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The newest AI computing tool: people

06-27-2007 · EurekAlert!

A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher is among a growing group of computer scientists learning to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability and meaning by datamining public websites like Digg, del.icio.us and Flickr.

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