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Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs

Posted in Google (January 4, 2008 at 11:41 pm)

Googling Yourself writes “Researchers in the UK plan to use Google’s PageRank algorithm to find how super-bugs like MRSA spread in a hospital setting. Previous studies have discovered how particular objects, like doctors’ neckties, can harbor infection, but little is known about the network routes by which bugs spread. Mathematician Simon Shepherd plans to build a matrix describing all interactions between people and objects in a hospital ward, based on observing normal daily activity.”

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