A hearty congrats to @Jeopardy legend @AmodioMatt. His unbelievable 38-day streak ended last night with a total winnings of $1,518,601!
Matt, you had us at "what's" and made us proud. Now hit the lab & books...you have a dissertation to complete!
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- Yale’s Daniel Spielman has won the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for “multiple discoveries in theoretical computer science and mathematics.” The prestigious prize comes with a $3 million award. Congrats! news.yale.edu/2022/09/22/yal… #YaleSEAS
- With a grant from the @Algorand Foundation, Yale researchers will lead a cross-disciplinary center to advance blockchain systems, while exploring their connections to economics and law: seas.yale.edu/news-events/ne… @chbpap #YaleSEAS
- Just to illustrate @AmodioMatt's @Jeopardy dominance: According to @voxdotcom the average J! player's win is ~$20K. Matt's average is ~$35K with last night's huge win of $61,200! Also #3 in consecutive games won. 🧠💪📈
- He just keeps Mo'ing down the competition (see what we did there?)! Just another $36,000+ day for 26 Day @Jeopardy champ @AmodioMatt Tune in tonight for Mo' Amodio as he nears $1 million dollars in winnings.
GIF - The #AmodioShow continues tonight! @AmodioMatt is looking to win Game #37. Almost impressive as his ability to run the @Jeopardy board is his ability to tell (at least) 37 different anecdotes after the commercial break! #JeopardyClue: This Jeopardy! champion has now won his 36th game
- For her work on developing a more robust quantum computing system, Shruti Puri, assistant professor of applied physics, has won an NSF CAREER Award. Congrats! seas.yale.edu/news-events/ne… #YaleSEAS
- Nicholas Christakis, the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Internal Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, says that tracking the pandemic means finding the ‘canaries in the coalmine’
- "Happiness, stress, happiness, stress, happiness, stress..." We have the same feeling watching @Yale Computer Science Ph.D. student @AmodioMatt dominate the last 5 days on @Jeopardy His total now stands at $147,800. Tune in tonight!That’s 5 wins in a row for Matt Amodio! Will he keep going?
00:00 - New CS faculty member Fan Zhang is passionate about #blockchains and making the infrastructure more secure, robust and scalable. He also looks to create impactful collaborations with other Yale experts in economics, finance & law. Learn more: seas.yale.edu/faculty-resear… @0xFanZhang
- Today's @AmodioMatt update: The @Yale CS Ph.D. student dominated on @Jeopardy again to make it a 14-day streak and is now the 4th highest winner in regular season play! In case you missed it, our Q&A with the Humble J! Beast: seas.yale.edu/news-events/ne…
- Julie Zimmerman, globally recognized for her work in green engineering, has been named the university’s inaugural vice provost for planetary solutions. Congrats!
- Yale Environmental Engineering celebrated its 25 year anniversary at the AEESP Conference where inaugural EnvE Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented to @SWalkerDrexel, @HoekNanoMeTeR and #YaleEngineering assistant dean Sarah Miller. Congrats to all!
