Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927, Walla Walla, Washington – 4 August 1993, Seattle) was an American mathematician specialising in number theory. After Army service, he studied at Stanford University and obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1950 under the supervision of Emil Artin. He was a Fellow at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, then assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University from 1952 to 1955, when he joined MIT. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1958; he became a full professor in 1964 and retired in 1992. His research was mainly in analytic number theory, on consequences of the generalized Riemann hypothesis. He was also interested in game theory and gaming: he wrote a book on mathematical analysis of poker strategies, especially bluffing. (Wikipedia).
Paul Davies - Big Pictures of God
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Scriabin's Prometheus: Poem of Fire
In February 2010, Anna Gawboy, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Music and scholar of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, attempted to realize the composer's final work: a symphony of sound and light called "Prometheus: Poem of Fire". To accomplish this, Anna worked closely with
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The Pot-Stirrer: Teaching Evolution in the Southeast U.S.
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Smallpox Inoculation and Onesimus
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Nexus Trimester - Randall Dougherty (Center for Communications Research)
Entropy inequalities and linear rank inequalities Randall Dougherty (Center for Communications Research) February 16, 2016 Abstract: Entropy inequalities (Shannon and non-Shannon) have been used to obtain bounds on the solutions to a number of problems. When the problems are restricted t
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How To Track A Dust Storm (Meteorology Documentary) | Dust Storm | Spark
Deadly dust storms rain over an arid land causing problems for the people living there and the infrastructure they've built. So how do they stay prepared for the ever-looming threat? And how do they predict just when and where the storm will strike next? Subscribe to Spark for more amazin
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F. Polizzi - Classification of surfaces via Mori theory (Part 1)
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Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers: Ken Moody [2008]
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Structured Neural Summarization | AISC Lunch & Learn
For more details including paper and slides, visit https://aisc.a-i.science/events/2019-04-16/ Abstract Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising re
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Stanford Seminar: Modern Touchscreen Keyboards as Intelligent User Interfaces - A Research Review
Shumin Zhai Google Essential to mobile communication, the touchscreen keyboard is the most ubiquitous intelligent user interface on modern mobile phones. Developing smarter, more efficient, easy to learn, and fun to use keyboards has presented many fascinating IUI research and design ques
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