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HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

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18 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Most people have scores of contacts, scattered around their mobile phone, e-mail address book and multiple social networking sites. Scientists at Hewlett-Packard can tell you which of those contacts are your closest friends.

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

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20 hours ago | 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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23 hours ago | 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 ...

Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the University of Bristol.

US university coding future of news

Technology / Computer Sciences

Dec 16, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Personalized newscasts culled from the Web and presented by digital avatars. Baseball stories written by computers using raw data.

New Algorithm Ranks Sports Teams like Google's PageRank

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(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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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (15) | 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, ...