The shapes of stories: from Vonnegut to big data
The most famous rejected Masters thesis Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a brilliant American author best known for his novel Slaughterhouse Five. Before his literary fame, he entered in to the University of Chicago’s anthropology Master’s program but never finished. Vonnegut submitted two Master’s theses that were both, unfortunately, rejected. In one thesis, he presented the idea that stories…
The robot crawler number of a graph
Working with some bright undergraduates, we submitted a paper to the 11th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (WAW’15). It is a pity I cannot make it this year owing to other responsibilities, especially since I have never been to the Netherlands. I haven’t missed WAW for many years. In fact, I have…