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Electrical engineers recently pitted Genius -- the music recommendation system in Apple's iTunes -- against two experimental music recommender systems.
The following highlights summarize research papers that have been published or accepted for publication (paper in press) in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL).
There is one striking fact about rush-hour traffic -- vehicles on the commuter routes tend to be occupied by just one person, even though motoring costs are continually rising.
No matter how good a search engine is, it is sometimes necessary to change the search terms to get the information you need. But what if you did not have to change the search terms yourself? What if the search engine could do that for you?
Electrical engineers at UC San Diego created games on Facebook in order to improve their experimental music search engine that is capable of listening to new songs and accurately labeling them with words—with no help from humans. These computer-labeled songs can then be retrieved later when someone types these same words into the cutting-edge music search engine.
How do you tell if a website you are browsing is a showing you a personal web page expressing the opinions of an individual or the marketing speak of a commercial site in disguise? Information engineers in India and Japan believe they have found an automatic way to discriminate between personal web pages and commercial pages designed to fool consumers.
A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist attacks. The approach involves revealing the nodes that act as hubs in a terrorist network and tracing back to individual planners and perpetrators.
In the world of search engines, clicks mean cash, and in a sluggish economy, companies can benefit by maximizing click-throughs to their Web sites from search engines.
The rate of ad clicks from sponsored and non-sponsored links was reported in a recent study conducted by researchers from Penn State and the Queensland University of Technology
Jim Jansen, assistant professor of information science and technology, Penn State, along with Amanda Spink, professor of information technology, Queensland University of Technology, studied the rate of ad clicks th
Computer science researchers at Stanford University have developed several new techniques that together may make it possible to calculate Web page rankings as used in the Google search engine up to five times faster. The speed-ups to Google's method may make it realistic to calculate page rankings personalized for an individual's interests or customized to a particular topic.
