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IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Mark Anderson |
Data Mining Scrabble Using an open-source artificial-intelligence crossword game program called Quackle, a visiting assistant professor of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University ran nearly 10 million simulated games to discover which Scrabble letter tiles confer the most value to a player.   |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2011
David Gardner |
Moneyballing the Financial World Part of what makes baseball so interesting and compelling to lovers of numbers is that it is scored. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Sam Ouliaris |
What Is Econometrics? Econometrics uses economic theory, mathematics, and statistical inference to quantify economic phenomena. In other words, it turns theoretical economic models into useful tools for economic policymaking. |
Sports Central
April 26, 2011
Brad Oremland |
Sabermetricians: Help! Baseball, over the last 10 or 20 years, has seen a revolution of advanced statistics. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Sargur N. Srihari |
Beyond C.S.I.: The Rise of Computational Forensics Pattern recognition and other computational methods can reduce the bias inherent in traditional criminal forensics |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2010
Robert W. Lucky |
Black Swans What if Gaussian engineering is clear, simple, and wrong? |
National Defense
December 2010
Cynthia D. Miller |
JETS Promotes Engineering, Math To U.S. High School Students Though science, technology, engineering and math education is receiving a lot of press today, there have been organizations dedicated to the advancement of the fields for many decades. |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2010
Manisha Lalloo |
DNA origami with a twist Researchers in the US have designed and synthesised a nanoscale Mobius strip out of DNA origami. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010 |
Pretty Math Problem Computer scientists use sparse matrix values to generate beautiful images of a computational fluid dynamics problem. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2010
Mark Anderson |
Perelman and Majorana: Two Tales of Genius A new biography of geometry genius Grigory Perelman is enjoyable, but not as successful as one of unheralded physicist Ettore Majorana |
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