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...debate over preregistration last spring inspired an examination of how to best predict class size and allocate teaching fellows. Now, an algorithm developed by a computer science class last fall may have the solution...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CS Class Predicts Course Figures | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

Shieber’s students canvassed over 10 years of data—historic enrollment, course type, department, CUE guide ratings, time slot, and other variables—to determine an algorithm, which Shieber called a “machine learning system?...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CS Class Predicts Course Figures | 2/6/2004 | See Source »

...site then uses an algorithm to calculate the likelihood—in the form of a percentage or a percentage range—that a student will be admitted to a certain school...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Aguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alums Predict College Acceptances Online | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...digital form these days--not just text, movies and music but poison gas, human faces, packs of razor blades--you name it. Once information is digitized, it can be tracked, monitored and analyzed. The potential is evident in Lipson's vision of how people will use Imagen's algorithm-laden software. "Any data that can be represented as an image is amenable to analysis by Imagen's technology," says Lipson. "It is one of the very few technologies that can transcend different domains, from natural scenes to human faces to trademarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identification: Digital, P.I. | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

With such a system in place, a more thoughtful assessment of a film’s merits could accompany any algorithm involving the number of vulgarities and eye-gougings in each movie. Harrowing situations like that of our junior Bill Murray fan could be avoided. And we could all sit back and enjoy Kill Bill: Volume Two, comforted by the knowledge that any additional groin kicks that Tarantino might have up his sleeve will only be observed by those mature enough to view pelvic violence...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Sussed Out | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

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