The odds of picking a perfect bracket for the NCAA men's basketball March Madness championship tournament are a staggering less than one in 9.2 quintillion (that's 9,223,372,036,854,775,808), according to Jeff Bergen, mathematics ...
Mathematics
Mar 5, 2015
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The crowd stands and cheers. The exhausted, triumphant winning team is handed its trophy, which the captain lifts while the rest of the players raise their arms in victory.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2013
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An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 26, 2012
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Each March, the otherwise obscure field of "bracketology" becomes a premier discipline in the U.S. As pundits and fans debate the 68 teams that most deserve to participate in the NCAA Division I Men's basketball tournament, ...
Mathematics
Mar 12, 2012
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The World Cup offers fans of the globe's most popular sport the chance to thrill and agonize over the ups and downs of their nations' teams. For scientists, whether or not they are fans, it's another chance to collect data ...
Mathematics
Jun 11, 2010
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For the average college basketball fan looking for an edge in a March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois expert in statistics and data analysis has some advice on how to pick winners: After the Sweet Sixteen round ...
Mathematics
Mar 15, 2010
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For budding "bracketologists" busily weighing picks for their annual March Madness office pool, a University of Illinois professor has some advice on how to pick winners: In the later rounds of the tournament, ignore a team's ...
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2009
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Unlike the wildly popular Netflix chess-themed series "The Queen's Gambit," female players have struggled to climb to the top of the real-life chess world. Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are ...
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2020
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Data science researchers at the University of Illinois have some March Madness advice based on new research: Pick top-seeded teams as the Final Four in your March Madness bracket and work backward and forward from there. ...
Mathematics
Mar 4, 2020
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Efforts to make artificial intelligence fairer now extend to Wimbledon's courts.
Machine learning & AI
Jul 4, 2019
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