Yahoo! Labs Competition Yields Better Ranking Model
The Learning to Rank Challenge showed Yahoo! that its approach to search is on target, but there’s still room for improvement.
By Marina Krakovsky
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Programming ‘boot Camp’ Offers Basic Training
John Stamey is a drill-sergeant to computer science students at Coastal Carolina University. Everyone in first-semester programming must write 370 programs. Student performance has improved dramatically.
The Long Slow Road to a $1 Million Millennium Prize
In 2006, the journal Science named the solution to the century-old Poincaré Conjecture as its "breakthrough of the year." Three years later, the Clay Mathematics Institute, which had pledged to award $1 million to the person who solves this or any of six others of its Millennium Prize Problems, has yet to name a winner. The delay sheds light on the onerous process of vetting solutions to mathematics' toughest problems.
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