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Not so science fiction after all, the internet could out-evolve humanity - The Conversation AU
The Conversation AU
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
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 ...
Galleries to Mount Joint Carolee Schneemann Exhibition - New York Times
New York Times
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
Greenwich Time
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 ...
Things to do in and around Greenwich - Greenwich Time
Greenwich Time
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 ...
Anita Sinclair: Creating Community Access to Art - Long Beach Post
Long Beach Post
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 ...
Students to Compete in Scholastic Chess Championship - Greenwich Sentinel
Greenwich Sentinel
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 ...
Why ESPN is finally getting serious about esports - VentureBeat
VentureBeat
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
Tennessee Today
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 ...
Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward
Forward
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...
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Meet the Orthodox Star of Oscar-Nominated 'Son of Saul' - Forward
Forward
Forward
The process developed by the Germans was, in fact, chillingly effective. Shlomo Venezia, an Italian Jew who was one of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, once described it in his own testimony to the Holocaust Research Project: “The door was closed. Once ...
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Understanding false memory - Illinois State University News
Illinois State University News
Illinois State University News
Professor of Psychology Dawn McBride has conducted years of research on why the memory works the way it does and the causes of false memory. She began researching the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which is used to study ... Without looking ...
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama - Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama will exhibit Art Series' first ...
New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Marcel Dzama - Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic
Following the highly acclaimed installations by FAILE, JR, and Dustin Yellin, New York City Ballet collaborates for the 2016 Art Series with Winnipeg native and Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Marcel Dzama. Dzama will exhibit Art Series' first ...
Faces across the chess board – New Year tournaments, top prizes and new challenge - AL.com
AL.com
AL.com
The Madison City Chess League's Winter Scholastic Chess Tournament was held on January 9, at Columbia Elementary, in Madison. Seventy students registered to play in both rated and non-rated sections. "Students ranged from kindergarten to high school ...
Cotter student designs brain tumor-modeling program for neurosurgeons - Winona Daily News
Winona Daily News
Winona Daily News
Lee spent months preparing for a two-week internship at a private research firm in Chicago, where he developed a high-tech computer program designed to assist neurosurgeons and save lives. Lee's program took him two weeks of 12-hour workdays to create ...
On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
On Dec. 12, 1941, less than a week after the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attempted to take Wake Island, strategically located in the Pacific, but were thwarted by U.S. forces. Twelve days later, they returned with force and Wake Island was ...
On Chess: Price of a chess set in time of war - 20 packs of cigarettes - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
There is a scene in The Great Escape, the classic 1963 film about American and British POWs in a German camp, in which James Garner and Donald Pleasence discuss the art of forgery over a game of chess. The scene is brief and although chess is not the ...
2015-2016 Lake County Leadership Team - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Art class teacher for four years at Volo Bog Youth Art Guild; research intern at bird division of the Field Museum for two years; host for school's Veterans Day breakfast; logistics head for school's cancer fundraiser challenge, Hunt ...
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Honorable mentions: Northwest Suburban Leadership Team, 2015-2016 - Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Daily Herald
Community service: Worked as a research assistant for the Hospitalist Project at the University of Chicago; helped perform laboratory research in cancer pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago; volunteered in Women and Infant Services at Alexian ...
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