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Friday, August 26, 2005
The Game (by Ryan O'Donnell)
Posted by Ryan
Adam Klivans and Rocco Servedio and I used to play what we called The Game. To play The Game, you email the others a picture of a person in theoretical computer science. The others' job is to identify that person. I was reminded of The Game recently when looking at Homin Lee's look sharp, think sharp, act sharp page. No one gets any points for identifying the people on that page -- they're way too easy. (Also the pictures are links to home pages.)For my last blog entry, I thought we could all play The Game. Lance has generously offered $26 in prizes; the first commenter to identify any given person wins a buck (you need to post non-anonymously, obviously). One rule: no poster is allowed to identify him- or herself. Hint: the number 26 has its obvious significance. Caveat: some of this was done with Google Image Search; if I got the wrong person, I apologise.
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2. (Person on the left. )
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6. (In the green sweater.)
10:07 AM
# 9 comments
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Ryan,
Good posts this week. Fun game too.
#16 is Dr. Rene Peralta, currently at Yale University. The photo can be found here:
http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/peralta/nina.html
If I'm the first to guess correctly, any awarded prizes should be donated to charity.
---O
p.s. I'll see if I can guess any others shortly. I have a few ideas.
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#2 is Joan Boyar.
#3 is Artur Czumaj.
I only see up to #6.
Where is # 16?
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There seem to be some issues with the post or with my network connectivity. I see all 26 pictures on the LiveJournal syndication feed, but only 6 at weblog.fortnow.com . It also doesn't seem to be the top weblog entry when I visit weblog.fortnow.com directly.
In any case, here are some guesses:
#10 is Michael Jordan.
#14 looks maybe a little like Manoj
Prabahakaran, but I couldn't swear
to it.
#17 is Jean-Jacques Quisquater.
#19 is Adam Smith, from his web page.
#20 looks like Adam Kalai.
#23 looks like Rebecca Wright.
Now of course if I guessed wrong, or if I missed people I should have identified, I've just humiliated myself in front of everyone. Oh well.
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Nobody recognizes Dimitris (#1)
from his partying days?
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Number 9 is Giuseppe F. (Pino) Italiano from Universit� di Roma "Tor Vergata".
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15 is Tatsuaki Okamoto
18 is Eric Ruppert
21 is Alasdair Urquhart
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No fair... I only see 6 pictures.
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#11 is Daphne Koller?
- Shobha
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#8 is Ulrich Hertrampf, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Stephen.
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