Heuristics
Heuristics is a term that denotes the use of common-sense rules, gleaned from experience, to solve problems. In computer science, heuristics is the basis of heuristic programming, a branch ...
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GUT FEELINGS: THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE UNCONSCIOUSBy Gerd Gigerenzer Viking, 280 pages, $25.95
Readers who found Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink stronger on anecdote than analysis will welcome this i...
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Bonn (dpa) - Virus programmers seem to know no limits when it
comes to creative ways of make the internet unsafe. Rootkits,
originally programs designed to help computer adm...
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Of all of the surgically enhanced faces showcased at the recent AACS meeting in Phoenix, perhaps the most striking were not human.
Dr. Maria Siemionow's white Lewis rats — looking like fu...
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Editor's noteWith this issue, we introduce a new column we're calling First Person Surgical. In it, in the surgeon's own voice, we'll learn the heuristic techniques and lessons-learned that only ha...
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Traditionally, pharmaceutical manufacturing has been accomplished using batch processing with quality control testing conducted on samples of the finished product. This conventional approach has be...
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Heuristics
Before Gladwell Blinked, This Guy Followed Gut
