Digging out from piles of sticky notes

Digging out from piles of sticky notes Computer scientists devise ways to organize details of everyday life Anne Trafton, News Office (MIT) December 10, 2008 Everyone has them — little squares of colorful paper stuck on monitors, business cards strewn across desks, and to-do lists tucked away in pockets. These information scraps feature critical phone [...]

Deciphering honeybee dances and stock market swings

Deciphering honeybee dances and stock market swings Grad student’s model brings order to complex systems through math Anne Trafton, News Office December 10, 2008 What do dancing honeybees and stock markets have in common? At first glance, not much. But both are complicated dynamic systems that are extremely difficult to model — until now. An [...]