The government will introduce new rules on running Japanese language schools to eliminate poorly managed ones and keep the educational quality at an adequate level, sources said Wednesday. The Justice Ministry will revise the relevant ordinance soon, more clearly stating disqualifying conditions and making its screening more stringent, the sources said. There were 549 approved Japanese language schools in fiscal 2015, which ended in March. Due to Japan's declining population, the government aims to promote the establishment of Japanese language schools to attract more highly skilled foreign workers, but inappropriate operations at some schools have surfaced recently. A man running a Japanese language school in Fukuoka Prefecture was convicted in May of finding part-time jobs for students who worked more hours than allowed by law so they could earn money for school fees.

This paper characterizes hierarchical clustering methods that abide by two previously introduced axioms -- thus, denominated admissible methods -- and proposes tractable algorithms for their implementation. We leverage the fact that, for asymmetric networks, every admissible method must be contained between reciprocal and nonreciprocal clustering, and describe three families of intermediate methods. Grafting methods exchange branches between dendrograms generated by different admissible methods. The convex combination family combines admissible methods through a convex operation in the space of dendrograms, and thirdly, the semi-reciprocal family clusters nodes that are related by strong cyclic influences in the network. Algorithms for the computation of hierarchical clusters generated by reciprocal and nonreciprocal clustering as well as the grafting, convex combination, and semi-reciprocal families are derived using matrix operations in a dioid algebra. Finally, the introduced clustering methods and algorithms are exemplified through their application to a network describing the interrelation between sectors of the United States (U.S.) economy.

Opining about the future of AI at the recent Brilliant Minds event at Symposium Stockholm, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt rejected warnings from Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking about the dangers of AI, saying, "In the case of Stephen Hawking, although a brilliant man, he's not a computer scientist. Elon is also a brilliant man, though he too is a physicist, not a computer scientist." This absurd dismissal of Musk and Hawking was in response to an absurd question about "the possibility of an artificial superintelligence trying to destroy mankind in the near future." Schmidt went on to say, "It's a movie. The state of the earth currently does not support any of these scenarios."

Following two confirmed Tesla Autopilot-related crashes in the U.S., including a fatality, German lawmakers are planning legislation that would require carmakers to include a black box for cars. More commonly associated with aircraft, the proposed black box would record when an autonomous system was engaged, when the car asked the driver to retake driving duties and when a human driver took control or not, according to Reuters. The intent of this legislation would help both carmakers, regulators and law enforcement officials determine who is responsible in the event of an autonomous car crash. SEE ALSO: Tesla is the only carmaker beta testing'autopilot' tech, and that's a problem Both Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have said they will accept responsibility for the actions of its cars when in autonomous driving mode. I suspect, though, simply knowing when the system was engaged or not won't be the only factor used to determine fault or responsibility.

The local community college, facing year after year of tight budgets, is often in the business of turning students away, not welcoming them in. They have few marketing and recruiting efforts. There are far too few evening classes to meet the meets of working adults. Moreover, community colleges frequently come up short in offering the kind of program that many of these students are seeking--not Shakespeare, but hands-on training to be a nurse's aid or electrician. The whole system--high schools, public colleges, private industry--now fails to offer enough students, especially low-income students, a path to training for such careers. So the for-profit colleges have stepped into the breach.

It sounds rather like a children's toy - modular'chiplets' that can be put together to form a robot. However, Darpa's latest project has one difference - its machine could kill. Darpa hopes to shrink traditional military machines into single'chiplets' to build a library of components to aid everything from smart drone building to instant language translation. Shown, an artist's impression of the components that could be shrunk onto a single chip. The system will create a library of custom and commercial'chiplets'--small-scale chips that individually embody a particular function, such as data storage, computation, signal processing, and managing the form and flow of data.

When a new capability is conceived or developed, the intelligence community does not assign anyone responsibility for anticipating how a new AI algorithm may go awry. A computer algorithm issues orders to buy a stock and floods the market with hundreds or thousands of apparently separate orders to buy the same stock. Other algorithms take note of this sudden demand and start raising their buy and sell offers, confident that the market is demanding a higher price. The first algorithm registers this response and sells its shares of stock for the newly higher price, making a tidy profit.

When a new capability is conceived or developed, the intelligence community does not assign anyone responsibility for anticipating how a new AI algorithm may go awry. A computer algorithm issues orders to buy a stock and floods the market with hundreds or thousands of apparently separate orders to buy the same stock. Other algorithms take note of this sudden demand and start raising their buy and sell offers, confident that the market is demanding a higher price. The first algorithm registers this response and sells its shares of stock for the newly higher price, making a tidy profit.

Some of society's brightest minds have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, yet leaders of the U.S. intelligence community--with its vast budgets and profound capabilities--have yet to decide who within these organizations is responsible for the ethics of their AI creations. When a new capability is conceived or developed, the intelligence community does not assign anyone responsibility for anticipating how a new AI algorithm may go awry. If scenario-based exercises were conducted, the intelligence community provides no guidelines for deciding when a risk is too great and a system should not be built and assigns no authority to make such decisions. Intelligence agencies use advanced algorithms to interpret the meaning of intercepted communications, identify persons of interest and anticipate major events within troves of data too large for humans to analyze. If artificial intelligence is the ability of computers to create intelligence that humans alone could not have achieved, then the U.S. intelligence community invests in machines with such capabilities.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display