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As a PhD student, I often use [R] for writing assignments, quizzes, reports and even for my thesis. has a unique way to convert any piece of messy information into an elegant text. Perhaps, it is the most used typesetting program in academia....
We communicate with words. Each word has its own history, also each word triggers different concepts in everybody’s mind. But we are not fully aware of this. For an example you can watch this part of Douglas Hofstadter’s talk. In this...
1st Seminar; Speaker: Carleton Coffrin, a research scientist at NICTA in the Disaster Management Team. (PhD, Brown University, 2012) Date: December 6, 2012 Time: 3 p.m. EST (UTC -5) – Local Time Title: Disaster Management for Power System Restoration Abstract: Recent...
Note 1: This reading contains spoilers about the Travelling Salesman. If you do not read any comments about the movie, please keep your willing of reading this post after watching the movie Note 2: I wrote this post after I had...
Without doubt, cloud storage is one of the most popular topics in IT nowadays. Cloud storage is simply storing documents, photos, etc. into an online warehouse, which can be accessed via several outlets, such as using a web interface or just...
Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometers. (nano.gov) Developments in this area started after invention of scanning tunneling microscope in 1981, concept of manipulating matter at nanoscale were developed earlier. Most people cite Feynman’s...
Well, as a Matrix fan, I thought if we are really in ‘the Matrix’ then there could be some changes in Operations Research. I would like to start with the question ‘What is the Matrix?’ for those who don’t know the...
“No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” – Stigler’s law of eponymy. Stigler named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of “Stigler’s law”, consciously making “Stigler’s law” exemplify Stigler’s law. (Stigler’s law of eponymy – Wikipedia) Why this happens? Most...
At the beginning 1900’s mathematical tools to formulate decision problems were available, but lack of computational power prevented us from applying these concepts to large real life systems. Poptech recently shared a list of computers developed between 1938 – 1988. It...
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How can OR Help or Damage Network Security?
12 Apr, 2013
