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...need to fulfill the specific requirement, and how many other courses are offered in that area. University Hall can also provide predictions to faculty members. Whether those faculty members choose to listen to them is another issue. Many computer science concentrators have told me they could probably write an algorithm based on CUE Guide scores and other factors like what the Core office uses to make accurate estimates. I am simply unconvinced that the proposed pseudo-preregistration will yield more accurate numbers than is possible today...
...Google would get it right. The company is among the few shining stars in an industry littered with flameouts. Before Google came along in 1998 with its breakthrough search engine, trying to search for stuff on the Web was an exercise in information overload. Google's innovation was an algorithm (afancy comp-sci term for a set of rules) that matched search terms with the most relevant sites that get most links from the highest quality Web pages. Think of it as searching by dint of popular demand...
...patterns rather than acoustic ones." One of his first breakthroughs was to teach computers a new way of picking out individual words in a stream of sound. Kanevsky's mathematical method made it possible for people to talk to ordinary computers without pausing...after...each...word. Derivatives of this algorithm, first published in 1991, are used in many of today's voice-recognition products...
...pretty logical, really. Incoming freshmen and transfer students are given email addresses based on a computer algorithm that allows a maximum of eight characters per address. If a students last name is unique, he gets up to eight of its letters for an address. When duplicates arise, the first letter of the first name, and sometimes the middle intial, is put in front. If even that doesnt work, numbers are added to the end. Heres where Harvard gets aesthetic on us: if the eighth letter of the students last name is a vowel, the last letter gets...
...think ShuttleGirl is an incredibly elegant solution," Delvecchio says of her ability to multitask. "One algorithm does everything...