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The incredible life of DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, the computer whiz who sold his AI lab to Google for £400 ... - Business Insider
Business Insider
Business Insider
Nicknamed the "superhero of artificial intelligence" by The Guardian, Hassabis is a former child chess prodigy with degrees in computer science and cognitive neuroscience from Cambridge and University College London respectively. Hassabis co-created ...
Five things we learned about Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis on Radio 4s Desert Island DiscsCity A.M.
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From the Extension: Chess is good for students' minds - Daily Commercial
Daily Commercial
Daily Commercial
Chess is beautiful in the way that it is not discriminatory. Chess knows no boundaries of gender, age, intelligence, race, or socio-economic status and can be taught to anyone who wants to learn. As evidenced by research completed by K. Storey in 2000, ...
Is it just a myth that chess makes you more intelligent? - EWN - Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
Eyewitness News
A new study has evaluated whether playing chess has an impact on your cognitive ability.
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Global Chess Market 2017: ChessSUA, CNCHESS, ChessBaron, the House of Staunton - MilTech
MilTech
Deerfield Beach, FL — (SBWIRE) — 05/19/2017 — A market study based on the „Chess Market” across the globe, recently added to the repository of Market Research, is titled ‚Global Chess Market 2017'. The research report analyses the historical as well ...
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Global Chess Market 2017: ChessSUA, CNCHESS, ChessBaron, the House of Staunton - satPRnews (press release)
satPRnews (press release)
Deerfield Beach, FL — (SBWIRE) — 05/19/2017 — A market study based on the „Chess Market” across the globe, recently added to the repository of Market Research, is titled ‚Global Chess Market 2017'. The research report analyses the historical as well ...
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Arctic security poses icy chess game with Russia, China - The Hill (blog)
The Hill (blog)
The Hill (blog)
Alice C. Hill is a research fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution, where her work focuses on building resilience to destabilizing catastrophic events such as climate change. She previously served as special assistant to President Obama ...
The Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Director Robert Chess Sells 5000 Shares - BangaloreWeekly
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BangaloreWeekly
Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) Director Robert Chess sold 5,000 shares of Nektar Therapeutics stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 15th. The stock was ... Several research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Jefferies Group ...
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Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) Files Form 4 Insider Selling : Robert Chess Sells 5000 SharesEnergy Index
Nektar Therapeutics - NKTR - Stock Price Today - ZacksZacks
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Want to sharpen your logic and creativity skills? Try chess - CampaignLive
CampaignLive
CampaignLive
Academics have spent years developing research proving how simply playing chess can help to improve skills such as creativity, strategic thinking, problem solving and more. And while I'm no grandmaster, by playing chess against different people and ...
UW researchers recognized for smartphone app aimed at preventing substance abuse relapse - University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Based on randomized clinical trials, A-CHESS users are 65 percent more likely to remain sober after leaving an inpatient treatment service, said David Gustafson, industrial and systems engineering emeritus research professor and the principal ...
UW researchers recognized for smartphone app aimed at preventing substance abuse relapse - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scottsdale memory care resident competes with high schoolers in chess - Scottsdale Independent
Scottsdale Independent
Scottsdale Independent
A story in Chess News by Michael Ciamarra, “Checkmating Alzheimer's Disease,” cited research that points to the benefits of chess and other “mind games” in keeping the brain cognitively stimulated and possibly offering protection against deepening ...
14 Johns Hopkins students receive Fulbright grants to study, teach, conduct research abroad - The Hub at Johns Hopkins
The Hub at Johns Hopkins
The Hub at Johns Hopkins
Fourteen Johns Hopkins University students and recent graduates have been awarded Fulbright grants, earning the chance to travel abroad to study, teach, and conduct research. Named for the late Sen. J. William Fulbright, who sponsored legislation ...
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3 Keys For Cultivating Genius - Big Think
Big Think
Big Think
His research points strongly toward the first: genius as a skill that can be cultivated with discipline. Simonton distinguishes between two popular definitions of genius. He points to Kant with the first, which is also the focus of his article ...
Expert discusses the future of human-centered robotics - Phys.Org
Phys.Org
Phys.Org
As in chess, the strongest players are often the combinations of human and machine. I increasingly see that the three critical elements are people, robots, and infrastructure—all interdependent. Q: In your recent book "Our Robots, Ourselves," you ...
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AI Opponents Can Beat Humans at Chess, Go, and Even Poker - Futurism
Futurism
Futurism
Artificial intelligence continually becomes more sophisticated, and playing games with people is something it's quite skilled at.
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Microdoses of LSD could be the brain food of the future - Mother Nature Network
Mother Nature Network
Mother Nature Network
Specifically, researcher Amanda Feilding of the Beckley Foundation in the UK is spearheading a study to see whether LSD can allow humans to regain their supremacy over machines in games like Chess or the ancient Chinese game of Go, reports ...
World record blindfolded chess player visiting Christian school today - Salina Journal (subscription)
Salina Journal (subscription)
“Research tells us that chess is something a lot of people have forgotten about, but something that exercises your right brain and helps you in other areas,” she said. “Timur is highly successful and passionate for chess. We're hoping that will show ...
What Is Intelligence? 20 Years After Deep Blue, AI Still Can't Think Like Humans - Live Science
Live Science
Live Science
When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player, Garry Kasparov, in the last game of a six-game match on May 11, 1997, the world was astonished. This was the first time any human chess champion had been taken down by a machine ...
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Ethical Conundrums in AI - Westlaw Insider (blog)
Westlaw Insider (blog)
Westlaw Insider (blog)
Lex Machina: An intellectual property (“IP”) research company that helps companies anticipate, manage, and win patent and other IP lawsuits by comparing cases to a database of information and helping their customers draw valuable conclusions that ...
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Garry tells how life imitates chess - Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad Guardian
Trinidad Guardian
And the former world champion answers: “To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent.” What's more, the Russian genius adds, it requires a synthesis ...