bspw. ANT Censuses of the Internet Address Space: https://ant.isi.edu/address/ | Almost optimal way to take a 1-dimensional array of bytes, and arrange them in 2 dimensions, such that bytes that are close together in a single dimension are also close in two dimensions
Computer scientists at MIT have developed a program called Helium that can automatically revamp and fine-tune old code, without needing the original source, in a matter of hours or even minutes.
Entropy analysis examines the statistical variation in malware executables, enabling analysts to quickly and efficiently identify packed and encrypted samples.
Researchers believe that comparing products, rather than rating them on an absolute scale, will lead to algorithms that better predict customers’ preferences. ----------------- http://horicky.blogspot.com/2011/09/recommendation-engine.html