And the award goes to...

Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research Director

Corinna Cortes, Head of Google Research in New York, has just been awarded the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award jointly with Vladimir Vapnik (Royal Holloway College and NEC Research). The award recognizes their invention in the early 1990s of the soft-margin support vector machine, which has become the supervised machine learning method of choice for applications ranging from image analysis to document classification to bioinformatics.

What is so important about this invention? In supervised machine learning, we create algorithms that can learn a rule to accurately classify new examples based on a set of training examples (e.g. spam or non-spam). There is no single attribute of an email message that tells us with certainty that it is spam. Instead, many attributes have to be considered, forming a vector of very high dimension. The same situation arises in many other machine practical learning tasks, including many that we work on at Google.

To learn accurate classifiers, we need to solve several big problems. First, the rule learned from the training data should be accurate on new test examples, even though it has not seen those examples. In other words, the rule must generalize well. Second, we must be able to find the optimal rule efficiently. Both of these problems are especially daunting for very high dimensional data. Third, the method for computing the rule should be able to accommodate errors in the training data, such as messages that are given conflicting labels by different people (my spam may be your ham).

Soft-margin support vector machines wrap these three problems together into an elegant mathematical package. The crucial insight is that classification problems of this kind can be expressed as finding in very high dimension (or even infinite dimension) the hyperplane that best separates the positive examples (ham) from the negative ones (spam).

Remarkably, the solution of this problem does not depend on the dimensionality of the data, it depends only on the pairwise similarities between the training examples determined by the agreement or disagreement between corresponding attributes. Furthermore, a hyperplane that separates the training data well can be shown to generalize well to unseen data with the same statistical properties.

Now, you might be asking how could this be done if the training data is inconsistently labeled. After all, you cannot have the same example on both sides of the separating hyperplane. That's where the soft margin idea comes in: the quadratic optimization program that finds the optimal separating hyperplane can be cleverly modified to "give up" on a fraction of the training examples that cannot be classified correctly.

With this crucial improvement, support vector machines became really practical, while the core ideas have had huge influence in the development of further learning algorithms for an ever wider range of tasks.

Congratulations to Corinna (and Vladimir) on the well-deserved award.

Sony Ericsson- Secret codes

All these codes are collected from different sources in the internet. I have tested only some of them. Some of these may not work on all models. So, please try at your own risk.

Ericsson Secret Menu : -> * <- <- * <- * -> means Right arrow key
<- means Left arrow key [Displays phone model, software information, IMEI no:, config info, sim-lock status, Clock, total call duration & text labels. Also allows to test your phones services and hardware (Display, LED/illumination, camera, Flash LED, keypad, speaker, microphone, earphone, radio & vibrator) IMEI no: : *#06# Lock status : <- * * <- Shortcut to last dialed no:s : 0# Reset default language ( English) : <- 0000 ->

{If you change the language to some other language that you cannot understand, just use this code to reset default language ( English).}

SECRET CODES for SAMSUNG phones

All these codes are collected from different sources in the internet. I have tested only some of them. Some of these may not work on all models. So, please try at your own risk.

Software version : *#9999#

IMEI number : *#06#

Serial number : *#0001#

Memory capacity : *#9998*246#

Debug screen : *#9998*324# or *#8999*324#

LCD kontrast : *#9998*523#

Vibration test : *#9998*842# or *#8999*842#

Ringtone & alarm test : *#9998*289# or *#8999*289#

Smiley : *#9125#

Software version : *#0837#

Display contrast : *#0523# or *#8999*523#

Battery information : *#0228# or *#8999*228#

Memory capacity : *#8999*636#

SIM card info : *#8999*778#

Date & alarm clock : *#8999*782#

Display during warning: *#8999*786#

Hardware version : *#8999*837#

Network info : *#8999*638#

Show Received channel number & received intensity : *#8999*9266#

Software Version : *#1111#

Firmware Version : *#1234#

Hardware Version : *#2222#

All Versions : *#8999*8376263#

Test Menu : *#8999*8378#

GPSR Tool : *#4777*8665#

LCD Brightness : *#8999*523#

Error LOG Menu : *#8999*377#

EEP Menu : *#8999*327#

Debug Mode : *#8999*667#

Phone Model {Wap} : *#92782#

JAVA Mode : #*5737425#

Call List : *#2255#

Bluetooth MAC Adress : *#232337#

Java Version : *#5282837#

Secret codes for LG phones

All these codes are collected from different sources in the internet. I have tested only some of them. Some of these may not work on all models. So, please try at your own risk.

Test mode : 2945#*#

Secret menu : 2945*#01*#

IMEI no: : *#06#

IMEI & SW : *#07#

Software version : *8375#

Recount checksum : *6861#

Factory test : #PWR 668

Simlock menu : 1945#*5101#

Simlock menu : 2945#*5101#

Simlock menu : 2945#*70001#

Simlock menu : 2947#*



LG-U81XX SPECIAL CODES

Code to read phone version without SIM : 277634#*# or 47328545454#

Code to reset phone without SIM : 277634#*# or 47328545454#

Code to enter UNLOCK MENU wit SIM : 2945#*88110#

Test Menu 8330 : 637664#*#

Test Menu 8180 V10a : 49857465454#

Test Menu 8180 V11a : 492662464663#

Test Menu 8130-8138 : 47328545454#

Test Menu 8110-8120 : 277634#*#

Secret codes for Nokia

All these codes are collected from different sources in the internet. I have tested only some of them. Some of these may not work on all models. So, please try at your own risk.

IMEI no: : *#06#

Reset to factory settings : *#7780#

Clear the LCD display (operator logo) : *#67705646#

Bluetooth device address : *#2820#

Sim clock status : *#746025625#

Default Security Code : 12345

On Enhanced Full Rate Codec : *3370#

Off Enhanced Full Rate Codec : *#3370#

On Half Rate Codec. : *4720#

Off Half Rate Codec : *#4720#

Software Version : *#0000# or *#9999#

Display the MAC address of the WLAN adapter : *#62209526#
(Available only in newer models that support WLAN like N80)

Lock Status of ur Phone : #pw+1234567890+1#

Lock Status of ur SIM : #pw+1234567890+4#

Security Code of ur Phone : *#2640#

Game Score & Timer: *#73#




Delete the contents and code of wallet : *#3925538#

Master Code generated from IMEI : 1234567890

Lifetimer : *#92702689#

Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+1

Network lock status: #pw+1234567890+2

Provider lock status: #pw+1234567890+3

SimCard lock status: #pw+1234567890+4

Reset security code : *#7328748263373738#

Enjoy dudes..

Secret codes for MOTOROLA phones

All these codes are collected from different sources in the internet. I have tested only some of them. Some of these may not work on all models. So, please try at your own risk.

IMEI number : *#06#

Lock keys : *7 (Press together)

Note : [] (pause) means the * key held in until box appears.

Select phone line : [] [] [] 0 0 8 [] 1 []
(use this 2 write things below the service provider name)

Add phonebook 2 main menu: [] [] [] 1 0 5 [] 1 []

Add messages 2 main menu : [] [] [] 1 0 7 [] 1 []

Copy SIM memory (phonebook menu) : [] [] [] 1 0 8 [] 1 []

Eng Field options : [] [] [] 1 1 3 [] 1 []

Frequency of search menu - Slow : [] [] [] 1 0 1 [] 1 []

Frequency of search menu - Medium : [] [] [] 1 0 2 [] 1 []

Frequency of search menu - Fast : [] [] [] 1 0 3 [] 1 []

Enable EFR (Enhanced Full Rate Codec) : [] [] [] 1 1 9 [] 1 []

Function : [] [] [] # # # [] 1 []


Change pin : [] [] [] 0 0 4 [] 1 []

Unblocking using the PUK code : [] [] [] 0 0 5 [] 1 []


To deactivate any code, change the last no: to '0' (zero).
eg:- To deactivate the code [] [] [] 1 1 9 [] 1 [], type [] [] [] 1 1 9 [] 0 []



Enginnering mode : Enter menu & press 048263* quickly.

To change GSM frequencies to 900/1800 in this menu :
Under "Opcode", enter the foll:

10*0*3 for GSM 900

10*0*4 for GSM 1800

10*0*5 for GSM 1900

10*0*6 for dual band GSM 900/1800

10*0*7 for dual band GSM 850/1900

BSNL FREE DELIVERY REPORT

For some BSNL connections delivery report is chargeable(10ps).
Here is a simple trick for free delivery report.
While typing the msg, give an exclamation mark '!' in the beginning & then type the msg.
eg: !hi
Then the recipient will get it as 'hi' without '!'
Just try it. Its working well in 944- series.
Try on other series also.
May not work while forwarding msgs.
Type from the beginning itself, i mean a fresh msg.

Beyond Web-2.0

Posted by T.V Raman, Research Scientist

A little over a year ago, I gave a lightning talk at the W3C Technical Plenary in Boston where I looked forward to what came after Web-2.0. The key insight underlying that talk was that the Web was now mature enough for us to build Web technologies purely out of Web parts. Web-2.0 is a result of applying the Web to itself and is therefore better thought of as Web(Web()) or more concisely, Web².

Today, we can build new web artifacts out of existing ones by aggregation (web mashups) and by projection (filtered views), and publish the resulting artifacts on the web by assigning them a URL. This leads to the insight that this web that is to come potentially consists of the power-set of all web content. These ideas, and their logical consequences are detailed in article entitled Toward 2^W --- Beyond Web 2.0 in the February edition of the Communications Of The ACM. You can also find a slightly more extensive blog I posted here.

Web settings for BSNL gprs and internet.

Hi friends, for bsnl users- you can download web settings from the following link-
http://www.cellone.in/cellone_msp.htm
Select your state and get the settings directly on your phone.

If your phone does not support automatic configuration, Go to this link for manual settings-
http://www.cellone.in/ds.htm

Airtel gprs settings for china mobiles and others which require manual configuration.

AIRTEL LIVE

Access point- airtelfun.com
proxy- 100.1.200.99
port- 8080
Home page- live.airtelworld.com

keep user name and password as blank
No need to change other settings.

MOBILE OFFICE

Access point- airtelgprs.com
proxy- Disabled
Home page- wap.google.com (or any site you like)

keep user name and password as blank
No need to change other settings.

WORKS ALL OVER INDIA.