Media Coverage

Text Analytics and Lydia: TextMap, TextMed, TextBlg, TextBiz

• Algoritmos para animar el verano en la ciudad El Mundo, Diario de Soria (Spanish) July 13, 2006. Includes a dramatic picture of me in front of a news heatmap.
• El congreso de Matematica discreta busca dinamizar la investigacion Heraldo de Soria (Spanish) July 12, 2006. Includes a dramatic picture of me in front of a sleeping audience.
• Idean buscador internet para conocer los 'ma's malos' del mundo La Vanguardia (Spanish), July 17, 2006. Original Link

Airplane Boarding

• Let Einstein help you board your plane New Scientist (top story!) July 29, 2006 issue 2562. Original link

  The journal version of our paper: Analysis of aeroplane boarding via spacetime geometry and random matrix theory appeared in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. and was honored as an IOP Select paper.

• All aboard, with a little help from Einstein by Hames Randerson, The Guardian July 27, 2006. Original link.
• Getting passengers in their seats is as easy as E=mc2, by Ian Johnston, The Scotsman, July 27, 2006. Original link.
• Plane Geometry: Scientists Help Speed Boarding of Aircraft Wall Street Journal (front page!) November 2, 2005. See here for a local copy of the WSJ article.

  The conference version of our paper: Eitan Bachmat, Daniel Berend, Luba Sapir, Steven Skiena "Airplane Boarding, Disk Scheduling and Space-Time Geometry" appeared in the Proceedings of Algorithmic Applications in Management: First International Conference, AAIM 2005, Xian, China, June 22-25, 2005. Volume 3521, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

• Warped geometry could cut airline boarding delays by Philip Ball, Nature, December 2005. See here for a copy of the Nature article.
• Israeli Researchers Fly By The Numbers by Allison Kaplan Sommer, The Jewish Press, December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the Jewish Press article.
• Travellers' scrum fills plane quickly by David Millward and Roger Highfield, Daily Telegraph, London. December 22, 2005. See here for a copy of the Daily Telegraph article.
• How you get on a plane is relative, really Independent Online, South Africa December 23, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Einstein's theory of boarding aeroplanes Daily Times, Pakistan, December 23, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Israeli researchers fly by the numbers Israel 21C, December 18, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Attention Everyone in Groups A, B and C, and Rows 42 Through 1 World Hum, CA, December 14, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Israeli Researcher: Airplane Boarding Inefficient Arutz Sheva, Israel. December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• It's just plane stupid The Sun, England. December 21, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Einstein's theory of boarding aeroplanes Ananova, United Kingdom. December 22, 2005. See here for a copy of the article.
• Airlines change how they herd us aboard USA Today. January 9, 2006. See here for a copy of the article.
• Now boarding row N blog by Brian Hayes.
• Getting fliers on jets faster USA Today. June 26, 2006. See here for a copy of the article.

Virus Designs for Vaccines

• Researchers Design Customized "Wimpy" Polioviruses -- A New Path to Vaccines?. Infection Control Today, June 30, 2008.
• Scientists design a new class of weakened polioviruses. Science Centric, June 29, 2008.
• Fake virus coult make safe new vaccines. Reuters, June 27, 2008.
• Biased Viruses Suggest New Vaccine Strategy for Polio and Other Diseases. Martin Enserink, Science Magazine, June 27, 2008.
• Viruses Rewritten. Science News, June 26, 2008.
• Customized `Wimpy' Polioviruses Designed: A New Path to Vaccines?. Science Daily, June 26, 2008.
• Mosquito Wars: Scientists Take a Swat. LiveScience, June 26, 2008.
• `Alien Code' Leads to Faster Vaccines. New Scienist, June 3, 2006

DNA Sequence Assembly

• Moving From Simulations to Real Data, Short-Read Assemblers Start Facing Off. InSequence, March 20, 2008.
• New Algorithms Indicate that `Microread' Genome Assembly May be Within Reach. BioInform, April 13, 2007.

Correcting Shift Errors in Standardized Exams

• Nobody's Perfect. Neither Is the Test. New York Times. April 2, 2006. See here for a copy of the article

Calculated Bets and Jai-Alai

• Interview on The Exchange Connecticut TV 12, September 3, 2001.
• Sports and gambling -- the American way? The Times Newspapers, December 9, 2001.
• Is winning on football wagers an impossible goal? The Home News Tribune, February 3, 2002.
• A Professor Bets on Jai Alai -- with Computer Models The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 8, 2002.
• Read This! The MAA Online book review column July 29, 2002.
• The American Statistician, November 2002, volume 56 number 4.
• Jai-alai USA review April 15, 2003.
• Review of Calculated Bets, Ian Kaplan, July 2003. volume 56 number 4.
• Association Mathematique du Quebec Magazine (review in French by Robert Bilinski) December 2004. Original Link
• Review of Calculated Bets, Casino Online, United Kingdom, with an author interview, November 2009

Reviews of The Algorithm Design Manual

• Computer Science Video Lectures Worth Watching Computer Science and Programming Haven, April 9, 2009.
• The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd ed by Steven S. Skiena Review by Steven Parkes Reviewed October, 2008
• Don't Panic -- Help is at Hand Review by Harold Thimbleby of The Algorithm Design Manual, 2nd ed. in Times Higher Education Supplement, November 27, 2008.

Other: Programming Contests, Mathematics, and Patents

• In the Spotlight: Steven S. Skiena Springer Author News, September 2008.
• Matematica Discreta y Algoritmica Spanish News Service Universia.es. Original link. July 11, 2006.
• Code Warriors: Young computer programmers battle for fame, money, and the love of algorithms the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 8, 2005.
• Mathematica Featured User April 28, 2003. Original Link
• SUNY Scientists Awarded Patent for Virtual Reality Software SUNY Press Release, July 24, 2002.