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...preseason event and take the top ranking entering the season. “Even though the results have no real, official meaning, they are very important for the teams to gauge where we stand right before the season kicks off,” said captain Ilan Oren in an email. All seven of the teams in the competition are seeded in the top 11 in the College Squash Association’s preseason national rankings. Princeton was the top team entering the weekend with the No. 2 spot, and the Crimson and the Bulldogs followed...
There are plenty of goodtravel sites, so any new entry needs to have a better idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket...
...idea is that Google wants to organize your life, not just your information, says Oren Etzioni, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington who has consulted for the company on tech development. "In starting up services that haven't been at the core of their business, Google is experimenting to see if they can expand your everyday interaction with them," he says...
That is the question that vexes travelers seeking air tickets--buy, or wait in hope of a price drop? Thanks to computer scientist Oren Etzioni, an answer may be just a few mouse clicks away. Etzioni's site Farecast.com original name was, of course, Hamlet--provides the lowest fare on a route, a 90-day price history and, using a novel predictive algorithm, a tip to "buy now" or "wait," along with a figure indicating how confident Farecast is in its advice. (Flyers buy directly from the airlines.) Boston and Seattle are currently the only searchable points of origin...
...season bout, granting him the No. 1 seed in this weekend’s tournament. Harvard was billed to send four players to the annual tournament, which collects the 64 best national squash players to determine the national singles champion. Suchde was joined by teammates No. 7 seed Ilan Oren, a junior, and freshman Verdi DiSesa, who was seeded first in the lower Molloy Tournament. Broadbent was given the No. 5 national seed but was unable to go, due to a pulled hamstring in a loss against Trinity at last month’s CSA Team Championships?...