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11.22.09

Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize For Improved Recommendations Engine

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 09.21.2009 at 1:17 pm 1 Comment

A team of former rivals has officially won the competition to improve Netflix movie recommendations. The collaborative known as BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos took home a $1-million prize today for their winning submission from July 26, which beat out yet another rival team's matching submission by just 20 minutes.

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Internet Giants Could Slash Energy Costs 40 Percent With Smart Rerouting Algorithm

A routing algorithm can channel Internet data to locations where electricity prices are cheapest

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 08.17.2009 at 1:15 pm 1 Comment

Moving computing from the desktop to the 24/7 data centers of the "cloud" may be the way forward (just ask Google), but it will come with a hefty energy price. Teams at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University, however, are developing a smart algorithm that could reroute Internet traffic to where energy is cheapest at any given moment, potentially saving millions of dollars in energy usage.

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