Computer science news

Spam or Ham?

A new approach to spam filtering could use your web browsing habits to help your email program filter out spam and find the ham.

Social Networking for Terrorists

Social networks could be analyzed to reveal the nodes that act as hubs and trace back to individual planners and perpetrators, which when applied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks correctly inferred important individuals responsible for the attacks.

The AlloSphere: Flying through a giant virtual brain?

UCSB develops the Allosphere, a three-story cube that allows researchers to immerse themselves in a three-dimensional visualization of scientific data.

Enter Adam, the Robot Scientist

A robot makes its own scientific discoveries as it designs hypotheses and carries out experiments to confirm them, discovering which genes code for specific enzymes in a species of yeast.

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