“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities α , β, γ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”
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Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes is an accomplished mathematician currently serving as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington. Her research interests lie in combinatorial mathematics, graph theory, and computational complexity theory. Chayes has made significant contributions to the field of theoretical computer science and is highly regarded in the academic community. more