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Energy efficient data mining algorithms

Posted By Markus On February 28, 2010 12:21 pm @ 12:21 pm (February 28, 2010) In Data Mining | No Comments

I was a bit amused to read about this [1] new algorithm that IBM research developed and that was sold as “energy efficient” in their press-release. This is good marketing, because the average journalist and reader might not understand the impact of the improvement. It just sounds a lot better to be green and save energy than to improve computational complexity…

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[1] new algorithm that IBM research developed and that was sold as “energy efficient”: http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/02/26/1343222/IBM-Claims-Breakthrough-Energ
y-Efficient-Algorithm?art_pos=3

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