About the Author

James McCaffrey works for Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of California at Irvine, a B.A. in applied mathematics from California State University at Fullerton, an M.S. in information systems from Hawaii Pacific University, and a doctorate in cognitive psychology and computational statistics from the University of Southern California. James enjoys exploring all forms of activity that involve human interaction and combinatorial mathematics, such as the analysis of betting behavior associated with professional sports, machine learning algorithms, and data mining.