Some security researchers even believe that the CAPTCHA-breaking software was using Tesseract--an open source image recognition software sponsored by Google itself and used in its book-scanning projects--to recognize the distorted characters.

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The prototype uses an open-source speech-recognition program called Pocket Sphinx, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, but Dr Kristensson reckons it would be easy to apply the same approach to commercially available programs like Nuance's Dragon.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

This opens the world's largest and most trusted source of music metadata and music recognition technology to developers who are building the future of music.

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Today, Thompson knows his actor identity is the main source of the name-and-face recognition that makes him viable in national politics.

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Google is poised to tap into that growing revenue source with or without Blinkx's image and audio recognition technology, says company spokesperson Brandon McCormick.

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Such efforts will likely be influenced by a growing awareness on Capitol Hill and among nongovernmental groups of this potent new source of U.S. foreign-policy leverage and a recognition that it can be exploited largely without the collateral damage to U.S. interests (harm to exports and jobs) inflicted by trade sanctions.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Bush's views were nothing short of sacrilege not only for the Arabs and the Europeans, but for Washington's foreign policy establishment, headquartered at the State Department and the CIA. For the men and women of these bureaucracies, Bush's recognition that the Arab regimes they championed were the primary source of regional instability and anti-Americanism was a repudiation of everything they worked for.

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