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System improves automated monitoring of security cameras

Police and security teams guarding airports, docks and border crossings from terrorist attack or illegal entry need to know immediately when someone enters a prohibited area, and who they are. A network of surveillance cameras ...

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A search engine for social networks based on the behavior of ants

Research at Carlos III University in Madrid is developing an algorithm, based on ants' behavior when they are searching for food, which accelerates the search for relationships among elements that are present ...

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created 14 hours ago | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers develop method that shows diverse complex networks have similar skeletons

Northwestern University researchers are the first to discover that very different complex networks -- ranging from global air traffic to neural networks -- share very similar backbones. By stripping each network down to its ...

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

MIT, Intel unveil new initiatives addressing 'big data'

MIT has been selected from among 55 institutions that submitted 157 proposals to host a new Intel research center that will concentrate on what’s come to be called “big data” -- new techniques ...

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding good music in noisy online markets

In 2004, a trio of researchers at Columbia University began an online experiment in social-media marketing, creating nine versions of a music-download site that presented the same group of unknown songs in ...

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created May 31, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computers excel at identifying smiles of frustration (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have trained computers to recognize smiles, and they have turned out to be more adept at recognizing smiles of frustration ...

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Malware intelligence system enables organizations to share threat information

As malware threats expand into new domains and increasingly focus on industrial espionage, Georgia Tech researchers are launching a new weapon to help battle the threats: a malware intelligence system that ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fighting house fires with computer models

(Phys.org) -- Through advanced computer modelling of house fires, mechanical engineers at UNSW are giving fire fighters a new suite of tools to investigate and battle dangerous blazes in time for the traditionally ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Automated image analysis arises from handcraft and machine learning

The amount of visual information increases with tremendous speed. The archives of television networks, image bank databases and social media in the web are all bursting with billions of pictures – and more is produced ...

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created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First map of Australia's Twittersphere

The first map of the Australian 'Twittersphere' has been generated by researchers at QUT.

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Study highlights how Twitter is used to share information after a disaster

A study from North Carolina State University shows how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, highlighting challenges for using the social media tool to share information. The study ...

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Data in the fast lane

A new approach to managing data over a network has enabled a Microsoft Research team to set a speed record for sifting through, or “sorting,” a huge amount of data in one minute.

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Computing experts unveil superefficient 'inexact' chip

Researchers have unveiled an "inexact" computer chip that challenges the industry's dogmatic 50-year pursuit of accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by allowing for occasional errors. ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 44 | with audio podcast

Internet usage patterns may signify depression

(Phys.org) -- In a new study analyzing Internet usage among college students, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have found that students who show signs of depression tend to use the Internet differently ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7