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Math can make the Internet 5-10 times faster

Posted: 17 Jul 2014 06:48 AM PDT

Mathematical equations can make Internet communication via computer, mobile phone or satellite many times faster and more secure than today. A new study uses a four minute long mobile video as an example. The method used by the Danish and US researchers in the study resulted in the video being downloaded five times faster than state of the art technology. The video also streamed without interruptions. In comparison, the original video got stuck 13 times along the way.

No-wait data centers: Data-transmission delays across server farms can be reducd by 99. 6 percent

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 03:32 PM PDT

Big websites usually maintain their own "data centers," banks of tens or even hundreds of thousands of servers, all passing data back and forth to field users' requests. Like any big, decentralized network, data centers are prone to congestion: Packets of data arriving at the same router at the same time are put in a queue, and if the queues get too long, packets can be delayed. Researchers have designed a new network-management system that, in experiments, reduced the average queue length of routers in a Facebook data center by 99.6 percent -- virtually doing away with queues.

Development of automatic system for translating biomedical patents in real time

Posted: 16 Jul 2014 06:07 AM PDT

A prototype of an automatic translation system for patents in the biomedical area has been developed by researchers. The system can be used to create multilingual documents with the same structure as the original patents, including images, formulae and other kinds of annotations. In addition, the system works in real time and can be incorporated in web applications.