Category Archives: computer science

Mendelbrot – my hero – dies at the age of 85

He should have won more recognition for his contribution to complexity, fluid dynamics, the power law and it’s application in finance and last but not least computer graphics. All of these came about the phenomenon that were being followed by a … Continue reading

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Better way to search DNA databases

Chinese scientist has devised a new empirical rule to index DNA sequences. NGram indexing has been known to computer science. Chinese characters are indexed using NGrams. However, Wang Liang, a computer scientist at SOSO.com, one of the search engines in China, found that … Continue reading

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