is sad, because ultimately it should be about the facts,” he said. Mr. Shkreli added: “I feel like I'm being prosecuted for being a jerk.” After hearing from him, I retained my ...
Here's how the best-performing hedge fund of 2016 is crushing it - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
giant chess, chess, knight Reuters/Luke MacGregorFigures from "The Tournament," a giant chess set designed by Jaime Hayon of Spain, seen by Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in central London in 2009.
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Relations Between Russia, Turkey Complicate ISIS Fight - Washington Free Beacon
Washington Free Beacon
... followed by supposed documentation released by Russian officials to Russian state media, including RT and Sputnik, and then rapidly echoed by “independent research” groups often cited by Russian state media, including the Center for Research on ...
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Alexey Navalny's Very Strange Form of Freedom - The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker
... in 2011 and 2012: Boris Nemtsov, the liberal, is dead, shot in view of the Kremlin in February of last year; Sergei Udaltsov, the radical leftist, is in jail, serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Russian ...
Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity - The Conversation AU
The Conversation AU
The Conversation AU
Darrell Kemp receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery-Programs scheme grants DP140104107 & DP160103668). Martin Hilbert does not work ... Artificial intelligence can beat us in chess and on game shows. What's more, it's faster ...
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“It's Gravity Meets Night of the Living Dead!”: A Review of 400 Days - Locus Online
Locus Online
The astronauts are also given personal journals and playing cards, recalling Frank Poole's game of chess with HAL, and exercise machines are available in both The Martian and 400 Days (though Poole had to jog around Discovery's circular chamber ...
Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...
Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art - Long Beach Post
Long Beach Post
Long Beach Post
The park supervisor granted us access to the chess room, more than doubling the classroom space. Now, we are negotiating a closet. I would love to see a big, beautiful studio with a large gas kiln, but a closet would be a major victory! It is a really ...
Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports - VentureBeat
VentureBeat
VentureBeat
“According to research undertaken by Newzoo, esports audiences currently rival those of the NHL, and should reach NFL levels by 2017,” VB Insight marketing technology director Stewart Rogers told GamesBeat. “That isn't the whole story; the average ...
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Alumnus on Forbes 2016 '30 Under 30′ List for Health Care - Tennessee Today
Tennessee Today
Tennessee Today
As a child, Madhukar loved puzzles and spent many afternoons playing chess—activities he believed helped him eventually develop the problem-oriented mindset needed for research. Madhukar developed UT ties during his middle and high school years in ...
Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward
Forward
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...
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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward
Forward
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...
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Understanding false memory - Illinois State University News
Illinois State University News
Illinois State University News
Professor of Psychology Dawn McBride has conducted years of research on why the memory works the way it does and the causes of false memory. She began researching the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which is used to study ... Without looking ...
Cotter student designs brain tumor-modeling program for neurosurgeons - Winona Daily News
Winona Daily News
Winona Daily News
Lee spent months preparing for a two-week internship at a private research firm in Chicago, where he developed a high-tech computer program designed to assist neurosurgeons and save lives. Lee's program took him two weeks of 12-hour workdays to create ...
2015-2016 Lake County Leadership Team - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Art class teacher for four years at Volo Bog Youth Art Guild; research intern at bird division of the Field Museum for two years; host for school's Veterans Day breakfast; logistics head for school's cancer fundraiser challenge, Hunt ...
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Honorable mentions: Northwest Suburban Leadership Team, 2015-2016 - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Worked as a research assistant for the Hospitalist Project at the University of Chicago; helped perform laboratory research in cancer pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago; volunteered in Women and Infant Services at Alexian ...
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Redefining the Relationship of Man and Machine - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The spectrum of rapid recent advances runs the gamut from the kind of simple algorithmic intelligence it takes to win against a chess master, to the advent of thinking machines and IBM's neuromorphic chips (i.e. chips that attempt to mirror our own ...
South Eugene High students to argue in debate championships - The Register-Guard
The Register-Guard
The Register-Guard
“You get up at like 6 a.m., then research and debate all day. It's hard, but I like it because it's like a verbal game of chess that's based on persuasion.” Lininger and Saenger say they research their policy topic for about two hours per night and use ...
DC community calendar, January 14-21, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
202-727-1288. Chess for kids Master chess instructor guides you from learning the basics to advancing your level of skill. Thursdays at 5 p.m. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. ... Lunchtime conservatory tour Guided tour of a jungle, desert ...