Robot traders are dominating stock markets using high speed computer algorithms. Human traders and government regulators canât keep up, and markets could be one programming glitch away from the next big crash. Stan Correy investigates.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2012-09-09/4242538
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss random and pseudorandom numbers. Randomness will be familiar to anybody who’s bought a lottery ticket or shuffled a pack of cards. But there’s also a phenomenon known as pseudo-randomness –numbers which look random but aren’t. So why are these numbers useful and how can they be generated? Melvyn is joined by Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford; Colva Roney-Dougal, Senior Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews; and Timothy Gowers, Royal Society Research Professor in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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The guys sit down with Danica McKellar for a stellar conversation about growing up Winnie Cooper, her passion for math and how to give children confidence through education. Danica is WAY smart. She has a theorem named after her for crapsake! This ep takes wonderful turns that you may not expect!
http://www.nerdist.com/2012/03/nerdist-podcast-danica-mckellar/
It’s one of the great unseen drivers of our world—silently altering and shaping our social lives, the way we communicate, our access to information, our economies, our culture, the very future itself. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you—the algorithm! OK, It’s not as dramatic as all that, but if we’d said ‘We’re doing a program on mathematical codes’ … Well, why would you bother to tune in!
Guests
John MacCormick, Professor of Computer Science at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania and author of ‘9 Algorithms That Changed The Future’.
Ted Striphas, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture.
Nick Meaney, CEO of Epagogix Ltd.
Michael Kearns, Professor and National Centre Chair, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Andreas Calianos, Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Dome Equities LLC.
Publications
Title: 9 Algorithms That Changed The Future
Author: John MacCormick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Further Information
John MacCormick’s webpage (http://users.dickinson.edu/~jmac/)
Ted Striphas’ Webpage (http://www.indiana.edu/~bookworm/)
Ted Striphas blog posts on algorithmic culture (http://www.thelateageofprint.org/category/algorithmic-culture/)
Michael Kearns’ Webpage (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/)
Epagogix (http://www.epagogix.com/)
TED Talk on ‘how algorithms shape our world’ (http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world.html)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-algorithm/3901466
This week Jamillah learns how maths translates into hair accessories and what a search engine looks like from the inside. Meanwhile, Chris Vallance finds out more about our relationships with robotic friends.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/outriders/2011/12/mathematical_art_search_and_ro.shtml
Today, Charles Babbage writes a letter to Alfred Lord Tennyson. The University of Houston’s College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
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Children who have a good sense of numbers also tend to have a talent for arithmetic, even before formal training. Christie Nicholson reports in Scientific American.
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Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?
Professor Marcus du Sautoy argues that mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. Ten fifteen minute podcasts that reveal the personalities behind the calculations from Newton to the present day. How do these masters of abstraction find a role in the real world?