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Coolest University Tech Lab Projects in the Works

Posted by timothy on from the tuition-begets-intuition dept.

NW writes "While universities like MIT, Berkeley and CMU don't tend to shout as loudly about their latest tech innovations as do Google, Cisco and other big vendors, their results are no less impressive in what they could mean for faster, more secure and more useful networks, computers, etc. Here's a good roundup of 25 of them, from studies on putting T-Rays to use in computers to advancing wireless to the next level to outsmarting terrorists on the Web."

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  1. Re:55 saves gas by GumphMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Driving constantly at slower speed definitely saves fuel for the single vehicle. Driving with an erratic, typically slower, speed because you are not paying attention while on the phone will increase fuel consumption; accelerating on and off is wasteful. Further, traffic is not a single vehicle but an aggregate of many vehicles. In your phone induced daze, you are also slowing traffic around you, which then has to accelerate to jockey into position, overtake and regain highway speed; also wasteful.

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    Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
  2. I can beat that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The bulk of searches (80%) proved to be informational, with the other 20% split between navigational and transactional. The researchers used an algorithm that they say classified searches with a 74% accuracy rate. "

    I have a better algorithm that achieves 80% accuracy, verses their 74%....

        int QueryTypeClassifier(char *str)
        {
            return INFORMATIONAL;
        }

    I better starting working on the research paper before those conference deadlines hit.