MAIT's Rates 2002

This page outlines the performance of MAIT so far as well as outlining the major publicity that MAIT has been the subject of.

Performance

The representative weeks were rounds of football played immediately before or after reprentative games (there were three "State of Origin" games and one international test during the 2002 NRL season). Teams typically perform more erratically during this period because their stars were either absent (week before) or have to play two games in one week.

So how does this stack up? According to a Jeff Wells article in the Daily Telegraph (Dec 19, 2002) MAIT was unbeaten by any newspaper expert in Sydney. It was also unbeaten by any of the expert panel on the NRL "Footy Show". The performance was quite good, but we'll have to see how it all goes next year.

Publicity

• The Townsville Bulletin article. This was the first real public appearance for MAIT, back in March 25, 2002.
• I was a feature story on ABC's Catalyst program on August 29, 2002.
• MAIT was published at an Artificial Intelligence conference in December 2002 which I guess marked it's acceptance into the scientific community. The basic article which led to publication can be found here.
• The Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald also published a number of articles about MAIT. Read one here.
• The first international media attention MAIT received was courtesy of the legendary science magazine "New Scientist". You can read the article here, or in the December 14 2002 print edition (MAIT was also the "Editor's Choice" article in the email edition).
• The New Scientist article led to a lot of international exposure and I did a number of radio interviews with the BBC, ABC, South Africa FM and Sky News in London. There was also a series of articles in the English press, such as The Times and The Guardian.
• There was also a substantial amount of coverage in non-English press such as in Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Denmark, and the Republic of Panama.