The article could have mentioned that more people have worked on this. The whole thing started while Parrilo and Prajna were Prof. John Doyle's grad students at Caltech / CDS. Yet once again, MIT's shameless self-promotion fails to give credit where credit is due...
I always hate how these articles never have links to the actual papers or references. I suppose most people don't care, but then again, this is MIT news. Nerds will read it. HN's the only place where you get links to stuff. Thanks.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/ is the online alumni magazine whose, like every other alumni magazine on earth's, sole purpose is PR about the great things the school is doing.
while true, I don't think it hurts for journalists of any sort to quote or link to their sources. And considering the audience of MIT alumni, I'm sure they'd appreciate it as much as I would.
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http://www.mit.edu/~parrilo/sostools
The article could have mentioned that more people have worked on this. The whole thing started while Parrilo and Prajna were Prof. John Doyle's grad students at Caltech / CDS. Yet once again, MIT's shameless self-promotion fails to give credit where credit is due...
It isn't exactly scientific american.
Favorite paper: minimal tetrahedralization of a convex polyhedron is NP-hard. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0012/0012177v1.pdf
http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~deloera/RECENT_WORK/recent.html