Also, there is J. Doyne Farmer [1], who was part of a group that used computers in their shoes, early 1980s, to "game" roulette tables in Los Vegas. Story is told in Thomas Bass's interesting book, "The Eudaemonic Pie". [2]
“The first wearable computer was conceived in 1955 by the author to predict roulette, culminating in a joint effort at M.I.T. with Claude Shannon in 1960-61. The final operating version was tested in Shannon’s basement home lab in June of 1961. […]
The Shannons and Thorps tested the computer in Las Vegas in the summer of 1961.”
It was just an idea before they jointly developed it.
I wrote this article and a quick calculator to divide shared costs. But assuming you just measure amount owed by time spent in a startup the calculator could be used to price contributions.
I have to put in documentation and a good explanation. But I just wanted to see if any managers thought the tool might be useful.
The problem it is trying to solve is to minimise the amount of work people think they are doing by allocating jobs to people who want them most.
All the jobs would be 100% of the work. Each employee puts in what % of the total each job would be for them. The system optimizes so that each employee has the same perceived effort and that perceived effort is minimized.
There are some obvious UX fixes that need to be made but I would be interested to hear what you think of the problem/solution idea?
We've just launched this tool to help people fairly divide stuff between them. It uses linear programming to calculate the maximin allocation. This is the allocation that gives the worst off person as much as possible.
>This was a fairly large change that we, understandably, only wanted to deploy to a small subset of users. This was facilitated by Bengineer Kamen's GAE/Bingo split-testing framework for App Engine.
Btw Shannon also invented wearable computers. He did it to cheat at roulette.