All stories published by Digital Stories on November 04, 2018

All Stories published by Digital Stories on November 04, 2018

How an experiment from 19060s in social psychology laid the foundations for the structure of…

What a tin can telephone can teach us about the digital revolution

Where we learn that secret messaging did not change from Roman times to WWII, until one man managed to change this

Where we learn how effective online advertising works, how a Nobel Laureate was involved in this and how it allowed Google…

Where we learn if computers can always take a decision, and what happens if they don’t.

Where we learn that algorithms and computational recipes exist already since Ancient Greece, but that the necessary…

What slot machines and one-armed bandits in Las Vegas can teach us about how to optimise finance, drug…

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Digital Stories

Digital and analog science stories written by Martin Vetterli in collaboration with Mirko Bischofberger, Henri Dubois-Ferrière and Paolo Prandoni