Earlier this month UK dairy farmers and processing firms agreed a voluntary code of practice to help make contracts more transparent and develop "trust" within the industry.

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The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.

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In the future, we hope that a global army of open-source code developers, students and other experts in digital signal processing, as well as citizen scientists willing to lend their intelligence to our exploration, will have access to the same technology and join our quest.

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Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.

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