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New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sports fans may be interested in a new system that ranks NFL and college football teams in a simple, straightforward way, similar to how Google PageRank ranks webpages. The new sports algorithm, ...

Sign language puzzle solved

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1hour ago | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for 40 years that even though it takes longer to use sign language to sign individual words, sentences can be signed, on average, in the same time it takes to say them, ...

Pandemic toolkit offers flu with a view

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(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 ...

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 ...

Quantitative approach to forensic fingerprint comparison studied

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded researchers at Virginia Tech a two-year, $854,907 grant to develop a quantitative approach to measuring and establishing a standard for "sufficiency" of information available ...

Semantic research sets world standards

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Nov 27, 2009 | 3.4 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also unblock some key bottlenecks ...

Building real security with virtual worlds

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Nov 26, 2009 | 4 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Advances in computerized modeling and prediction of group behavior, together with improvements in video game graphics, are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore ...

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

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Nov 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

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Nov 23, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...

World's first album of Twitter music available now

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Nov 19, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 0

For the first time, you can now download an album of digital music written exclusively for Twitter.