UFO Crawler: The New Paranormal Search Engine
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After graduating from a high school whose mascot was a “grey ghost,” named after the spirit of a girl who haunts the old building as occasionally reported by janitors and employees, I have had a soft side for people who make seemingly wild claims about seeing ghosts or UFO’s. […]

Interview with Google’s Matt Cutts about Next-Generation Search
In a recent interview with Read/WriteWeb, Google employee (head of the Webspam team) Matt Cutts talks briefly about applying Google’s PageRank concept to video search. Video search is becoming increasingly important to Google as it acquired and begins to integrate YouTube with its homebrewed Google Video offering. […]

The field of neural networking is today being explored rapidly. As Stergiou and Siganos (http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol4/cs11/report.html) point out, research had been nearly halted in the field for nearly three decades based on a misconception regarding the ability of a model regarding the mammalian system of vision and its ability to represent different shapes. Until […]

http://www.tech-recipes.com/google_tips481.html
The author of the above article discusses the method and success of the marketing scheme Google used for its beta version of GMail, its new email service. Even before the beta version was released in April 2004, news and rumors about a 1-gigabyte mailbox, Google searching emails, and other features were being discussed in […]

…or how you can go from “Network” to “Cadbury Creme Egg” in 12 clicks.
In my search for something “good” to post about I came across some xkcd comics that I couldn’t pass up. Since they don’t really have any intellectual integrity, I thought I would just post them for fun and use one as the […]

In class we alluded to the fact that a computer simulation is one method to show that the results of Network Exchange Theory could be replicated from probabilistic behavior rules enacted by computer programs. Not surprisingly there this method of computer simulation can be extended to explore a variety of other social phenomena. […]

Link - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/technology/09data.html
The contemporary notion that technology becomes obsolete as quickly as it’s developed has been applicable to many thing from processors to mp3 players, but not to the core of internet usability and ebusiness commerce - web searching. Historically web searching has been done by querying a search engine that has a repository […]

Optical fibers are the bedrock of modern communications. Since its invention in the 1970’s over 300 million kilometers of optical fiber have been produced. One fiber has the ability to carry 60 millions simultaneous telephone calls. These amazing properties are being called to service everyday in our global information network. So when a 7.1 Richter […]

M-Dot Strange Finds a Way at Sundance
“M-dot Strange” is a 27 year old from San Jose, CA who has been making a movie titled “We are the Strange”. Before reading the article, the movie and the director had no relevance to me, but as someone who is interested in Sundance, I was introduced to […]

This recent article in the Globe and Mail describes a new social network being cultivated online: DNAancestryproject.com, a network that links people based on their related genes. This website is being run by Genetrack Biolabs, Inc., a DNA testing lab that has, until now, primarily focused on paternity testing and legal investigations. Those interested in […]