TR10: Reality Mining
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Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn more about human behavior and social interactions.
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Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.
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Exploring the family tree in search of roots (or royal family connections).
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Predictions from a neural network could make characters' movements less jerky.
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Tips for improving the efficiency of job searches on the Web.
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.
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A newly unearthed paper shows how AT&T researchers working to combat fraud developed an extension of the C programming language called Hancock.  It can comb through masses of telephone and internet data and plot relationships, opening the door to a new type of warrantless data-mining.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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Unsuspecting residents are lured in by shiny, foreign objects that unleash a self-replicating worm and bring the virtual world to a grinding halt. In Game|Life.
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You can find tomorrow's winners. Here's how.
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As a petri dish for examining what makes many of us tick, Second Life reveals just how deep-seated the drive is to fit in, look good and get ahead.
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Autonomy's Introspect e-discovery software now finds data stored in virtual environments.
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In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives. By Randy Dotinga.
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Imagining hundreds of outage-related micro-dramas unfolding simultaneously.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.