Programming regret for Google: Scientists give computers 'hindsight' to anticipate the future
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Human beings are well aware that hindsight is 20/20 -- and the product of this awareness is often what we call "regret." Could this hindsight be programmed into a computer to more accurately predict the future? Tel Aviv University computer researchers think so -- and the Internet giant Google is anxious to know the answer, too.
