Sunday, March 12, 2006

Connecting the Dots -- Literally

Networks have reached the big time: the The New York Times! See Patrick Radden Keefe, Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?, NYTimes Online (March 12, 2006).

Granted, the NYTimes did not mention Wigmore charts or directed acyclic inference networks; it focused instead on social nets, which are often neither directed nor acyclic. Nonetheless, surely the glare of mass publicity will soon shine on directed acyclic inference networks as well!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Tim, my post was tongue in cheek. P.S. I have heard that D. Schum was quoted by the Wall Street Journal. But I have not seen the article. Peter T