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REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR - Redlands Daily Facts

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 18:38

REDLANDS DAILY FACTS CALENDAR
Redlands Daily Facts
At today's meeting, Kevin Grisham, assistant director of research at Cal State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, will speak on “San Bernardino Shooting Aftermath: Resisting the Call of Hate.” The meeting is open to the public ...

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Can robots replace intelligence? Humanity? - Houston Chronicle

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 16:53

Houston Chronicle

Can robots replace intelligence? Humanity?
Houston Chronicle
Both research trajectories have made significant strides. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov, the reigning world chess champion, and in 2011, Watson beat "Jeopardy" whizzes Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, marking significant steps on the ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 16:01

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
24 at the Greenwich Academy, 200 N. Maple Ave., the 2016 Greenwich City Scholastic Chess Championship will be held. Registration is now open to all students from kindergarten through high school. Divisions will be arranged based on grade. Prizes are ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 16:01

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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Loose Lips Sink Careers, Even for CEOs - New York Times

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 14:24

New York Times

Loose Lips Sink Careers, Even for CEOs
New York Times
“This sort of becomes a chess match now of public opinion — which is sad, because ultimately it should be about the facts,” he said. Mr. Shkreli added: “I feel like I'm being prosecuted for being a jerk.” After hearing from him, I retained my ...

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Here's how the best-performing hedge fund of 2016 is crushing it - Business Insider

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 12:56

Business Insider

Here's how the best-performing hedge fund of 2016 is crushing it
Business Insider
giant chess, chess, knight Reuters/Luke MacGregorFigures from "The Tournament," a giant chess set designed by Jaime Hayon of Spain, seen by Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in central London in 2009.

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NYCB's New Art Series Installation Looks Wonderfully Weird - Dance Spirit

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 09:38

Dance Spirit

NYCB's New Art Series Installation Looks Wonderfully Weird
Dance Spirit
This year, NYCB has asked Marcel Dzama to create an installation. That's especially cool because Dzama is already wrapped up in the ballet world: He's also doing the sets and costumes for Justin Peck's upcoming premiere for NYCB, The Most Incredible ...

Relations Between Russia, Turkey Complicate ISIS Fight - Washington Free Beacon

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 09:05

Relations Between Russia, Turkey Complicate ISIS Fight
Washington Free Beacon
... followed by supposed documentation released by Russian officials to Russian state media, including RT and Sputnik, and then rapidly echoed by “independent research” groups often cited by Russian state media, including the Center for Research on ...

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5 Questions to Matthew Patton (composer, curator) - I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 06:14

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

5 Questions to Matthew Patton (composer, curator)
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Neil Farber, Michael Dumontier, and Marcel Dzama, Academy Award winning composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) is from Winnipeg and so is Neil Young. So is Douglas Rain who is the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space ...

Alexey Navalny's Very Strange Form of Freedom - The New Yorker

Chess Research - Fri, 01/15/2016 - 04:01

The New Yorker

Alexey Navalny's Very Strange Form of Freedom
The New Yorker
... in 2011 and 2012: Boris Nemtsov, the liberal, is dead, shot in view of the Kremlin in February of last year; Sergei Udaltsov, the radical leftist, is in jail, serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Russian ...

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77 compete in Winter Scholastic Chess - Madison Record

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 22:34

Greenwich Sentinel

77 compete in Winter Scholastic Chess
Madison Record
MADISON – Students ranging from kindergartners to high school teenagers exercised their brains on Jan. 9 at the Winter Scholastic Chess Tournament. Columbia Elementary School hosted the 77 students registered to compete in both Rated and Non-Rated ...
Students to Compete in Scholastic Chess ChampionshipGreenwich Sentinel

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Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity - The Conversation AU

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 19:37

The Conversation AU

Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity
The Conversation AU
Darrell Kemp receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery-Programs scheme grants DP140104107 & DP160103668). Martin Hilbert does not work ... Artificial intelligence can beat us in chess and on game shows. What's more, it's faster ...

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“It's Gravity Meets Night of the Living Dead!”: A Review of 400 Days - Locus Online

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 16:22

“It's Gravity Meets Night of the Living Dead!”: A Review of 400 Days
Locus Online
The astronauts are also given personal journals and playing cards, recalling Frank Poole's game of chess with HAL, and exercise machines are available in both The Martian and 400 Days (though Poole had to jog around Discovery's circular chamber ...

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Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition - New York Times

Marcel Dzama, Jon Crumiller - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 16:19

New York Times

Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition
New York Times
When the choreographer Justin Peck was thinking about a visual vocabulary for his new ballet, “The Most Incredible Thing,” based on the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name, he discovered Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner Gallery. “His work had ...

Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 15:55

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
24 at the Greenwich Academy, 200 N. Maple Ave., the 2016 Greenwich City Scholastic Chess Championship will be held. Registration is now open to all students from kindergarten through high school. Divisions will be arranged based on grade. Prizes are ...

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Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 15:55

Greenwich Time

Things to do in and around Greenwich
Greenwich Time
Sessions will include digital safety, file management and collaboration with Google Apps, research and personalized technology tools. Other sessions will take place on Jan. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Central Middle School, 9 Indian Rock Lane; Jan. 2 from 7 ...

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Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art - Long Beach Post

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 15:41

Long Beach Post

Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art
Long Beach Post
The park supervisor granted us access to the chess room, more than doubling the classroom space. Now, we are negotiating a closet. I would love to see a big, beautiful studio with a large gas kiln, but a closet would be a major victory! It is a really ...

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Students to Compete in Scholastic Chess Championship - Greenwich Sentinel

Scholastic Chess News Feed - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 14:19

Greenwich Sentinel

Students to Compete in Scholastic Chess Championship
Greenwich Sentinel
In addition, the top player in each of seven grade categories who resides in or attends school in Greenwich will receive a plaque as Greenwich City Scholastic Chess Champion. Top school teams (sum of team scores across related sections) will also ...

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Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports - VentureBeat

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 13:25

VentureBeat

Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports
VentureBeat
“According to research undertaken by Newzoo, esports audiences currently rival those of the NHL, and should reach NFL levels by 2017,” VB Insight marketing technology director Stewart Rogers told GamesBeat. “That isn't the whole story; the average ...

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Alumnus on Forbes 2016 '30 Under 30′ List for Health Care - Tennessee Today

Chess Research - Thu, 01/14/2016 - 10:35

Tennessee Today

Alumnus on Forbes 2016 '30 Under 30′ List for Health Care
Tennessee Today
As a child, Madhukar loved puzzles and spent many afternoons playing chess—activities he believed helped him eventually develop the problem-oriented mindset needed for research. Madhukar developed UT ties during his middle and high school years in ...

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