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

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

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 ...

Glasgow's joking computer

Technology / Computer Sciences

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.

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 ...

Sign language puzzle solved

Technology / Computer Sciences

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, ...

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, ...

Internet-based customized newscast has been cooking in the InfoLab at a US university for over three years

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.

HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

Eureqa, the robot scientist (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology

Technology / Computer Sciences

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 ...

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

Technology / Computer Sciences

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.

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 ...

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 ...