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Calendar of Events: Feb. 14 - 19 - The Daily Courier
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Scholastic Chess Tournament for K-12, 8:30 a.m., Yavapai College Building 3, Room 119. Call Tom at 740-803-2532 or 928-778-1111 or email tagreen@owu.edu for questions or to pre-register. Ham radio licensing class, 8:45 a.m., Jeep Posse Building, 1200 ...
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Humans could soon be playing pictionary with computers - Research Matters
Research Matters
Research Matters
Researchers at Department of Computational and Data Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed the first computational model aimed at Pictionary- an image based word guessing game. In 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer ...
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Human could soon be playing pictionary with computers - Research Matters
Research Matters
Research Matters
Researchers at Department of Computational and Data Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed the first computational model aimed at Pictionary- an image based word guessing game. In 1997, Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer ...
ASU Associate Professor Gary Moore recognized nationally as exceptional mentor - ASU News Now
ASU News Now
ASU News Now
He received his doctorate from ASU under Ana L. Moore in 2009 then spent two years as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Energy Fellow at Yale University working with Gary W. Brudvig and Robert H. Crabtree before starting an independent research career at ...
The Future of Art According to Elizabeth Diller - Artsy
Elizabeth Diller's interdisciplinary design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has generated some of the contemporary art world's most inspiring spaces—including ...
Mattel Gives UNO an Upgraded Companion With New Card Game DOS - HYPEBEAST
The card game that's brought friends together and comically torn them apart is back, with a twist; Mattel's UNO card game will soon welcome DOS, its befitting ...
How can New Jersey close its infant mortality gap? - NJTV News
NJTV News
NJTV News
Research has shown us that higher housing segregation contributes to poorer schools, poorer access to health care, poor birth outcomes and more violence in communities,” said Dr. Denise Rodgers, vice chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ...
3 TV Shows That Ended Too Soon (That Aren't FIREFLY) - GeekTyrant
GeekTyrant
GeekTyrant
The Cape was a superhero show on NBC in 2011. It was given 13 episodes, but after poor ratings, it only got 10 episodes. This lead to the main story not finishing. The story revolves around a cop named Vince Faraday (played by David Lyons) who switches ...
Quad Cities in brief: Reconstruction project to start this week | The ... - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
The City of Prescott is scheduled to begin reconstruction projects along Rosser Street this week, the city has announced in a statement. Work may occur from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, along Rosser Street, from Campbell Avenue to just east ...
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Quad Cities in brief: Reconstruction project to start this week - The Daily Courier
The Daily Courier
The Prescott Chess Club will hold a Scholastic Chess Tournament for students in grades K-12, on Saturday, Feb. 17, at Yavapai College, Building 3, Room 119. Everyone plays five games (at 9:30 a.m., 10:45 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 1:30 p.m., and 2:40 p.m.) or ...
Partnership Establishes First Annual Scholastic Chess Championships | Sheriff - Erie.gov
From Runway to Chessboard: The Chess Uniform Experiment - World Chess Hall of Fame |
Just Working Harder Won't Get You Ahead. Working Smarter Will. - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
But we're not all aspiring grandmasters, so here's a more real-world example: Just as the best chess players in the world get there through serious study, research has shown that “structured reflection” of one's performance has a positive impact on ...
Wristband 145: Behind The Play That Confused The Patriots and Gave The Eagles The Super Bowl LII Win - Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
The interesting thing to note here: Coaches can be smart and draw up bright plays. But if they don't have a Wentz or Foles to pick the right option and deliver the ball accurately, and if they don't have the speed back to win against linebackers and ...
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Monthly Music Series: Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards - South County Times
South County Times
The Monthly Music Series at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End, will feature Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards on Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. Enjoy an evening of rowdy, delicate and cinematic folk music as this ...
Composer Spotlight Series: Mozart - West End Word
West End Word
West End Word
The Composer Spotlight Series at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave., will feature Mozart on Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m. Enjoy an evening of the symphonic, operatic, choral and chamber music stylings of one of the most beloved and ...
Color and Form with Eugenia Alexander - West End Word
West End Word
Color and Form with Eugenia Alexander will be held Wednesday, Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m., at the World Chess Hall of Fame, 4652 Maryland Ave. in the Central West End. Be inspired by the World Chess Hall of Fame exhibition Victor Vasarely: Calculated ...
Round robin on 64 squares - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Whitlock teaches at Memorial Park and worked with Koerner on the chess club when they both were at Miami. When Whitlock moved to Memorial Park, chess competitions for students at both schools were organized. “The other schools found out we were playing ...
Round robin on 64 squares - Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
“The other schools found out we were playing each other, and they wanted in,” Whitlock said. Chess proponents say the game can be valuable as an educational tool. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis says on its website chess “teaches ...
AlphaGo: How AI Has Opened Our Eyes - Reporter Magazine
Reporter Magazine
Reporter Magazine
The film begins in London at DeepMind Technologies, a Google-owned research center where AlphaGo is being perfected by a team of developers. Much like a simulator of chess, AlphaGo has an advanced understanding of the board game Go. The only difference ...