Presentation Syed Talat Fakhri, Chief Mathematician at MindValley, at the Malaysia.rb January 2008 Meetup.

1. Impact of Higher
Mathematics on the World
Wide Web
Syed Talat Fakhri
(M. Tech Mathematics & Computing- Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi)
MindValley Labs
17 January 2008

2. “How to use Markov Chains to
become a billionairequot;

3. quot;How the work of Andrei Markov
100 years ago made Larry Page
and Sergei Brin super richquot;

4. Who the hell are
Mathematicians?
Bean counters??

5. What is Mathematics?

6. What is one of the biggest problem
of the Internet?
• Too much information
• To be precise, too much
noise and little information

7. How to get some order out of this chaos?
• Some workarounds
• Mashup.
• Data Mining
• Business intelligence
• SAP acquires Business Object
• Oracle acquires Hyperion
• Efficient Frontier does strategic
Bidding.

8. Support Vector Machines(SVM):
• Performs Classification by
constructing N-dimensional
hyperplane that optimally separates
the data into 2 categories.

9. Some general idea of SocialRank Algorithm
• N-dimensional Hyperplane
• Hidden Markov Models.
• Natural Language Processing.
• -+ some secret sauce.
www.socialrank.com

10. Powerset (NLP)
Intel(Evolutionary Algorithms)
Merril Lynch (Algorithmic trading)

11. Game Development
• Big opportunity for Indie Gamers.
(eg: PyGames)
•Casual Games
(eg: Magesco(for Wii)

12. Mathematics applied to games

13. Thank You