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Fort Worth elementary to play in state chess championship - FOX 4 News
A trip to the Texas State Scholastic Chess Championship is a chance of a lifetime for some Fort Worth elementary students.
This Week's Photos: March 8, 2018 - St. Louis American
St. Louis American
St. Louis Language School's Chinese Immersion Program fourth-grader Mose Ogunrinde participated in the school's New Year celebration honoring the Year of the Brown Dog on Feb. 15. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American. Facebook · Twitter · Email ...
Books editor's blog: Bridget Jones' lab diary – v. hormonal today - Times Higher Education (THE)
Times Higher Education (THE)
Times Higher Education (THE)
Critics of earlier popular works of evolutionary psychology have sometimes claimed that their authors seem to imagine the prehistoric past as being a bit like The Flintstones . For Haselton, ancestral women were caught in precisely Bridget Jones ...
Anatoly Lein, Soviet great-turned-US star, dies at 86 - Washington Times
Washington Times
Lein, whose long career included wins over such greats as Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal and induction into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2005, earned a permanent entry in the annals of Washington-area chess by winning 1976 U.S. Open, held on the ...
Global Chess Market 2018 – The House of Staunton, ChessSUA, CNCHESS, ChessBaron - Anglophone Tribune
Anglophone Tribune
Anglophone Tribune
The analysis offers a global market share of companies so as to provide a wider outline of the key players in the Chess Market. Moreover, the report also entails the market's key strategic developments consisting of research & development, new product ...
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Global Chess Market 2018 – The House of Staunton, ChessSUA, CNCHESS, ChessBaron - Anglophone Tribune
Anglophone Tribune
Anglophone Tribune
The analysis offers a global market share of companies so as to provide a wider outline of the key players in the Chess Market. Moreover, the report also entails the market's key strategic developments consisting of research & development, new product ...
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David Lynch's Festival of Disruption Announces New York Lineup - HYPEBEAST
After two years in LA, the Festival of Disruption organized by David Lynch — best known as director and co-creator of “Twin Peaks” — has announced that it will ...
David Lynch's Festival of Disruption Announces New York Lineup - HYPEBEAST
After two years in LA, the Festival of Disruption organized by David Lynch — best known as director and co-creator of “Twin Peaks” — has announced that it will ...
Anatoly Lein, Soviet great-turned-U.S. star, dies at 86 - Washington Times
Anatoly Lein, the Leningrad-born grandmaster who was one of the last living members of the wave of Soviet refugees who transformed the U.S. chess landscape ...
Biodesign researchers lead community dialogue on Alzheimer's disease research - Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Arizona State University
Nearly 80 people attended the Biodesign Institute's latest “Sip of Science” event Sunday evening at Tomaso's restaurant in Phoenix. Neuroscientists Paul Coleman and Diego Mastroeni took questions from the audience about the latest Alzheimer's science ...
Anatoly Lein, an Émigré Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 86 - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
Anatoly Lein, a Russian-born American chess grandmaster who was among the world's top 30 players at his peak, won two of the most prestigious tournaments in the United States and recorded victories against some of the game's greatest players, died on ...
Govies defend state chess title - SCNow
SCNow
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - After a strong start in the first two rounds, the GSSM Chess Eagles fought back hard from third round setbacks to regain the lead and capture the State Scholastic Chess Championship among high schools for a second consecutive year ...
Smith, Wheat competes in Quad County UIL meet - Cleburne Times-Review
Cleburne Times-Review
Cleburne Times-Review
I may not be the best at it, but I think I'm OK.” Stinnett said he liked the research involved in the dictionary skills event. “They give us a packet of information, with questions we need to answer using the dictionary,” he said. “I like using my ...
Teaching computers to guide science: Machine learning method sees forests and trees - Science Daily
Science Daily
The needs of machine learning in science are different from that of industry, where machine learning has been used for things like playing chess, making self-driving cars, and predicting the stock market. "The machine learning developed by industry is ...
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In the Global Media Chess Game, Comcast Aims for the Sky - Knowledge@Wharton
Knowledge@Wharton
It would lead to too much concentration of news within the Murdoch family,” said Ian Whittaker, head of European media research at Liberum Capital on the Knowledge@Wharton show on SiriusXM channel 111. In particular, the Murdoch's right-leaning ...
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Lourdes High School to host 2018 City Cup Chess Tournament - KTTC
KTTC
KTTC
Lourdes High School will host the 19th annual City Cup Chess Tournament conducted by the Rochester Area Scholastic Chess League on Saturday March 10, 2018. Each of Rochester's high schools will participate in the tournament as well as multiple players ...
Teaching Computers to Guide Science: New Machine Learning Method Sees the Forests and the Trees - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
While it may be the era of supercomputers and “big data,” without smart methods to mine all that data, it's only so much digital detritus. Now researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC ...
AI Innovator Sebastian Thrun and Chess Grandmaster Garry ... - Markets Insider
Markets Insider
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --HIGHLIGHTS: Leading Decisions conference on AI, applied analytics, and decision management will take place Ap...
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AI Innovator Sebastian Thrun and Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov to Headline FICO World 2018 - PR Newswire (press release)
PR Newswire (press release)
... an online private educational organization. He was a Google Fellow and vice president, and a research professor at Stanford University. Thrun works on revolutionizing transportation, education, and mobile devices. At Google, he founded Google X ...
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Homeless Veterans Are "Slipping Through The Net", Research Suggests - Forces Network
Forces Network
Forces Network
Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion and critic of Vladimir Putin, was among those who drew comparisons with the death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. But Igor Sutyagin, who was part of the same swap deal as Skripal and is ...
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