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Yamamoto: Mugabe's incredible Japan folly - New Zimbabwe.com
New Zimbabwe.com
New Zimbabwe.com
Mr. Mugabe's visit to Japan is to make him no more than a foreign policy pawn on a grand foreign policy chess-board – a tool in a foreign policy tool box. That pretty much ... Ken Yamamoto is a research fellow on Africa at an Institute in Tokyo. He ...
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Forget About Big Data: Teaching Computers to Think Just Like Humans Is the New Big Thing - Haaretz
Haaretz
Haaretz
Scientists and researchers have been trying for decades to develop computers or machines that can copy the complex processes that occur in the brain, chiefly the ability of people to learn. But real breakthroughs have only been achieved in the last two ...
Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles - Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
Medical Xpress
"The findings strongly point to independent control of these sensors during motor learning," says Dr. Michael Dimitriou, who conducted the study and is a researcher at the Department of Integrative Medical Biology at Umeå University in Sweden. In this ...
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Prince George's County community calendar, March 31-April 6, 2016 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess club Learn to play or improve skills. 7 p.m. South Bowie Library, 15301 Hall ... 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. 301-497-5887. fws.gov/refuge/patuxent.
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Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles Umea University - EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
EurekAlert (press release)
The research shows that the sensory capability of spindle neurons was adjusted according to the ongoing requirements of the task being learned. In other words, muscle spindle signal patterns were changed during the learning process to become ...
How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
A chess prodigy who completed high school early to establish a successful career in the video-game industry, he later got a PhD in neuroscience and published high-profile research on memory and imagination. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2011 to ...
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Cyberbullying The A.I. And The Exposure Of Children Online - WT VOX
WT VOX
WT VOX
The A.I. is now able to learn on its own, identify faces, voices, pictures, locations, beat us at games such as chess and Go, predict behaviors, assess personalities, compute complex mathematical problems and even come up with answers in the quantum ...
Study shows rural areas lacking after-school programs (+video) - Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
“I think it speaks to the need for the after-school programs that we are seeing an increase in participation and we're seeing that demand is still high,” Afterschool Alliance Director of Research Nikki Yamashiro said. “So even though more kids are ...
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Study shows rural areas lacking afterschool programs (+video) - Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat
“I think it speaks to the need for the after-school programs that we are seeing an increase in participation and we're seeing that demand is still high,” Afterschool Alliance Director of Research Nikki Yamashiro said. “So even though more kids are ...
The Guardian: Alta's Ohno Wieringa - Powder Magazine
Powder Magazine
With more than 1.7 million people in the Wasatch Front and Utah's population growth trending at nearly double the national rate, the Utah Foundation, a public policy research group, predicts the state could add up to 2.5 million new residents by 2050 ...
With imagination and patience, a piece of wood becomes a thing of beauty - Norwich Bulletin
Norwich Bulletin
Norwich Bulletin
His hobby was an outgrowth of his retirement—in a somewhat roundabout fashion. For decades, starting in June 1965, he was a physicist with the former Naval Underwater Systems Center in New London, the U.S. Navy's research, development, test and ...
Chess instruction in schools: A quantitative review - Chessbase News
Does chess in school make children smarter? In this review of the available evidence, Giovanni Sala and Fernand Gobet show that chess instruction in schools ...
How Google DeepMind Plans to Solve Intelligence - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
A chess prodigy who completed high school early to establish a successful career in the video-game industry, he later got a PhD in neuroscience and published high-profile research on memory and imagination. Hassabis cofounded DeepMind in 2011 to ...
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Community reeling after 'brilliant' boy's death - dailytelegraph.com.au
dailytelegraph.com.au
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Victor was a talented musician and his name was synonymous with chess at Northbridge,” Mrs Donlan said. He was the youngest-ever winner of our school chess competition as a ... Last Thursday, Northbridge Public School held a mufti day in Victor's ...
Get Out calendar for Thursday, April 7, 2016 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
This event will feature a presentation by Dr. David Mattson, Research Wildlife Biologist (retired) U.S. Geological Survey, preceded by the short film by Jim Laybourn, “Always Endangered.” ... Chess Club, Bozeman Public Library, 626 E. Main St., 6 p.m ...
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More from Patrick Jobes on Bozeman's oldtime growth - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle (blog)
They seem to have a dreamscape geographic image which they think can be objectively plated out like chess or Monopoly. They only want a few affordable acres, which they intend to develop only a little bit. They want urban amenities and a flexible ...
President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT - MIT News
MIT News
MIT News
Sargsyan was also shown demonstrations of projects from multiple Media Lab research groups, including the Tangible Media group, directed by Hiroshi Ishii; the Lifelong Kindergarten group, directed by Mitchel Resnick; and the Responsive Environments ...
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Could AlphaGo Bluff Its Way through Poker? - MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Unlike board games such as Go or chess, poker is a game of “imperfect information,” and for this reason it has proved even more resistant to computerization than Go. Gameplay in poker involves devising a ... Together with Johannes Heinrich, a research ...
Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next?The Guardian
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Cliff Curtis' long shot as “The Dark Horse” pays off - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
“Once I started to play chess and to really research him and research about the condition, the bipolar disorder, and the medication he had to take, and then I met his family, his wife and his son, once I got into the world of it, it evolved. It was an ...
'Dark Horse' a loving portrait of hero – Webber, Hurd-Wood to star in Joe Dante's chiller 'Labirintus'Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
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Cuba: Détente or Monroe Doctrine Imperial Plot? Washington's Intent: “Bay of Pigs Invasion with a Smile” - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Cuba has produced numerous computer games, including a popular program that teaches how to play chess; it has produced cell-phone platforms as well as a popular operating system; and of course, it has produced software for the health sector, including ...
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