The number of citations a paper receives is generally thought to be a good and relatively objective measure of its significance and impact. Researchers naturally are interested in knowing how to...
August 15, 2010
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Using a combination of mathematical tricks, good programming and 35 CPU-years on Google’s servers, a group of researchers have proved that every position of Rubik’s Cube can be solved in 20 moves...
August 13, 2010
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Seen on the Web: “Swoogle is an alien from outer space send out to spy on the modnation circuit. He got five faces so he can watch them from all angles without turning his head. However only his...
August 13, 2010
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Washington Technology, which describes itself as “the online authority for government contractors and partners”), has an article by Carlos A. Soto on 5 technologies that will change the market....
August 1, 2010
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Google Chrome has been showing me a malware warning page today as I try to visit normally trusted and benign sites. I got this one just now as I tried to got to Planet RDF. Warning: Visiting...
July 31, 2010
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The W3C has published a second working draft of EmotionML, or the emotion markup language, Here’s how it’s described. As the web is becoming ubiquitous, interactive, and multimodal, technology...
July 31, 2010
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This week’s New Yorker magazine has an article by Anthony Gottlieb on different voting systems, including range voting. WIN OR LOSE: No voting system is flawless. But some are less democratic...
July 25, 2010
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Apple’s Safari browser has a privacy vulnerability allowing web sites you visit to extract your personal information (e.g., name, address, phone number) from your computer’s address book. The fix...
July 22, 2010
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Google announced today that it has acquired Metaweb, the company behind Freebase — a free, semantic database of “over 12 million people, places, and things in the world.” This is from their...
July 16, 2010
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