The local media are opining that there is an extra letter in BCS
(bowl championship series) and the risks digest had an article on
computer ranking schemes that i thought might be considered as
relevant for calculations that go on around the college hockey
community.
I've included the header and footer for completeness.
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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Tuesday 9 December 2003 Volume 23 : Issue 06
FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:10:04 +0000
From: D G Rossiter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Big money on the line, but no source code...
Not quite as important as electronic voting programs, but still with
big consequences.
"In the College Bowl Race, the Crucial Players Are the Programmers".
Apparently, the Bowl Championship Series rankings, which determine which
lucrative post-season games a college can play, are partly determined by
computer rankings. The programmers refuse to give their algorithms, let
alone their source code. One complains: ""Now you want to look under the
hood of my car" when asked about this; another says "The more you specify,
the more you annoy the readers."
[*The New York Times*, 04 Dec 2003]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/04/technology/circuits/04foot.html
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