NY Startup Outbrain has acquired Visual Revenue, an editorial data startup. Visual Revenue allows news editors to make layout decisions for their websites based on a prediction of how well a story might do. The algorithms can track what headlines might catch more readers, but the company still says [Full Story…]
#Algorithms, the #SuperBowl and Social Networks
February 2, 2013 at 12:09 pm
By Sherry Mazzocchi Like most people, Sean J. Taylor would have never picked the Ravens to be in Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII. Taylor, a fifth year PhD candidate at NYU’s Stern School of Business, works in an abstract realm where mathematics meets social media. He attempts to describe—and [Full Story…]
#HHNYC: #Algorithms, #Art and Authorship
January 25, 2013 at 10:03 am
By Sherry Mazzocchi When designing the 9/11 Memorial, architect Michael Arad didn’t want the names of the dead arranged in obvious patterns. He wanted them placed randomly. That didn’t go over well with the next of kin, or first responders. Fireman and policemen wanted to be with their own [Full Story…]
Brooklyn’s Clio Uses Machine Learning to Challenge Pandora
May 28, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Clio is a new Brooklyn-based service for analyzing music that is challenging the methods of The Music Genome Product, conceived by Pandora. The service was founded by Greg Wilder, a pianist who taught himself to code, uses proprietary algorithms to pick out the hook, back beat or tenor of the lead [Full Story…]
High Frequency Trading Systems Have SEC Worried
June 28, 2010 at 7:11 am
Computerized stock trading by systems like Citigroup's Dagger, a super fast computer program that trades based on pre-programmed algorithms, now trigger 70% of trades in U.S. equities and have the Securities and Exchange Commission worried, an article in The Atlantic says. Most worrying [Full Story…]
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