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Seminar
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese
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Computing by Symmetry |
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Prof. Bob Li |
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Department of Information Engineering and |
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CUHK |
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April 8th, 2011 (Friday) |
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2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
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Room LT3 |
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Abstract:
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The popular 2008 movie "21" was
based on the story of the MIT Blackjack Team, which won $m’s in Las
Vegas, Atlantic City, the Bahamas, St. Martin, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Europe,
... in the early 1990s. The Team was formed after my years at MIT (1974-76).
They called me up before their magnificent tour and tried to invite me to
join, before which time I had not heard of this Team. At an age before Internet, the Team managed to track
me down on the opposite side of the earth. Why me? I had a private theory for exponential speed-up in
the computation of blackjack probabilities. It applied some algebra of the
symmetric group to tree-search computing. I had fun using it at * This talk is from the series of A dialogue
between mathematics and engineering No prerequisite from
algebra, computing or gambling |
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Biography:
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http://www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/people/bobli.html |
************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************
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Host |
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Prof. Lam Kai Pui |
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(852) 2609 8330 |
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Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou |
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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering
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