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Researchers Classify Web Searches
April 13, 2008 Although millions of people use Web search engines, researchers completed by show that -- by using relatively simple methods -- most queries submitted can be classified into one of three ... > full story -
Creating Quantum Computers Using Entangled Photons In Optical Fibers Getting Closer
April 9, 2008 Computer scientists are one step closer to realizing distributed quantum computing. They recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled ... > full story -
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Why Is The Internet Sometimes So Slow? Internet 'Black Holes' May Be To Blame
April 9, 2008 A surprisingly large fraction of Web traffic gets sucked into temporary black holes, in which information between two computers disappears en route. A new online observatory monitors Internet black ... > full story -
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Computer Taught To Recognize Attractiveness In Women
April 5, 2008 Will the Miss America pageant ever be the same? "Beauty," goes the old saying, "is in the eye of the beholder." But does the beholder have to be human? Not necessarily, say computer scientists who ... > full story -
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Techniques To Help Retired People Feel Comfortable Using Computers
April 2, 2008 How can pensioners with little if any computer skills successfully cope with a digital information system? According to researchers, the design of an accessible system needs to incorporate large ... > full story -
3D Library Visit: Using Second Life To Research Everyday Problems
April 1, 2008 Second Life is more than an on-line game for some young scientists. It is a handy three-dimensional tool used for resolving real issues. Computer Science students have recently used it to analyze and ... > full story -
New Breed Of Cognitive Robot Is A Lot Like A Puppy
March 31, 2008 Designers of artificial cognitive systems have tended to adopt one of two approaches to building robots that can think for themselves: classical rule-based artificial intelligence or artificial ... > full story -
New Genomics Software Infers Ancestry With High Accuracy
March 27, 2008 Some people may know where their ancestors lived 10 or 20 generations ago, but the rest of us can learn our distant biological heritage only from our DNA. New genomics analysis software developed by ... > full story -
A Chemical 'Keypad Lock' For Biomolecular Computers
March 25, 2008 Researchers are reporting an advance toward a new generation of ultra-powerful computers built from DNA and enzymes, rather than transistors, silicon chips, and plastic. They describe development of ... > full story -
Computers Show How Bats Classify Plants According To Their Echoes
March 24, 2008 Researchers have developed a computer algorithm that can imitate the bat's ability to classify plants using echolocation. The study represents a collaboration between machine learning scientists and ... > full story -
Algorithm Finds The Network -- For Genes Or The Internet
March 19, 2008 Human diseases and social networks seem to have little in common. However, at the crux of these two lies a network, communities within the network, and farther even, substructures of the communities. ... > full story -
Next-generation Software Created To Identify Complex Cyber Network Attacks
March 18, 2008 Researchers have developed new software that can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability paths through an organization's networks. By their very nature networks ... > full story
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