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A Personalized Printing Press: Knewton & Gutenberg Technology

Posted in Knerds on December 5, 2013 by Charlie Harrington

Just a short high speed rail ride from the new Knewton London HQ is the Paris office of Gutenberg Technology, a leading French edtech startup. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Gutenberg Technology will be integrating the Knewton API into MyEbookFactory 5.0, a cross-content publishing platform for digital textbooks. With this partnership we’re helping publishers deliver personalized learning across any mobile device. See details in the official announcement. Founded in 2009, Gutenberg Technology recently announced… Read more

Introducing 15 New Knerds

Posted in Knerds on November 19, 2013 by Meghan Daniels

We have 15 new Knerds to introduce this month. Nine engineers, one adaptive instruction analyst, one finance and operations associate, one client manager, one content curator, one product manager, and one data scientist recently joined the Knewton team. Without further ado, here’s a quick intro to each of them. Full stack engineer Remi Carton is originally from Lyon, France, and studied at the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne. His favorite book is Twenty Thousand Leagues… Read more

London Calling: Knewton’s New International HQ

Posted in Knerds on October 15, 2013 by David Liu

I’m excited to announce that this month marks the opening of Knewton’s first international office. We’re setting up shop in London to better serve our European partners. A year ago, having a team of Knerds based in Europe would have been nice. We could have saved money on plane tickets and cut out the hassle of scheduling meetings across time zones. But today, as demand for Knewton’s adaptive learning technology continues to surge, an international… Read more

Welcome to Eight New Knerds

Posted in Knerds on October 14, 2013 by Meghan Daniels

Eight Knerds joined Knewton last month. Here’s a quick introduction to each of our new team members. Andrew Gwozdziewycz, Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, comes to Knewton from OKCupid Labs, where he was the CTO. Originally from Honesdale, PA, Andrew graduated from Temple University and currently lives in Brooklyn. In his free time, he enjoys photography; reading about, implementing, and messing around with programming languages; and running Hack and Tell (a show and… Read more

From L-R: Josh, Meagan, Andrew, Megan, Renee, Eric, Erin, and David

Knerds on the Board: How Do We Stack Crabs?

Posted in Knerds on October 14, 2013 by Jonathan Bethune

In this video series, we’ll feature different Knerds explaining problems, concepts, equations, and projects that pertain to their work here at Knewton. In this video, QA Engineer Jonathan Bethune discusses how Knewton leverages Amazon Web Services using a deployment tool developed in-house. This allows us to abstract away a lot of the complexity of building developer environments.  

Knerds on the Board: Markov Chains

Posted in Knerds on October 3, 2013 by grace@knewton.com

In this blog series, we’ll feature different Knerds explaining problems, concepts, equations, and projects that pertain to their work at Knewton. Here at Knewton, we live and breathe statistics (we even have a stats club!). In this video, data science intern, Sophie Chou explains Markov Chains, a mathematical system that refers to any “memoryless” process where the next state depends only on the current state, not the past state(s).  The system has many statistical real-world… Read more

Knerds on the Board: The Hiring Problem

Posted in Knerds on October 1, 2013 by grace@knewton.com

In this video series, we’ll feature different Knerds explaining problems, concepts, equations, and projects that pertain to their work here at Knewton. In this video, data science intern Irene Chen explains the solution to the famous “hiring problem,” also known as the “secretary problem,” the “marriage problem,” and the “best choice problem.” Imagine the following scenario: an administrator can hire the best candidate out of a series of applicants. The applicants are interviewed one-by-one, and… Read more

Welcome Rafi, Tanya, Chris, Zack, and Mia

Posted in Knerds on September 16, 2013 by Meghan Daniels

Five new Knerds joined the Knewton team last month. Software engineer Rafi Shamim is a New Jersey native and recent grad of Princeton University. His hobbies include soccer, ultimate frisbee, upgrading his computer, reading, coding puzzles, Civilization V, Crusader Kings II, and European-style board games. His favorite website is futilitycloset.com. You can find Rafi at http://rafiss.com/blog or on Twitter @rafiss. Tanya Roth joins Knewton as the Human Resources Manager. Originally from Mountain Lakes, NJ, she graduated from Bucknell and Columbia Teacher’s College. Her favorite… Read more

L-R: Rafi, Zack, Mia, Tanya, and Chris

NYU Knerd Talk: Power Education, Empower the World

Posted in Knerds on September 11, 2013 by grace@knewton.com

Over the next few months, we’ll be casting our genius net at some of the nation’s most famed institutions of higher learning. We’ll be looking for extraordinary engineers, content specialists, and data scientists to join our team. One of our first stops is NYU, which just happens to be the alma mater of four very special Knerds. We made a short video about how their experiences at NYU helped shape their careers here at Knewton…. Read more

Stanford Knerd Talk: Join Education’s “Walk on the Moon”

Posted in Knerds on September 11, 2013 by grace@knewton.com

In the coming months, we’ll be visiting some of the most venerated institutions of higher learning to find rockstar engineers, content specialists, and data scientists — and bring them back to Knewton. We’ll be at Stanford on Wednesday, September 25 talking Knerd shop. A few extraordinary Knerds will discuss the exciting challenges they face on a daily basis and the future of big data and education. Stop by and grab a Knerd shirt! In the… Read more

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