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- Read "Numerati" for a Penetrating Look at Data Mining
- The “Numerati†are an evolving class of quant-humping, algorithm experts who will be playing an enormous role in shaping our society, our economy and our lives. They are the types who founded Google and Yahoo but they are going beyond simple searching to manipulating and massaging the tremendous mass of...
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- A Truthful Christmas Carol
- In keeping with the spirit of this morning's Scroogesque post "Christmas is All About Selling," here's my very favorite Christmas carol from the immortal Harvard mathematician Tom Lehrer. Enjoy! by Geoffrey James
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
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- In Memoriam: Mathematician Walter Feit, pioneer in Finite group theory.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 August 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: In Memoriam: Mathematician Walter Feit, pioneer in Finite group theoryC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08302004 New Haven, Conn. - Mathematician Walter Feit, a Yale professor for 40 years, died at age 73 after a long illness on...
- Research articles 2004-08-31
- The Power of Social Networks; A mathematician explains how information flows through groups — and how businesses can channel it
- Byline: A GMJ Q&A with Jon Kleinberg, Ph.D., Cornell University mathematician and recipient of the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Synopsis: Cornell mathematician Jon Kleinberg's research centers on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other online media. In other words, Kleinberg can map the invisible world of...
- Research articles 2007-03-08
- Mathematician Hawking beats Beckham as British role model
- LONDON AFP — British mathematician Stephen Hawking is more of a role model to teenage boys than soccer star David Beckham and comes a close second to rugby hero Jonny Wilkinson. Hawking came second in a poll to find the men whom boys aged 16 to 18 look up...
- Research articles 2004-10-06
- UC professors, mathematician honored
- Four University of California, Berkeley professors and a mathematician from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, considered one of the highest honors accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. UC Berkeley's electees are A. Paul Alivisatos, chancellor's professor of chemistry and...
- Research articles 2004-04-28
- Finnish mathematician claims to have penned hardest sudoku
- HELSINKI AFP — A Finnish mathematician has claimed he had created the world's hardest sudoku puzzle, a brain-teaser which required three months' work and a billion combinations to produce. "AI Escargot is the most difficult sudoku-puzzle known so far," the puzzle's 37-year-old creator and applied mathmetician Arto Inkala told AFP...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- Rensselaer names renowned mathematician as Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 September 2003-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer names renowned mathematician as Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied MathematicsC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09252003 TROY, N.Y. -- Jong-Shi Pang has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as the Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor...
- Research articles 2003-09-25
- Acclaimed Columbia University mathematician spending sabbatical year at Bell Labs.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 September 2002-Lucent Technologies: Acclaimed Columbia University mathematician spending sabbatical year at Bell LabsC1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09042002 Murray Hill NJ -- Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), today announced that Daniel Bienstock, ...
- Research articles 2002-09-04
- -YALE: Yale mathematician Richard Beals appointed to Endowed Post
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 July 1998-YALE: Yale mathematician Richard Beals appointed to Endowed Post C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:060798 Richard Beals of Hamden, a Yale alumnus and longtime faculty member, has been appointed the James E. English Professor of Mathematics by vote of the Yale Corporation, Yale's...
- Research articles 1998-07-08
- Yale mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot elected to the American Philosophical Society.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 June 2004-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot elected to the American Philosophical SocietyC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06072004 New Haven, Conn. -- Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Yale University, was inducted to membership in the...
- Research articles 2004-06-08
- Rocket-science mathematician/Alumna to speak at Yale.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-18 February 2000-YALE UNIVERSITY: Rocket-science mathematician/Alumna to speak at Yale C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17022000 New Haven, Conn. -- Earning a doctorate in mathematics is an extraordinary achievement, especially if you are an African American woman. ...
- Research articles 2000-02-18
- YALE: Yale mathematician receives prestigious Wolf Prize, an international award from Israel.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 February 1999-YALE: Yale mathematician receives prestigious Wolf Prize, an international award from Israel C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:050299 New Haven, CT -- Laszlo Lovasz, the William K. Lanman Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale University, has been...
- Research articles 1999-02-10
- US mathematician to give Israel prize money to Palestinians
- JERUSALEM AFP — US mathematician David Mumford said on Monday he would donate his share of Israel's Wolf Prize to a Palestinian university and an Israeli human rights group. "Access to education determines how the next generation of Palestinians will grow up, specifically whether potential mathematicians will have the...
- Research articles 2008-05-25
- Renowned Mathematician To Conduct Advanced Research for Workfire.com, Inc
- KELOWNA, British Columbia--BUSINESS WIRE--July 19, 1999-- Workfire.com, Inc. (OTCBB: WKFR) has announced that it has engaged renowned mathematician Dr. Heinz Bauschke to apply his knowledge directly to the company's Genetic CachingTM technology. Dr. Bauschke holds his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Simon Fraser University, where he won the Governor...
- Research articles 1999-07-19
- Why The Sales Forecast Stinks
- Why The Sales Forecast StinksDiscipline can help the forecastWhile I generally agree with your statements, and have seen the abuses you mention often, I must mention a situation where the forecast was spot-on, regularly, without a mathematician:The Sales Manager (let's call him Pete) used a Sales Automation system (doesn't matter...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Why The Sales Forecast Stinks
- Let's face it: most sales forecasting is a complete joke. Here's the routine: The sales manager asks for the forecast. The reps make a guess at what will close, then subtract ten percent, just in case. The sales manager takes the forecast and raises it ten percent because he knows the reps...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- California Firm That Developed FICO Credit Scores Is Still Sailing.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- Sep. 26--Credit scoring was invented in the 1950s, when two Stanford University researchers -- engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Issac -- set up shop in a San Rafael garage and began testing the idea. Sep. 26--Credit scoring was invented in...
- Research articles 1997-09-26
- The Boston Globe David Warsh Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Apr. 2--PATENTING IDEAS: In the summer of 1998, mathematician Richard Michaud had a piece of luck. He was working with his son on a thorny question of optimal diversification; both had the same idea on the same afternoon. Apr. 2--PATENTING IDEAS: In the summer...
- Research articles 2000-04-03
- Relational databases are not suitable for management information systems: and that's official! (includes sidebar article on On-line Analytical Processing at UBS and Mercury Communications)(includes table of 12 rules for OLAP)
- Multi-dimensional databases should be regarded as a better solution for management information systems than relational databases, according to Ted Codd. Codd is the mathematician who in 1970 suggested the 12 rules now widely used as standards by vendors oMulti-dimensional databases should be regarded as a better solution for management information...
- Research articles 1994-09-01
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