In March 2012, Nobel Prize winner James Watson gave a seminar at Yale University entitled "Driven by Ideas." In his lecture, Watson discussed his personal vision for the future of science, specifically addressing how the scientific community should approach developing anticancer agents. He discussed the use of glycolytic inhibitors as anticancer agents due to the Warburg effect, as well as the ...

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence in distribution of a conditioned Galton-Watson tree to Kesten’s tree. This yields elementary proofs of Kesten’s result as well as other known results on local limits of conditioned Galton-Watson trees. We then apply this condition to get new results in the critical case (with a general offspring distribution) and in the sub-critic...

The primary purpose of this paper was to provide an in-depth analysis of the ability of modern analytical platforms (using IBM Watson Analytics as an example) to generate predictive models for stock prices forecasting in comparison with traditional analytical econometric platforms and models. Series of stock predictive models based on the suggestions of IBM Watson Analytics have demonstrated re...

My research is focused on developing a model of a virtual personal assistant, a technology that interacts with one individual and develops a personal relationship to provide more contextually relevant outputs to the user. We are exploring similar technologies that exhibit different aspects of the model of technology we are describing to evaluate the usefulness of each component individually, al...

A class of branching processes in varying environments is exhibited which become extinct almost surely even though the means Mn grow fast enough so that ∑ M−1 n is finite. In fact, such a process is constructed for every offspring distribution of infinite variance, and this establishes the converse of a previously known fact: that if a distribution has finite variance then ∑ M−1 n = ∞ is equiva...

Measuring the coherence of writing using topic-based analysis Abstract Among the many possible aspects to assess in writing, one of the most problematic is coherence. The problems with marking coherence arise because it is by nature subjective. However, the reasonable probability of several readers reaching a consensus concerning the coherence of a text suggests that it may be possible to assig...

Although there are many careers available in big data, K-12 students are rarely introduced to concepts relating to them. The Ed Watson educational package is a solution to that problem. Ed Watson introduces K-12 students to NLP and inverted indexing using a 30 minute lecture presentation and an interactive Jeopardy! game demo that allows them to compete against a computer player. The package wa...

Nonparametric kernel estimators are widely used in many research areas of statistics. An important nonparametric kernel estimator of a regression function is the Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression estimator which is often obtained by using a fixed bandwidth. However, the adaptive kernel estimators with varying bandwidths are specially used to estimate density of the long-tailed and multi-mod dis...

In 1981, J. Hawkes conjectured the exact form of the Hausdorff gauge function for the boundary of supercritical Galton-Watson trees under a certain assumption on the tail at infinity of the total mass of the branching measure. Hawkes’s conjecture has been proved by T. Watanabe in 2007 as well as other precise results on fractal properties of the boundary of Galton-Watson trees. The goal of this...