I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities ฮฑ , ฮฒ, ฮณ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".
Jennifer Tour ChayesIt is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.
Jennifer Tour ChayesCombinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.
Jennifer Tour Chayes