NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition (Monday 22nd of December 2008 02:00:01 AM)
Jd writes "NIST has announced the round 1 entrants for the Cryptographic Hash Algorithm
Challenge. Of the 64 who submitted entries, 51 were accepted. Of those, in mere days, one has
been definitely broken, and three others are believed to have been. At ...
(more)A Quantum Linear Equation Solver (Saturday 06th of December 2008 03:45:01 AM)
Joe writes "Aram Harrow and fellowship have just published on the arXiv a quantum algorithm for
solving systems of linear equations (paper, PDF). Until now, the only quantum algorithms of
practical consequence have been Shor's algorithm for prime factoring, ...
(more)Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition (Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:15:06 AM)
Circletimessquare brings us an update to the status of the million-dollar Netflix tug of war to
develop a better algorithm for movie recommendations. We've discussed aspects of the battle
since it started two years ago, but the New York Times has a lengthy ...
(more)NSA and Army On Quest For Quantum Physics Jackpot (Wednesday 29th of October 2008 08:45:01 AM)
Coondoggie sends this excerpt from NetworkWorld: "The US Army probing Office and the subject
warrant
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assurance Agency (NSA) are in concert ...
(more)Algorithms Can Make You Pretty (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has an interesting story on a new algorithm by
researchers from Tel Aviv health center that modifies a facial picture of a person to conform
to right of attractiveness. Based on a digital library of picture show ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms (Sunday 25th of May 2008 07:26:16 AM)
Overmars writes "After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google
is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded
secret for two reasons: rivalry and to prevent abuse, said Udi ...
(more)Researchers Create an Automatic Backup Band for Singers (Tuesday 08th of April 2008 04:55:45 AM)
Researchers at Microsoft Labs are hoping to allow untrained singers to have their own automatic
backup band in the near future. A new piece of software, "MySong", promises to take a sung
melody and using a probability computation algorithm, generate an ...
(more)Augmenting Data Beats Better Algorithms (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 12:30:01 PM)
Eldavojohn writes "A teacher is atonement empirical witness
notes:evidence (from latin e- 'out'
+ videre 'to see') is clue that helps form a conclusion; proof is factual intelligence that
verifies a conclusion that when you're mining data, augmenting ...
(more)Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption (Friday 14th of September 2007 11:00:07 AM)
Holy_calamity writes "Two fishing expedition* teams have independently made quantum computers
that run the prime-number-factorising Shor's algorithm — a significant step towards
second-story work public key cryptography. Most of the article is sadly ...
(more)Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images (Thursday 09th of August 2007 09:45:03 PM)
Beetle B. writes in with research from Carnegie Mellon demonstrating a new way to replace
arbitrarily shaped blank areas in an image with portions of images from a huge catalog in a
totally seamless manner. From the abstract: "In this paper we present ...
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