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

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.  

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

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

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

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