The results can be as unsurprising as confirmation of a long-suspected, low-level version of an easily treatable condition--anemia, for instance--to a high level of alpha-fetoprotein, which has been linked to some liver disorders.

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High frequency traders and investment managers are seeking alpha wherever they think they can find it, said Casey.

FORBES: Firms Look to Event Driven Trading for Greater Alpha

DEC's high-end workstations and the servers that use its blazingly fast Alpha 64-bit microprocessor and run on the Unix operating system open up new markets for Compaq.

ECONOMIST: Compaq goes after Big Blue

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was designed to search for dark matter by collecting high energy radiation known as cosmic rays, and then sort through it looking for a certain class of particle believed to be created after two bits of dark matter collide in space and destroy each other.

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Alpha and Tandem's Himalaya servers are technically unmatched, but the market for such specialised high-end machines is small.

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