algorithm in comment and analysis
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment The service is powered by a sophisticated music recognition algorithm, able even to split hairs between different recordings of the same song, which refers to a four-million-strong song database that must be constantly updated. [12 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up Next week, a robot that will take your fighting dogs for a walk and news of a complex algorithm that will enable drivers to work out what the largest possible spoiler they can fit to their Escort would be before it actually stops being able to move. [10 Nov 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment The routing algorithm is based on the position of the vehicles and is able to handle the typically fast changes of ad hoc networks. If car-to-car technology comes through, waiting in jams and skidding on ice patches could be a thing of the past. [21 Jun 2006]
Brampton Factor: Are Google, IBM and Microsoft really rivals?
Comment Much of the background work for Google was done at Stanford University, which actually owns the PageRank algorithm, although Google has exclusive use of it until 2011. silicon.com is proud to introduce a new monthly column by long-time contributor... [25 Apr 2006]
Criminal IT: There's no cure-all for information security
Comment It says that there is no cast-iron, 100 per cent certain algorithm for evaluating a program other than to run it and to see whether or not it reaches a so-called 'halt state'. While there are many ways to establish security of IT systems, none can... [22 Jun 2005]
Election '05: High-tech v doorstep canvassing
Comment Richard Allan, who is stepping down as MP for the area and is in charge of Clegg's campaign, says there is an algorithm that can spot likely names of elderly people, such as Elsie or Florence. "What's your position on corporate manslaughter? [05 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 17.11.04
Round-Up Or, more likely, it sounds like the 'let's quantify data as books' metaphor was 'The Idea' that emerged from a brain dump by some marketing execs and not a result of a complex algorithm calculated by techies. [17 Dec 2004]
Leader: Our election, your vote against Microsoft?
Leader The list was rounded out by academic and computer algorithm guru Donald E Knuth - whose work is being used to fight software patents - and Skype CEO Niklas Zennström - whose company is taking on incumbent telecoms companies. [04 Nov 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 3)
Comment Could spam be easily stopped with a simple reverse look-up algorithm? Tim Maguire asks: "Could spam be easily stopped with a simple reverse look-up algorithm? Following the publication of the first and second instalments of this three-part Q&A... [06 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: That’s MY code
Comment If anything should involve ownership rights, is it the program code or is it the algorithm that is implemented by the code? For centuries ownership of any idea or creation has been contentious. The latest wrangling is nothing new, writes Martin... [30 Jun 2003]
The Ovum View: The wireless LAN security nightmare
Comment The authors of the 802.11 standard selected the WEP (Wireless Equivalent Privacy) algorithm to provide encryption within the available resources of low powered mobile devices. The WEP algorithm has some serious and fundamental flaws that were not... [20 Jun 2002]
Start-up of the month: Ecommerce without tears - or credit cards
Comment It does this by using a special algorithm to generate new credit numbers to the internationally recognised ISO standards. You may do a lot of buying online but there are still millions of web users afraid to give out their credit card numbers. [17 May 2002]
Technology is useful: Official!
Comment Erik Demaine, an assistant professor from MIT's computer science department, has produced an 'origami algorithm' to establish whether or not an unfurled map can be returned to its original state. First there was the pub-detecting watch (http://www... [21 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM and grid computing
Comment AFM and IBM will be employing a software application, developed by Geomining and based on the Smith-Waterman algorithm (whatever that is), which will work in a parallel manner, sharing the workload between a server and, hopefully, a vast network... [25 Nov 2001]
Windows XP: Five reasons to be cheerful
Comment XP includes a media access control (MAC) bridge using the Spanning Tree Algorithm so everything around a user can operate as a single IP subnet. Chris Setz is a well-known networking professional and frequent contributor to silicon.com TV programming. [24 Oct 2001]
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