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AlphaGo Might Be The Most Effective Marketing Campaign Ever - MediaPost Communications

Chess Research - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:08

AlphaGo Might Be The Most Effective Marketing Campaign Ever
MediaPost Communications
The ancient game of Go is a googol times more complex than chess, the total number of possible moves greater than the number of atoms in the universe. The best players make decisions on the basis of intuition and feel, areas in which humans have ...

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Artificial intelligence steals money from banking customers - Science Magazine

Chess Research - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 08:04

Science Magazine

Artificial intelligence steals money from banking customers
Science Magazine
Just a few weeks ago, AI researchers were riding high as a computer program developed by Google DeepMind in London beat the world's top-ranked player at the board game Go, a computational task far harder than winning at chess. Many experts said the ...

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Innovation Lab: Connected Launderettes, Smart Suitcases and Police Drones - MobileMarketing Magazine

Chess Research - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 06:53

MobileMarketing Magazine

Innovation Lab: Connected Launderettes, Smart Suitcases and Police Drones
MobileMarketing Magazine
“When the human body experiences a sneeze, there are hugely complex changes in pressure throughout different areas of the nasal cavity, mouth, windpipe and lungs in a matter of seconds,” said Dr Albert Ergich, chief researcher for the project and ...

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7 Great Things to Do This Weekend - Riverfront Times (blog)

World Chess Hall of Fame - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 06:28

Riverfront Times (blog)

7 Great Things to Do This Weekend
Riverfront Times (blog)
You can try your hand at the World Chess Hall of Fame's giant chess set, enter a trivia contest or thrill to classic episodes of Nickelodeon's Double Dare, Nick Arcade and Legends of the Hidden Temple. At 10 p.m. Edgar Wright's cult classic film Scott ...

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Studies Prove That You Can Do This Crazy Thing in Your Sleep - Brit + Co

Chess Research - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 04:58

Brit + Co

Studies Prove That You Can Do This Crazy Thing in Your Sleep
Brit + Co
... the scent of the candle that was burning while you learned chess. At the very least, it's promising that a good bit of research has been dedicated to this often under appreciated part of our lives, especially in a culture that frowns upon ...

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Yamamoto: Mugabe's incredible Japan folly - The Zimbabwean

Chess Research - Fri, 04/01/2016 - 02:58

The Zimbabwean

Yamamoto: Mugabe's incredible Japan folly
The Zimbabwean
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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Chess match features 4-way tie - Arizona Daily Sun

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 23:02

Arizona Daily Sun

Chess match features 4-way tie
Arizona Daily Sun
The second state chess qualifier for Northern Arizona Chess Center was held at Flagstaff High School, sponsored by Killip Chess Power, on March 26. Students were trying to qualify for Arizona State Scholastic Chess Championships which will be held in ...

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Yamamoto: Mugabe's incredible Japan folly - New Zimbabwe.com

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 22:46

New Zimbabwe.com

Yamamoto: Mugabe's incredible Japan folly
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

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 18:41

Haaretz

Forget About Big Data: Teaching Computers to Think Just Like Humans Is the New Big Thing
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 ...

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JCHS chess team racks up trophies in tournament debut - Jweekly.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 15:27

Jweekly.com

JCHS chess team racks up trophies in tournament debut
Jweekly.com
The JCHS squad competed with more than 1,000 players from around the state at the 41st annual CalChess Scholastic State Chess Championship, held March 18-20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Sophomores Jesse Lieberman and Ben Michelson ...

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JCHS chess team racks up trophies in tournament debut - Jweekly.com

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 15:27

Jweekly.com

JCHS chess team racks up trophies in tournament debut
Jweekly.com
The JCHS squad competed with more than 1,000 players from around the state at the 41st annual CalChess Scholastic State Chess Championship, held March 18-20 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Sophomores Jesse Lieberman and Ben Michelson ...

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Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles - Medical Xpress

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 12:22

Medical Xpress

Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles
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

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:27

Washington Post

Prince George's County community calendar, March 31-April 6, 2016
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)

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:16

EurekAlert (press release)

Motor learning tied to intelligent control of sensory neurons in muscles Umea University
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 ...

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How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence - MIT Technology Review

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:53

MIT Technology Review

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence
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

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:22

WT VOX

Cyberbullying The A.I. And The Exposure Of Children Online
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 ...

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Study shows rural areas lacking after-school programs (+video) - Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 09:59

Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Study shows rural areas lacking after-school programs (+video)
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

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 09:42

Sherman Denison Herald Democrat

Study shows rural areas lacking afterschool programs (+video)
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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The Guardian: Alta's Ohno Wieringa - Powder Magazine

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 06:19

The Guardian: Alta's Ohno Wieringa
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 ...

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With imagination and patience, a piece of wood becomes a thing of beauty - Norwich Bulletin

Chess Research - Thu, 03/31/2016 - 04:57

Norwich Bulletin

With imagination and patience, a piece of wood becomes a thing of beauty
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 ...

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