domenica 11 febbraio 2007
domenica 7 gennaio 2007
sabato 6 gennaio 2007
facial recognition program surfing web
Better Photo Search Could Reduce Privacy from PhysOrg.com
(AP) -- A Swedish startup is combining software and humans to help make photos and other images more easily searchable online, raising privacy concerns as the technology eases the tracking of people across Web sites.
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wikipedia enters the robot mind
Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter from PhysOrg.com
Using Wikipedia, Technion researchers have developed a way to give computers knowledge of the world to help them “think smarter,” making common sense and broad-based connections between topics just as the human mind does. The new method will help computers filter e-mail spam, perform Web searches and even conduct intelligence gathering at more sophisticated levels than current programs.
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extra-solar asteroid belt
Rocky Finding -- Evidence of Extrasolar Asteroid Belt from PhysOrg.com
Providing the best evidence yet for an asteroid belt beyond the solar system, new measurements pinpoint the location of such a disk of warm dust surrounding the star Zeta Leporis. As the January 6, 2007 issue of Science News reports, this dust lies about the same distance from Zeta Leporis as the solar system’s asteroid belt lies from the sun. Margaret M. Moerchen and Charles M. Telesco and their colleagues at the University of Florida in Gainesville report these findings in an upcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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