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Henderson Middle School Chess Team takes State; Nationals next in Indy - El Paso Herald-Post (press release) (registration) (blog)
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Henderson Middle School Chess Team takes State; Nationals next in Indy
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The Henderson Middle School chess team has done it again and won big at the 2016 Texas Scholastic Chess Championships over the weekend. The team brought home more than a dozen trophies and two first place wins in the novice and junior varsity ...
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The Henderson Middle School chess team has done it again and won big at the 2016 Texas Scholastic Chess Championships over the weekend. The team brought home more than a dozen trophies and two first place wins in the novice and junior varsity ...
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Chess kings, queens conquer Oklahoma contests - NewsOK.com
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Chess kings, queens conquer Oklahoma contests
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DEL CITY — Del City High School hosted 172 chess players from 39 Oklahoma schools and homeschool associations at the 2016 Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Championships. The tournament Feb. 27 determined state champions in five divisions based on ...
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DEL CITY — Del City High School hosted 172 chess players from 39 Oklahoma schools and homeschool associations at the 2016 Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Championships. The tournament Feb. 27 determined state champions in five divisions based on ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Getting Watsoned: Why robots could spell disaster for India's IT sector - Scroll.in
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Getting Watsoned: Why robots could spell disaster for India's IT sector
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Last week, 20 years after a computer named Deep Blue defeated the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a machine called AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, the best player of Go, a game more complex than chess and popular mainly in East Asia. While that ...
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Last week, 20 years after a computer named Deep Blue defeated the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a machine called AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, the best player of Go, a game more complex than chess and popular mainly in East Asia. While that ...
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10 Enduring Myths About Artificial Intelligence, Debunked By Science - Lifehacker Australia
Lifehacker Australia
10 Enduring Myths About Artificial Intelligence, Debunked By Science
Lifehacker Australia
Reality: We already have computers that match or exceed human capacities in games like chess and Go, stock market trading and conversations. Computers and the algorithms that drive them can only get better, and it will only be a matter of time before ...
Lifehacker Australia
Reality: We already have computers that match or exceed human capacities in games like chess and Go, stock market trading and conversations. Computers and the algorithms that drive them can only get better, and it will only be a matter of time before ...
Categories: Chess Research
Crossing AI threshold, computer program conquers world's most complex game - The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
Crossing AI threshold, computer program conquers world's most complex game
The Globe and Mail
For him, the more pertinent question concerns the future of an entire field of research now that one of the holy grails of artificial intelligence has been claimed at last – notably, by a group that was backed not by a university but by one of the ...
The Globe and Mail
For him, the more pertinent question concerns the future of an entire field of research now that one of the holy grails of artificial intelligence has been claimed at last – notably, by a group that was backed not by a university but by one of the ...
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Poker (or Magic: The Gathering) Will Be the Next Game We Lose to DeepMind - Inverse
Inverse
Poker (or Magic: The Gathering) Will Be the Next Game We Lose to DeepMind
Inverse
Go joins checkers, chess, Scrabble, and Jeopardy on the list of games conquered by artificial intelligence. What will humanity lose at next? We know the next game won't look like chess or Go, because there's simply nothing like them left for an ...
Inverse
Go joins checkers, chess, Scrabble, and Jeopardy on the list of games conquered by artificial intelligence. What will humanity lose at next? We know the next game won't look like chess or Go, because there's simply nothing like them left for an ...
Categories: Chess Research
Four takeaways from AlphaGo's victory over a world champion Go player - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Four takeaways from AlphaGo's victory over a world champion Go player
Los Angeles Times
Computers have bested humans in checkers, chess and now, Go. Board games were long viewed as the perfect test for AI because they have clear rules and nothing is hidden from players. Researchers look to see if the computer programs learn from past ...
Machines Defeated Lee Sedol at Go and Me at Jeopardy! What Happens When They Defeat Us All?Slate Magazine
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1NPR
AlphaGo Wins Final Game In Match Against Champion Go PlayerIEEE Spectrum
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Los Angeles Times
Computers have bested humans in checkers, chess and now, Go. Board games were long viewed as the perfect test for AI because they have clear rules and nothing is hidden from players. Researchers look to see if the computer programs learn from past ...
Machines Defeated Lee Sedol at Go and Me at Jeopardy! What Happens When They Defeat Us All?Slate Magazine
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1NPR
AlphaGo Wins Final Game In Match Against Champion Go PlayerIEEE Spectrum
InformationWeek -Wall Street Journal -The Economist -DeepMind
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In pursuit of empathetic machines | TechCrunch - TechCrunch
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In pursuit of empathetic machines | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next-generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of ...
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The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next-generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of ...
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Chess team takes second - Sauk Prairie Eagle
Chess team takes second
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The Sauk Prairie Middle School Chess Team traveled to Baraboo High School to compete in the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation tournament Feb. 27. Eight teams attended, with students from Fox Lake, Waunakee, Milwaukee, Baraboo, and Sauk ...
Sauk Prairie Eagle
The Sauk Prairie Middle School Chess Team traveled to Baraboo High School to compete in the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation tournament Feb. 27. Eight teams attended, with students from Fox Lake, Waunakee, Milwaukee, Baraboo, and Sauk ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Computers turning their intelligence to real-life human issues - The Nation
Computers turning their intelligence to real-life human issues
The Nation
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) has achieved another milestone. Yesterday, Google's AlphaGo, an AI programme, beat one of the world's best Go players, champion Lee Se-dol of South Korea, four to one in a five-game match. This underscored the ...
The Nation
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) has achieved another milestone. Yesterday, Google's AlphaGo, an AI programme, beat one of the world's best Go players, champion Lee Se-dol of South Korea, four to one in a five-game match. This underscored the ...
Categories: Chess Research
'Intersectionality' and the Bizarre World of Hating Israel - Observer
Observer
'Intersectionality' and the Bizarre World of Hating Israel
Observer
... 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 ...
Observer
... 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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Guadalajara, Mexico's Party City - New York Times
New York Times
Guadalajara, Mexico's Party City
New York Times
In the last few years, the local pottery maker Cerámica Suro has started producing pieces for the likes of Jorge Pardo, Marcel Dzama and Rirkrit Tiravanija. ''We're out of the mainstream here,'' says Francisco ''Curro'' Borrego Vergara, a Guadalajara ...
New York Times
In the last few years, the local pottery maker Cerámica Suro has started producing pieces for the likes of Jorge Pardo, Marcel Dzama and Rirkrit Tiravanija. ''We're out of the mainstream here,'' says Francisco ''Curro'' Borrego Vergara, a Guadalajara ...
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1 - NPR
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Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1
NPR
"Go has been an outstanding grand challenge of AI research for at least the last twenty years," says Demis Hassabis, who heads DeepMind. A computer had already beaten a human champion at chess decades ago. But Go has more possible moves than ...
Machines Defeated Lee Sedol at Go and Me at Jeopardy! What Happens When They Defeat Us All?Slate Magazine
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee SedolWIRED
AlphaGo Software Storms Back to Beat Human in Final GameWall Street Journal
Fortune -The Economist -DeepMind -新华搜索 - 新华网
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"Go has been an outstanding grand challenge of AI research for at least the last twenty years," says Demis Hassabis, who heads DeepMind. A computer had already beaten a human champion at chess decades ago. But Go has more possible moves than ...
Machines Defeated Lee Sedol at Go and Me at Jeopardy! What Happens When They Defeat Us All?Slate Magazine
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee SedolWIRED
AlphaGo Software Storms Back to Beat Human in Final GameWall Street Journal
Fortune -The Economist -DeepMind -新华搜索 - 新华网
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Foreign Policy Analyst: Russia Got What They Wanted From Syria - CBS Local
CBS Local
Foreign Policy Analyst: Russia Got What They Wanted From Syria
CBS Local
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Foreign policy analyst Ed Turzanski assessed Russia's decision to start withdrawing troops from Syria and concluded their President Vladimir Putin thinks his goals have been fulfilled for now, but will return if he feels necessary.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Foreign policy analyst Ed Turzanski assessed Russia's decision to start withdrawing troops from Syria and concluded their President Vladimir Putin thinks his goals have been fulfilled for now, but will return if he feels necessary.
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Artificial Intelligence Learns the Ways of Minecraft - TechNewsWorld
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Artificial Intelligence Learns the Ways of Minecraft
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Microsoft on Monday unveiled AIX, a platform that its researchers have been using to turn Minecraft into an artificial intelligence learning environment. Although Microsoft's 2014 decision to buy Minecraft ... A five-person team at Microsoft Research's ...
Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AINewsFactor Network
Microsoft to bolster artificial intelligence using MinecraftInquirer
Project AIX: Using Minecraft to build more intelligent technology - Next at Microsoft - The Official Microsoft Blog ...The Official Microsoft Blog - Microsoft
BBC News -Microsoft Research -BBC News
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TechNewsWorld
Microsoft on Monday unveiled AIX, a platform that its researchers have been using to turn Minecraft into an artificial intelligence learning environment. Although Microsoft's 2014 decision to buy Minecraft ... A five-person team at Microsoft Research's ...
Microsoft Researchers Using Minecraft To Test AINewsFactor Network
Microsoft to bolster artificial intelligence using MinecraftInquirer
Project AIX: Using Minecraft to build more intelligent technology - Next at Microsoft - The Official Microsoft Blog ...The Official Microsoft Blog - Microsoft
BBC News -Microsoft Research -BBC News
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The Go Champion, the Grandmaster, and Me - Slate Magazine
Slate Magazine
The Go Champion, the Grandmaster, and Me
Slate Magazine
It's been almost exactly 20 years since the prototype for this kind of media circus was created, when world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue in Philadelphia in February 1996. (Kasparov would lose the rematch the following year.) IBM ...
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee SedolWIRED
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1NPR
AlphaGo Software Storms Back to Beat Human in Final GameWall Street Journal
The Economist -Fortune -Reuters -DeepMind
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Slate Magazine
It's been almost exactly 20 years since the prototype for this kind of media circus was created, when world chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue in Philadelphia in February 1996. (Kasparov would lose the rematch the following year.) IBM ...
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee SedolWIRED
Achievement Unlocked: Google AlphaGo AI Wins Go Series, 4-1NPR
AlphaGo Software Storms Back to Beat Human in Final GameWall Street Journal
The Economist -Fortune -Reuters -DeepMind
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Jay Williams enters conversation as Rutgers basketball coaching candidate - NJ.com
NJ.com
Jay Williams enters conversation as Rutgers basketball coaching candidate
NJ.com
While playing point guard at nearby St. Joseph-Metuchen, Williams morphed into New Jersey's most sought after recruit in the late 1990s, earning state Player of the Year honors and being named a Parade scholastic All-American. An avid chess player, ...
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NJ.com
While playing point guard at nearby St. Joseph-Metuchen, Williams morphed into New Jersey's most sought after recruit in the late 1990s, earning state Player of the Year honors and being named a Parade scholastic All-American. An avid chess player, ...
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Jay Williams enters conversation as Rutgers basketball coaching candidate - NJ.com
NJ.com
Jay Williams enters conversation as Rutgers basketball coaching candidate
NJ.com
While playing point guard at nearby St. Joseph-Metuchen, Williams morphed into New Jersey's most sought after recruit in the late 1990s, earning state Player of the Year honors and being named a Parade scholastic All-American. An avid chess player, ...
NJ.com
While playing point guard at nearby St. Joseph-Metuchen, Williams morphed into New Jersey's most sought after recruit in the late 1990s, earning state Player of the Year honors and being named a Parade scholastic All-American. An avid chess player, ...
Categories: Scholastic Chess
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee Sedol - WIRED
WIRED
Google's AI Wins Fifth And Final Game Against Go Genius Lee Sedol
WIRED
But this is the first time a machine has topped the very best at Go—a 2,500-year-old game that's exponentially more complex than chess and that requires, at least among humans, an added degree of intuition. Game Five grew into the most exciting of the ...
Google artificial intelligence program beats S. Korean Go pro with 4-1 scoreReuters
Google AlphaGo caps victory by winning final historic Go matchZDNet
AI 4 Human 1: Google DeepMind beats Go champion Lee Sedol in a tense final gameBusiness Insider UK
ZME Science -Forbes -CIO -DeepMind
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WIRED
But this is the first time a machine has topped the very best at Go—a 2,500-year-old game that's exponentially more complex than chess and that requires, at least among humans, an added degree of intuition. Game Five grew into the most exciting of the ...
Google artificial intelligence program beats S. Korean Go pro with 4-1 scoreReuters
Google AlphaGo caps victory by winning final historic Go matchZDNet
AI 4 Human 1: Google DeepMind beats Go champion Lee Sedol in a tense final gameBusiness Insider UK
ZME Science -Forbes -CIO -DeepMind
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AI: The height of sophistication - ITProPortal
ITProPortal
AI: The height of sophistication
ITProPortal
... only need to ask Siri to Google it for you, but since the 1980s AI research has been a major industry and has slowly started to help us with everything from manufacturing cars, to beating the greatest chess champion of all time Garry Kasparov back ...
ITProPortal
... only need to ask Siri to Google it for you, but since the 1980s AI research has been a major industry and has slowly started to help us with everything from manufacturing cars, to beating the greatest chess champion of all time Garry Kasparov back ...
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