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Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born 1974) is a a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
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Background
Born in Boston, Shalizi lived there for the first two years of his life before moving to Bethesda, Maryland where he grew up. Boston is a town and small port c. ...
Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church, built in 1820 and rebiult in 1850, which in turn took its name from the Aramaic words Beth Hesda, meaning house of...
He attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he received a doctorate in physics in May 2001. From 1998 to 2002, he worked at the Santa Fe Institute, in the Evolving Cellular Automata Project and the Computation, Dynamics and Inference group. Afterwards, from 2002 to 2005, he worked at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Plaque on Bascom Hall, UW-Madison. ...
The Santa Fe Institute [SFI] is a non-profit research institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico founded by George Cowan, David Pines, Stirling Colgate, Murray Gell-Mann, Nick Metropolis, Herb Anderson, Peter Carruthers, and Richard Slansky in 1984 to study complex systems. ...
In August 2006, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[1].
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Achievements Shalizi is co-author of the CSSR algorithm, which exploits entropy properties to efficiently extract Markov Models from time-series data without a generative model.
Cosma was recently ranked by Nature as being one of the top 50 science bloggers, with his blog Three-Toed Sloth.
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References - ^ [Cosma]. "Cosma Shalizi's Homepage". Retrieved on 7 July 2006.
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