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FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 8 (Operation Match)
Date de diffusion: : 26 Août 2015Finding a date by computer is pretty common. Not so in 1965, when a Harvard math whiz came along with an idea to harness technology in a way that was so big, so fresh, that it could change the game entirely. Junior Jeff Tarr was fed up...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 7 (Crime By The Numbers)
Date de diffusion: : 08 Juillet 2015In 1994, the New York City Police Department began using CompStat, an organizational computer management tool, intended to map crime and identify problems. In 2008, because of concerns about the possible misuse of CompStat, a NYPD...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 6 (Shock the World)
Date de diffusion: : 13 Mai 20151998. Minnesota. A heated race is taking place for the empty Governor’s chair between District Attorney and Democratic nominee Hubert H. Humphrey III, Republican nomineeand current Mayor of St. Paul Norm Coleman and a third candidate,...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 5 (In Deep Water)
Date de diffusion: : 13 Mai 2015In 1857 off the Carolina coast, the SS Central America sank in a Category 2 hurricane and with it, thirty thousand pounds of gold valued today at roughly 548 million dollars. Over a century later and after many failed attempts to locate...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 4 (By the Numb3rs)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Avril 2015You know the name Kevin Durant. But unless you're a true basketball insider, you don't know the name of the man who helped Durant become an MVP: Justin Zormelo. A former student manager for the Georgetown basketball team, and a trained...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 3 (The Queen of Code)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Avril 2015Grace Hopper dedicated her life to bringing computers to the masses, when most supposed the technology was only useful for scientists and the military. Through her genius, she taught software English, so that everyone could communicate...
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 2 (The Cowboys and the Indian)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Avril 2015In the early 1960's, the Dallas Cowboys wanted to develop a computer system that would evaluate draft eligible college players. Enter A. Salam Qureishi, a brilliant Indian computer programmer and statistician.
FiveThirtyEight's Signals, Vol. 1 Episode 1 (The Man vs. the Machine)
Date de diffusion: : 27 Avril 2015On May 3, 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down to do battle against his nemesis, the IBM chess-playing machine "Deep Blue", though this time with an improved model, "Deeper Blue". Kasparov won the first game with ease. However, Game 2 proved to...