by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy July 28, 2016 Now that both major U.S. political parties have announced their nominees for president and vice president and the nominees have accepted these nominations, the Annals of Improbable Research U.S. Presidential Election Algorithm (Debowy and Schulman 2003) can be used to predict the results of the upcoming […]
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Bust detection algorithm
Around 2006, concerns were being raised regarding the (what was then) the newly emerging technology of 3-D full-body scanners. “These high-resolution scanned images reveal human body details and have raised privacy concerns. Airport and transport officials in several countries are refusing to run a test trial with the scanners until a more suitable way to […]
Professor Bender’s Kissing Goodbye Algorithm
“Given a rectangular room with n people in it, what is the most efficient way for each pair of people to kiss each other goodbye?“ Professor Bender, (pictured, of the Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, New York) along with his colleagues Ritwik Bose, Rezaul Chowdhury and Samuel McCauley, have made progress towards an […]
Knitting a recursive sweater
“Knitting is usually considered a female activity and females are usually not considered to be inclined to mathematics, or to science in general. Nevertheless mathematical skills are necessary for knitting, because they help to realize symmetries, inversions, scalings and proportions; good abstraction capabilities are indeed needed to figure the final result out and to map […]