Needle in the World Wide Haystack - Anna Pratoussevitch
28th January 2017
We will talk about the world wide web, search engines and the mathematics behind Google's search algorithms.
For further reading on this topic, see:
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-pagerank (an AMS feature column "How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack" by David Austin)
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/Winter2009/RalucaRemus/ (a series of talks from a maths club at Cornell University)