Fighting malware and spam
2007-01-01
Abstract
The 15th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2006) took place in November 2006. For the second time, TREC included a spam track, whose purpose was to create realistic standardized benchmarks to measure spam filter effectiveness in a laboratory setting. Gordon Cormack reports on the results.
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VB100 certification
The final VB100 of the year sees a double whammy of potential
pitfalls for our comparative participants - the
Vista operating system, which still seems shiny
and new as well as a little scary (to both developers and users), as well
as the x64 architecture, whose ostensible compatibility with standard
32-bit software belies oddities and intricacies that developers ignore at
their peril. The announcement of the test brought a few surprises, as
several regulars opted to skip this one, but the majority of veteran
competitors took part as usual, along with several newer faces, many of
whom look set to join the ranks of our regulars.
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