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...Rigby’s previous roles have included the frightfully earnest wannabe actor Alan Dangle in the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guv’nors and the equally hapless thespian Garry Lejeune in Michael Frayn’s Noises...
...More are now joining the London Diamond Bourse, too, which now has more than 200 members, says Alan Cohen, its president....
...In 1997, the world was stunned when IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov....
...Susan Bickley and Alan Oke create a compelling duo of down-and-outs, Carmen and Rookie, and there is good support from Ben Edquist, Claire Wild, Louise Winter and Lauren Zolezzi....
...And it's not surprising that these great minds, pioneers of computer science, like Alan Turing or [INAUDIBLE] they all viewed chess as the ultimate test for machines' intelligence....
...Another is Garry Kasparov. When I catch up with the Russian grandmaster to seek his view on the self-taught chess prodigy, he seems to recognise a kindred spirit....
...In his recent book, Deep Thinking, he quotes the late computer scientist Alan Perlis: “Optimisation hinders evolution.”...
...So conductor Garry Walker and the Orchestra of Opera North did well to preserve the music’s shades of grey. As did the unanimously outstanding cast....
...The founding fathers of the modern computer age — Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon — all understood the central importance of information theory, and today we have come to realise that almost...
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank I expect 3 per cent wage inflation on average — up from around 2 per cent year-on-year during 2017....
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank Resurgence is probably putting it a bit strongly; less bad would be my preference....
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank 2018 should be a better year for the consumer as inflation slows (from 3 per cent year-on-year now, down to 2 per cent year-on-year or slightly...
...Alan Clarke, head of European fixed income strategy, Scotiabank I expect the BoE to raise Bank rate at the May 2018 meeting [of the MPC] on the back of concrete signs that wage inflation is accelerating...
...The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst, Picador A new novel from the author of the Man Booker-winning The Line of Beauty....
...Alan Clarke, Head of European Fixed Income Strategy, Scotiabank We expect UK GDP growth of around 1.5 per cent year-on-year again next year....
...Garry Young, director of macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, National Institute of Economic and Social Research More optimistic than 12 months ago....
...For instance, IBM’s Deep Blue computer played and beat the Grand Master Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997....
...Broadcaster Alan Yentob, entertainer Cilla Black and actor Christopher Eccleston are among the latest to file claims for compensation against the company, which publishes the Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror...
...But it has, nonetheless, achieved some impressive milestones, such as the IBM computers that beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997 and won the US quiz show Jeopardy! in 2011....
...Alan Fine, president of Marvel Entertainment, said the agreement was “unparalleled in scope and size”....
...But computers did not become self-aware in 1997 – the closest they managed was when Deep Blue, a B-list supercomputer, beat Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion....
...“Equities seem to have the most staying power among asset classes,” says Alan Ruskin, strategist at Deutsche Bank. “As an asset class, equities are under owned relative to bonds....
...Alan Ryder has faced many challenges in his career but he never thought he would have to ship sand to the desert....
...After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan Blinder, Penguin, RRP$29.95 The best account I have read of the US financial crisis....
...They had Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Bill Cosby, Kelly Monteith, Garry Shandling and Jerry Seinfeld. We had Hancock and Eric Sykes....
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