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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 ...

US university coding future of news

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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, ...

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

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(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 ...

HP researchers try to tell you who your friends are

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Dec 17, 2009 | 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.

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 ...

Visit Pompeii with the Victorians in Second Life

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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.

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.