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...currently existing encryption schemes are based on improvable assumptions," Rabin said. "As a consequence, it is in principle possible that people using a secret algorithm and a sufficiently powerful computer will be able to break a code...

Author: By Sumi A. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Unbreakable Code Discovered | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

...site uses an algorithm created by Gusmorino to compare textbook prices at various online booksellers and help students locate the best deal...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Not the Kind of Money We Need': Popular UC Books Program Can't Save Council From Budget Shortfall | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Several other universities have expressed interest in the UC Books' "computationally complex" algorithm, Gusmorino says--something which could serve as an "especially enticing" source of revenue for the council...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Not the Kind of Money We Need': Popular UC Books Program Can't Save Council From Budget Shortfall | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

Appiah says that textbooks--he wrote one on philosophy and edited an encyclopedia on Africa--are not meant as an algorithm for generating a lecture and thus do not present a compromise to Harvard's integrity when sold to the outside world...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profiting Professors | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

During one portion of the speech I described a computer simulation of undergraduate life at Harvard. "When technology was still primitive, this was a simple algorithm that made the computer repeat 'Habermas,' until you cried," I said. I wrote about my classes as if they were only b.s.-tossing sessions and made my classmates out to be a bunch of competitive smooth-talkers never satisfied with their own success. There were also a couple of Britney Spears jokes, but not enough to salvage the speech...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Content To Be Bitter | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

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