The algorithm could be of great interest to Twitter, which could charge a premium for ads linked to popular topics, but it also represents a new approach to statistical analysis that could, in theory, apply to any quantity that varies over time: the duration of a bus ride, ticket sales for films, maybe even stock prices.
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The mavericks had also proved they could run the algorithm on cheap computers chained together.
The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.
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The team fed the algorithm as much data as they could from the Cisco patent and told the software to design around it.
Yes, Google essentially controls the search results with its algorithm and could potentially use its position to affect other companies.
If the brokerage bosses demanded that a particular algorithm be hurried into the marketplace, the software engineers could do what those airline mechanics at LaGuardia do: shrug and point to the rules.
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Google usually likes to do everything by the algorithm, but in this case that could overload the movie with extras, or throw in questionable content.
When a stone is identified as a borderline case between two grades, the system uses an optimisation technique, called a genetic algorithm, to explore the different ways in which the stone could be cut to maximise its value.
MP3, owners of the player could download, for a fee, a new decompression algorithm for their player from the maker's website.
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By creating a mathematical algorithm, the charity hopes to predict whether someone could be a good match using the information gathering in initial testing.
Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize.
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An algorithm would recognize that the car is now in motion and could enforce certain behavior on any third party app installed on the car.
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Such an algorithm could also be instrumental in identifying psychiatric conditions that impact the speech centers of the brain.
Could the next book you read or publish be written by an algorithm or by a machine?
Now, of course, the company consists of a lot more than its page-rank algorithm, which could easily be duplicated elsewhere.
It would be as if an algorithm could generate blueprints for a building that ideally should be informed in part by the preferences of those who commissioned it, as well as the topography of the space and the surroundings, but instead of a rich variety of products it becomes routine to get a Frank Gehry-inspired building on every block.
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Perhaps Google could open up about its algorithm a little more, and perhaps more education of the public is needed.
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The most appealing thing about Turin's hypothesis was that he was now able to develop an algorithm that could predict smell from vibrational data.
The algorithm was revolutionary to start: the results were spectacular along a thrillingly long tail, results appeared before you could blink and the home page was a minimalist marvel. (Still is.) If you didn't live online through those years you might not naturally imagine the love and admiration Google received across all online demographics.
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