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Shatranj, a game in theory - The Hindu
The Hindu
The Hindu
It is no surprise that the game-loving Yudhishthira declares thus his intention to enter into King Virata's court by, “presenting myself as a Brahmana, Kanka by name, skilled in dice and fond of play... and [by] moving upon chess-boards beautiful pawns ...
Abington Chess Team Wins Two State Championships - Patch.com
Patch.com
Patch.com
The Abington Ghosts chess team won two State Championships at the Pennsylvania State Chess Federation Scholastic Championship in Lancaster, PA on March 5th and 6th. Junior Dennis Phan scored a perfect 5-0 to capture the u1300 State Individual ...
REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts
Redlands Daily Facts
Chess club: Redlands Chess Club meets 2 to 5 p.m. every Friday at Redlands Community Senior Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave. Players of all ages are welcome, from ... Anyone interested in genealogy research is welcome to attend. Information: www.yvgs.org; ...
Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? Interview with Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber on Deep Learning - InfoQ.com
InfoQ.com
That's why real-world games such as football are much harder than chess or Go, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for RL robots living in partially observable environments will need more sophisticated learning algorithms, e.g., RL for recurrent ...
Tonight: Watch an AI Take On One of the World's Best Go Players - Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics
It was an amazing leap forward for neural networks. While it's been generally accepted that even the world's best chess players can be beat by a chess program running on commercially available hardware since the mid-2000s, Go has resisted the brute ...
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificialDeutsche Welle
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
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Community news - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
... annual Scholastic Chess of Indiana State Team Chess Championships from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 19. Students in grades K through 12 from across the state will compete to be called the top school teams. This tournament is the largest USCF rated chess ...
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Community news - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Join scientist Bob Brodman at 1 p.m. March 26 for a program on amphibians based upon his research work at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The program is presented at the Paul H. Douglas Center as part of its weekly Saturday Open House Series.
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For International Women's Day, meet LA's first female head librarian – a teenager who settled bar bets and worked to ... - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Foy also established a Dewey Decimal catalog system, hosted the Ladies Reading Room, and refereed chess games in the Newspaper Room. William Mulholland, who was designing the city's aqueduct system, came to the library asking if he could take home a ...
The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain" - Scientific American
Scientific American
Scientific American
Now the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research organization for the intelligence community modeled after the defense department's famed DARPA, has dedicated $100 million to a similarly ambitious project. The Machine ...
Education Matters: Whiteside Middle School reading event included running - Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
After the scavenger hunt and snack, parents were invited to the Scholastic Book Fair and more reading-based events. “I think it's a great .... Immaculate Conception School's James Ramette came in 15th of 156 players at the IESA State Chess Championship.
Education Matters: Whiteside Middle School reading event included running - Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
Belleville News-Democrat
A teacher and nine students at Signal Hill School in Belleville again participated in the St. Baldrick's Foundation event, where they shaved their heads after raising more than $5,500 for childhood cancer research. Fifth-grade teacher Kyle Selliers ...
AlphaGo: a computer program so close to human intelligence it's far from artificial - Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle
Strategic games such as Go or chess - they're games we can all play but which, at the highest level, demand serious brain power as well as intuition and deep intelligence. Is this really the final frontier between human and artificial intelligence (AI ...
Google vs. Go: can AI beat the ultimate board game?The Verge
Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No GameWIRED
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
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Chess – World Chess Hall of Fame - Q Boutique
Apparel – World Chess Hall of Fame - Q Boutique
The Morning Download: Microsoft, Moving Beyond Windows, Will Offer Linux Version of SQL Server Database - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Microsoft was ceding 15% of the $29.8 billion database market, by IDC Research Inc.'s measurements, to Linux-compatible products from rivals such as Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. But the shift would have ... Developed in China ...
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Google's AI Is About to Battle a Go Champion—But This Is No Game - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
At one o'clock in the afternoon local time, a digital Google creation will challenge one of the world's top players at the game of Go, the ancient Eastern pastime that's often compared to chess—though it's exponentially more complex. ... extreme ...
Pakistan pledges to prioritize Afghan peace processWSOC Charlotte
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric SchmidtZDNet
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
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RVCC Offers Young Scientists a Range of Projects - Creating DNA, Making Insect Repellent, Writing Computer Coding ... - TAPinto.net
TAPinto.net
Introduction to Scholastic Chess: Students ages 6-14 will be introduced to the wonderful world of scholastic chess. Participants will be given the rules of the game and opportunities to play, as well as many resources available to improve at the game ...
AlphaGo match 'a win for humanity': Eric Schmidt - ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet
Four more matches are due to be played on March 10, 12, 13, and 15, with the winner taking $1 million. If AlphaGo wins, the money will be donated to Unicef and STEM for research and education. ... Go, a Chinese board game, has 10761 possible games ...
Google's artificial intelligence machine to battle human champion of 'Go'The Guardian
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo will take on Go world champion this weekDaily Mail
Competition among AI Developers Becoming IntenseBusinessKorea
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Chess – Tagged "Chess Sets"– World Chess Hall of Fame - Q Boutique
Do Computer Coding Toys for Kids Really Work? - Live Science
Live Science
From beating the best human players at chess, to flying planes, to running stock market transactions, computers are now used in virtually every facet of modern-day life. But children aren't being adequately prepared to understand and use this ...
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