Archives for computer science

24 Mar

In Conversation With Neil Heffernan, Professor Of Computer Science At Worcester Polytechnic Institute

For this week’s director’s series, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Neil Heffernan, the computer science professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.  Known for his innovative online learning tool and app, ASSISTments, Neil is an active researcher in educational data mining and analytics. He has six dozens papers in educational data mining and has authored…

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15 Dec

Party Loving Genius John von Neumann Changed How We See The World Through Game Theory

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Eugene Wigner, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist had once said, “One had the impression of a perfect instrument whose gears were machined to mesh accurately to a  thousandth of an inch.” He was not talking about any latest gadget, he was talking about the mind of John von Neumann. Computer science, philosophy, economics, political science…

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