Many of us got into a particular field of study in science and technology more or less by accident. First of all if you are in high school, you are either immature and hence does not know how to seek advice or lack proper mentor to consult for advice. I remember when I was in high school ...
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) . A recent report from the US National Academy of Sciences addresses the above title. Evaluating Research Efficiency in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency . Committe ...
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) NOTES ADDED 4/22/08: The day turned out to be perfect - exactly as I described below. Some photos taken are added below: The Patriot’s Day celebration in Massachusetts The opening fi ...
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I don’t know under the current circumstance whether or not the NPR website is available in China. But this entire week, the current affairs program “ On Point ” with host Tom Ashbrook on NPR is ...
Back in the early fifties, RAND Corporation in California was a hotbed for military and other basic research. One researcher at RAND by the name of Rufus Isaacs was studying the problem of pursuit and evasion. He single handedly invented the theory of Differential Games which ...
What is Mathematical Game Theory ?( #4) Many person game theory There are three different models of GAMES. First we have what is known as Games in Extensive Form . It is simply a details description of the rules of a game. For example, in the simple game of Tic-Tac-Toe you ...
I mentioned this before in my Blog article on computational social science http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=12739 that oneoftheadvantagesofbeingretiredisthefreedomfromanykindof ...
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) . So far our discussions have been mostly on two person nonzero sum game theory (TPNZSG). http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=20337 http://www.sciencenet.cn/b ...
(For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) . Key US Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 The National Science Foundation of the US in their report NSB -08-2 (issued by the National Science Board) highlighted many key science and ...