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Researchers Teach Computers to Search for Photos Based on Their Contents

October 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet

A pair of Penn State researchers has developed a statistical approach, called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time (ALIPR), that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs. ...


Hack-a-vote: Students learn how vulnerable electronic voting really is

October 07, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s) | User comments: 4

This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines.


CERN openlab boosts the performance of LHC computing

October 06, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3

The LHC Grid Fest, held last Friday at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and at several sites around the world, commemorated the readiness of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). At full capacity, the Large Hadron Collider ...


Visualizing election polls

October 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s) | No comments yet

Do you want to know the percentage of white women who support vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin? What about college-educated versus high school-educated white women? Or those who also hunt?