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Data Mining Made Faster
University of Utah researchers have developed a new multidimensional scaling method that they say enables simpler, faster data mining.
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Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear, the first step in a system that advocates...
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Safety in Numbers
Mathematicians and computer scientists are working on equations and algorithms that exhibit potential as terrorism countermeasures. These include powerful algorithms...
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Brighter Color For Reflective E-Reading Displays
Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a composite material that use ambient light to create more vibrant colors for video-capable, low-power screens.
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Geo-Tags Reveal Celeb Secrets
U.S. computer scientists have demonstrated that by using information from Internet images and videos it is possible to determine the addresses and locations of...
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Letting the Machines Decide
Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better.
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ECS Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) recently became the United Kingdom's first university department to release all...
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Solving the Crisis of Choice Online
In an age of information overload, a team of European researchers are developing technology to solve the "crisis of choice" people face when surfing the Web, shopping...
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Flexible Organic Transistor Memory Looks Promising For Future Electronics
South Korean engineers have developed a flexible memory based on an organic transistor, which they say could be integrated, along with transistors and logic circuits...
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International Conference Confronts Data Deluge
At the recent International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, scientific domain experts, database researchers, practitioners, and developers...
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Soccer Stars Ranked sing Statistics
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a computer program that objectively measures player performance; the research method also could be used...
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Lines of C++ Code
The final of the Rendering Algorithms class at the University of California, San Diego, has become a friendly competition among students, who apply what they've...
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Compression Technique Reduces Storage Needs and Costs For Genomic Data
The Translational Genomics Research Institute has developed a new computer data compression technique for storing, analyzing, and sharing huge volumes of genomic...
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A Step Closer to Perfect 3D Data Storage
In the introduction to a paper in press in the Journal of Biotechnology, Virgile Adam of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, along with a long list...
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Search Engines Learn How to Watch and Listen to Video
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...
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IBM Research Grant Awarded For Database Enhancement Application Development
The University of Haifa's Ami and Teddy Sagy Center for the Study of the Internet has been awarded IBM's $40,000 Open Collaborative Research grant for their proposal...
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Share Information to Boost Cellphone Performance
Dartmouth College researchers led by Emiliano Miluzzo say that sharing data gathered by cell phone sensors could improve the accuracy of the data and the applications...
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Synthetic Dna Could Revolutionize Information Processing
A synthetic form of DNA developed by University of Reading chemists has the potential to revolutionize the way digital information is processed and stored.
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Flash! Supercomputing Goes Solid-State
A prototype system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Hyperion Data Intensive Testbed uses more than 100 terabytes of flash memory to demonstrate how flash...
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