Bobby Fischer documentary

[gregm]

Bobby Fischer against the world. purchase on youtube

 

[roguejuror]

reconstruct a face based on the relationship between pixels and human-assisted identification of facial landmarks, producing a "hallucination"

on the boston bomber's manhunt

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365018017

check it greg

 

[reno cool]

I always wondered what the big hoopla with this guy was.
Looks like he learned what America is about pretty well.

 

[gregm]

reconstruct a face based on the relationship between pixels and human-assisted identification of facial landmarks, producing a "hallucination"

on the boston bomber's manhunt

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365018017

check it greg

amazing technology . thanks for posting rj. check this one out on cctv in britain.

In London, every bit of public ground is monitored all the time… every single street. Besides the government, all the different companies and landowners have their own CCTV cameras, so every spot is watched by everybody. In the most monitored city in the world there is one camera for every 14 people. But does this intense surveillance keep Londoners safe?

Photographer Henrietta Williams and cartographer George Gingell have mapped a ring of steel around London’s financial district. Forged from automated bollards, security gates and surveillance cameras anyone who enters is registered electronically and anything out of the ordinary triggers security protocols, even seemingly innocuous things, like video cameras.

The police can rely on the private security to jump in before them, so it’s like a faster response unit for less money to the government and to the city of London. And in fact in most cases, the streets in the financial district were given to the developers so that they could enact the policy of complete pedestrianisation of the streets and installation of the defense and surveillance against terrorist attack. The surveillance systems are not just simple cameras. Anyone who behaves unexpectedly triggers an alarm. Imperceptibly, humans can observe and evaluate behavior through smart cameras without anyone noticing. If the camera detects an unusual event, the subject is marked.
One of the world’s leading scientists behind the development of smart cameras is Professor James Orwell of Kingston University. The systems his team is developing can detect suspicious activity even before a crime occurs. The way is to present large volumes of data over many months, possibly years, and so that enables the system to develop a statistical model of what is normal and maybe what is abnormal, and so then there is automatic flagging of anything that is considered abnormal.

Professor Orwell has been monitoring the University’s car park with one of his new cameras. The system is learning normal patterns of behavior. Who leaves, who arrives, and how they act. It is able to measure for how long people are staying in the area, so it can flag if there is some suspicious behavior, for example if somebody is loitering in the area.

But the system doesn’t perfectly understand human behavior. An individual only needs to linger momentarily before the system flags them as potentially undesirable. In locations were thousands of people pass in front of the camera every day, it’s even more difficult for the system to determine what is normal behavior and what isn’t

 

[gregm]

I always wondered what the big hoopla with this guy was.
Looks like he learned what America is about pretty well.

I dont know if he was the greatest chess player ever considering his short career, there are so many different rating systems. He certainly was one of the most interesting. I really dont think he understood America and the modern world at all. In the 1970s when all the computer research was going on the US, he literally dropped out, he didnt play chess for 20 years after the World Championship in 1972 . I dont know about all the statements against the jews and the US, seems pretty crazy at times. He probably could have lived longer. He didnt get treated at all for a urinary tract blockage.

This is my biggest fear , playing chess against somebody with eyes like this.

Woman grand master making strides for chess in Colombia

Wednesday, 27 February 2013 10:05

Benjy Hansen-Bundy

Chess-wiz Nadya Karolina Ortiz is Colombia's first and only woman grandmaster.

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2013/02/colombias-first-and-only-woman.html

Nadya Ortiz learned to play chess from her father when she was six years old. She began studying electrical engineering at the Universidad de Ibagu, but then switched to a chess scholarship at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College to there computer science study.

Raised in a middle class family in the central Colombian city of Ibague in the Tolima department, Ortiz is one of Colombia's lesser known success stories.

At the tender age of four, Ortiz asked her father, himself a chess enthusiast and Russophile, to teach her how to play. Within a week, she was supposedly making moves at a ten-year-old level. By 16, she had won the under-20 Central American championship in Barbados. Ortiz went on to study computer science at UTB on a chess scholarship. She graduated summa cum laude and is currently pursuing a Master's degree at the same university.

"Chess is an addiction, and a lot of people don't know much about it," said Ortiz. "It's its own world. A professional chess player needs to study as much as someone trying to become a doctor."

In collaboration with her father, Ortiz created a chess program for schools in her hometown. In August of 2011 it began operating in 32 schools in her native city of Ibague. According to the grandmaster, there are many benefits to learning chess, including attentiveness, memory, and concentration. The sport, which is steadily building its Colombian fan base, also teaches time management, problem solving, and sportsmanship.

"One of the most satisfying results was that the children were encouraged and were not obliged, because in general, chess can be boring for many...in 2012 there was an increase in children associated with the chess league, which for me is a great step forward, because this shows that we instilled in them an appreciation," said Ortiz.

In 2010, she traveled deep into the heart of Russia to an oil boom town, Khanty-Mansiysk, where the World Chess Olympiad was held. She came home as Colombia's only woman grandmaster.