How Screendance Was Invented While We Were Busy Claiming It Wasn’t

It Happened While You Were Sleeping

P redicting shortand long-term risk for adverse outcomes after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS; STsegment elevation myocardial infarction, non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, and unstable angina) has been the focus of numerous modeling efforts over many years. Nevertheless, risk models can reflect only the variables that were systematically available in the population databases used...

How the Hough Transform Was Invented Drop cap

T he Hough transform, used to detect geometric features like straight lines in digital images, is likely one of the most widely used procedures in computer vision [1]–[3]. Although nobody tabulates the frequency with which any particular algorithm or technique is used in computer vision, we can get some idea of its popularity by noting that Google Scholar returns over 22,000 citations in respon...

Colour : How We See It and How We Use It

It Was Easy, when Apples and Blackberries Were only Fruits

Ambiguities in company names are omnipresent. This is not accidental, companies deliberately chose ambiguous brand names, as part of their marketing and branding strategy. This procedure leads to new challenges, when it comes to finding information about the company on the Web. This paper is concerned with the task of classifying Twitter messages, whether they are related to a given company: fo...

How many were there when it mattered

Size matters, particularly in demonstrations. A demonstration is in support of a movement or a cause. The movement has a number of sympathisers. The perceived number of sympathisers is important. If it is seen to be large, then it becomes easier to recruit others to the cause, and to persuade inactive sympathisers to join the demonstrations. Also, if the movement numbers are large then it is mo...