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Computer scientists develop technique to improve helpfulness of user-generated online reviews

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Dec 18, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Irish computer scientists have developed a system to improve the helpfulness of online customer reviews. In recognition of the quality of their work, the group received a distinguished paper award at the ...

IU informaticists show new levels of refinement in predicting human mobility, epidemic spread

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Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer ...

Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis, researcher says

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Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Society will be unable to take full advantage of real-time data analysis technologies that might improve health, reduce traffic congestion and give scientists new insights into human behavior until it resolves questions about ...

Pandemic toolkit offers flu with a view

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Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As communities brace for rising wintertime influenza cases, scientists are developing a mathematical and visual analytic toolkit to help health officials quickly analyze pandemics and craft ...

Air Force grant to tighten online encryption

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Dec 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientist Rafael Pass is seeking new approaches to cryptographic security with a $600,000, five-year grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Glasgow's joking computer

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Dec 11, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Glasgow Science Centre in Scotland is exhibiting a computer that makes up jokes using its database of simple language rules and a large vocabulary.

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

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Dec 10, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have developed and successfully tested new computer software and computational techniques to analyze patterns of improvised explosive device (IED) attacks ...

Eureqa, the robot scientist (w/ Video)

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Dec 07, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (15) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new program, Eureqa, takes raw data and formulates scientific laws to suit, and it is available by free download to all scientists.

Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis Reveals True Connections

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Dec 07, 2009 | 4 / 5 (9) | 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Facebook figures out that you know Holly, although you haven't seen her in 10 years, because you have four mutual friends -- a good predictor of direct friendship. But sometimes Facebook gets ...

Rethinking artificial intelligence: Researchers hope to produce 'co-processors' for the human mind

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Dec 07, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 9

The field of artificial-intelligence research (AI), founded more than 50 years ago, seems to many researchers to have spent much of that time wandering in the wilderness, swapping hugely ambitious goals for ...

Cyber hacking could be a thing of the past

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Dec 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-profile websites are constantly under threat from hackers attempting to paralyse their websites but new research could make such attacks computationally impossible. This research will ...

Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

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Dec 04, 2009 | 1 / 5 (2) | 0

You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors ...

'Digging into Data Challenge' grant awarded

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Dec 04, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A professor at Tufts University will lead a team of international researchers to explore how humanities scholars can use data analysis to track topics about the Greco-Roman world as they appear in a million documents, spanning ...

Researchers Build Artificial Immune System to Solve Computational Problems

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Dec 03, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (14) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- By mimicking the way that a living body acquires immunity to disease through vaccination, researchers have designed an artificial immune system to solve optimization problems more effectively ...

New software to simulate future financial crises

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can economics better predict how banks will react to future credit crunches and their impact on the wider economy? Breakthrough simulation software by European researchers could hold the answers ...

CSIRO researchers create giant waves -- virtually

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have created 'rogue waves' more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas production platforms to compare different mooring designs.

Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video)

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Dec 02, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 4

Taking inspiration from genetic screening techniques, researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

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Dec 01, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...