Researchers’ new algorithm helps computers distinguish between people with the same name

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Solving that problem is the challenge that computer scientists Murat Dundar and Mohammad al Hasan, and doctoral student Baichuan Zhang, all of Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis, set themselves. They claim to have made an improvement on old methods, by using machine learning and a variety of sources to help figure out who’s who with different data sets.