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Sean Gourley
Sean Gourley is Chief Technology Officer of Quid. Gourley did research into the mathematics of war for his PhD thesis at Balliol College, Oxford. His findings appeared as the featured article in Nature (December 2009) and were the subject of a popular TED talk he presented in May, 2009. These findings as related to statistical analysis, probability, and algorithm development applied to complex systems and large datasets provided the impetus for important Quid core technology. Gourley is a Rhodes Scholar with a PhD in Physics (Complexity) from the University of Oxford. His undergraduate degree in Physics is from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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- algorithm
Procedure that produces the answer to a question or the solution to a problem in a finite number of steps. An algorithm that produces a yes or no answer is called a decision procedure; one that leads to a solution is a computation procedure. A mathematical formula and the instructions in a computer program are examples of algorithms. Euclid's Elements (c. 300 BC) contained an algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers. Manipulation of lists (searching for, inserting, and removing items) can be done efficiently by using algorithms.
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- Economist, The
Weekly magazine of news and opinion, founded in 1843 and published in London, generally regarded as one of the world's preeminent journals of its kind. It gives thorough and wide-ranging coverage of general news and particularly of international political developments that bear on the world's economy. In accord with the views promoted by its founders and conveyed by legendary Economist editor Walter Bagehot, the publication maintains the position that free markets typically provide the best method of running economies and governments. North America accounts for about half of its total readership.
- Economist, The on britannica.com
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