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Comment Re:Playing catch-up (Score 1) 188

And you are positive Google maps was out before Mapblast and TerraServer. At the very least Google maps copied Mapblast and Google Earth copied TerraServer. I recall using both of them before googtle was even born. oh yea, check out the owner of mapblast and the supporter of terraserver.

Microsoft To Automate Malware Classification 124

Kuzulu Kuhuru writes "Researchers in Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team are using distance measure and machine learning technologies to automate the process of classifying new strains of computer viruses, Trojans and other malicious software programs." From the article: "Microsoft's proposal will take a 'holistic approach' to tackle the classification problem, Lee said, pointing out that the machine learning aspects will deal with everything, from knowledge consumption, representation and storage, to classifier model generation and selection. It aims to consume knowledge about the malware sample efficiently and automatically and represent that knowledge in a form that results in minimal information loss. "

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