Day: September 27, 2013

End to Keywords Slavery: Hummingbird

Pooja Kashyap

Google has modified its search engine car with a brand new engine called Hummingbird. After the much-hyped Penguin, Panda and other updates, the big G made a huge leap with an altogether new search algo. As is the case with the secure search, Hummingbird too is created keeping in mind the users requirements. I feel Google is trying to become interactive with the users in helping them in landing on the exact location, which is defined by the search query.

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Mathematical Obfuscation: A Trajectory In Cryptographic Research

Pooja Kashyap

Figuring out any computational system’s Achilles’ heel won’t be a trouble-free job as it might be before. Hackers are you listening! Period. Algorithms now are so progressive that deducing future trends is just a matter of few lines of codes. For instance, alogs can calculate which post might pull the maximum readership, on what topic one gets the highest number of tweets or how many times one scans own pic after uploading on facebook (this one’s for datasexuals).

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Magnetic Energy Near Earth Responsible For Space Weather

Pooja Kashyap

If we look up at the sky, we find there is no notion of chaos and everything is calm and stillness prevails but this is not the actual case, at least not in the orbit surrounding the earth or the interplanetary space. Some or the other form of activity is reigning in the region which gives rise to space weather. Explosions of solar material and magnetic fields of strong potency are some of the activities that are thronging the interplanetary space. These eruptions causes weather alterations on the planet Earth…

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