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More than 6100 Visitors Expected in the South Shore between March 18 and 21, 2016 - ValpoLife.com
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Lutheran Basketball in Valparaiso; Scholastic Chess in Hammond; Illinois YMCA Swim in St. John; and the Hoosier Volleyball Challenge 3 in Hobart will bring more than 6,100 visitors to the South Shore region. Participants and spectators are expected to ...
Don't Forget Humans Created The Computer Program That Can Beat Humans At Go - FiveThirtyEight
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FiveThirtyEight
Go, an ancient Chinese board game, is far more complex than chess and was seen as a kind of final frontier in AI research — a moonshot to spur technological progress. Before this week, machine dominance in Go had been seen as an achievement still ...
What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For EducationNPR
Computer Beats World's Top Go Player In Historic MatchCardPlayer.com
Artificial intelligence: Use it well for a society where humans can thriveChicago Tribune
DeepMind -Pearson -Affective Computing Group - MIT -New York Times
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Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI - NewsFactor Network
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NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer scientists at Microsoft have designed a new research project that enables them to use the ...
Recent News Puts AI In The SpotlightFileHippo News
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Why your middle-aged brain is not declining - Minnesota Public Radio News
Minnesota Public Radio News
Minnesota Public Radio News
But even if it doesn't work, brain researchers have great news for people 30 and up who feel their brains are slowing down. We can get smarter. ... In fact, studies have found that older air traffic controllers, pilots and chess masters outperform ...
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Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
So Far, There's No Magic Bullet For The MindNPR
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WHS chess team wins conference - Waupaca County News
Waupaca County News
Waupaca County News
This weekend, the Comets will head to the State Scholastic Chess Tournament at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, where the team will enter three five-player teams in the high school varsity competition. “We will probably end up with one team in each ...
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel raises $1B to plow into startups | New ... - New York Post
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New York Post
Peter Thiel has raised yet another billion-dollar tech fund. The Silicon Valley maverick — an early Facebook investor who has since made big bets on marijuana, ...
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Science of Learning 101: Job Performance and Expertise - ATD (blog)
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ATD (blog)
It's widely known that expert chess players invest 10,000 to 50,000 hours to reach master level. Researchers have found that it may take similar amounts of time to reach expert/master status in other fields, but cognitive science research shows that we ...
Kings of Lancaster: WHS chess team wins league championship ... - Lititz Record Express
Lititz Record Express
Lititz Record Express
Members of the Warwick High School chess team recently won the Lancaster Scholastic Chess League Championship for the fourth time in five years. The team ...
WHS chess team wins conference - Waupaca County PostWaupaca County News
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With artificial intelligence having beaten humans in board games, what's next? - Phys.Org
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Long a yardstick for advances in AI, the era of board game testing has come to an end, said Murray Campbell, an IBM research scientist who was part of the team that developed Deep Blue, the first computer program to beat a world chess champion. "Games ...
Do You Canoe? Notes From a Paddlers Gathering - Seven Days
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Seven Days
Dartmouth ethnobotany doctoral candidate Simone Whitecloud shared her research on some of the 500 plant species in Greenland, as well as her hopes to create a trilingual website in English, Inuit and Danish covering the plants' edible, medicinal and ...
A Giant Leap for Machine Kind; When Robots Can See - WVTF
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WVTF
And there've passed many milestones; Computers winning at Chess and now the Chinese game, GO, and apps like Siri on an iPhone answering all manner of questions. But as smart as all that sounds, it's nothing compared the kind of nuanced ... Last fall ...
Where computers defeat humans | GulfNews.com - gulfnews.com
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gulfnews.com
Deep learning and reinforcement learning have both been around for a while but until recently it was not at all clear how powerful they were and how far they ...
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Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard - Motherboard
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Motherboard
David Levy and Adrian David Cheok, founders of the annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, assert we're very close now to creating a sex robot, going ...
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Eagerly We Await the Coming of the Sex Robots | Motherboard - Motherboard
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Motherboard
David Levy and Adrian David Cheok, founders of the annual Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, assert we're very close now to creating a sex robot, going ...
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What Artificial Intelligence Could Mean For Education : NPR Ed : NPR - NPR
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NPR
Recent advances — such as the victory over a human Go champion — raise important questions about AI's potential role in teaching and learning.
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BDS and 'Intersectionality' — a Match Made in Hell - Algemeiner
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... Self-Determination/Black Struggle for Liberation” and Jasbir Puar, a Rutgers Gender/Queer Studies professor, delivers a diatribe accusing Israel of harvesting Palestinian organs for research, experimenting on Palestinian children and targeting ...
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Video games can help promote a better learning experience - The Daily Titan
The Daily Titan
The Daily Titan
They are like chess or any other game in which success depends on perseverance, intelligence, practice and learning, not chance,” said Peter Gray, Ph.D., a research professor at Boston College. Gaming stimulates the reward centers of a person's brain.
Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ... - NewsFactor Network
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NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer ...
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Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AI | NewsFactor ... - NewsFactor Network
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NewsFactor Network
Minecraft has always been a game of creativity and imagination. But now it will also be a testing ground for advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Computer ...
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