Computers: More parallel than others

Beating Netbooks Into Servers: Making Some Computers More Equal Than Others

With the advent of cheap netbooks, expanding Internet access to the developing world is becoming more and more feasible. However, classroom computers benefit from applications typically deployed on servers, such as proxy caches, WAN accelerators, backup, etc. Server infrastructure, unfortunately, is not as well suited for developing-world use, since it tends to be less ruggedized, more power-hu...

Some spikes are more informative than others.

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When some are more equal than others.

Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others

This paper describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Research Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001. We have participated in the Dutch Monolingual task and submitted three runs. In this paper we introduce a new method for relevance computation using two new query operators. This method is meant to be applied to Multilingual Retrieval in t...

What do ye more than others?