Sometimes you’re the scooper, and sometimes you get scooped: How to turn both into something good

Infectious Agents and Autophagy: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose

Speed Reading: You Can't Always Get What You Want, but Can You Sometimes Get What You Need?

Sometimes You Need a Little Intelligence, Sometimes You Need a Lot

Over the last fifteen years, we have built over a dozen different applications in many domains where the user can define behaviors by demonstration. In some of these, the system uses sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms so that complex behavior can be inferred from a few examples. In other systems, the user must provide the full specification, and the examples are primarily use...

Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn – Success Factors in Reward-Based Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has enabled various entrepreneurs, artists and other individuals and organisations to bring projects to life. Despite all success stories, 63% of all projects initiated on the biggest crowdfunding platform kickstarter.com and 46% of all projects initiated on the biggest German crowdfunding platform startnext.com, do not raise enough money to be realised. This study investigates whi...

Citation histories of papers: sometimes the rich get richer, sometimes they don't

We describe a simple model of how a publication’s citations change over time, based on pure-birth stochastic processes with a linear cumulative advantage effect. The model is applied to citation data from the Physical Review corpus provided by APS. Our model reveals that papers fall into three different clusters: papers that have rapid initial citations and ultimately high impact (fast-hi), fas...