CS in daily life

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• Routing of packets in the Internet
• Planning a cheapest path from A to B via cars, public transport
• Compression (zip, divx, mp3)
• Virus scan (speed is important, Aho-Corasick algorithm)
• Realistic graphics, physics for special effects in games/movies
• 23 and me
• Scheduling, time table planning (Frair Tuck and Mars missions)
• Data mining for recommendation systems (Amazon, Youtube)
• Face recognition in digital cameras
• Machine translation
• Searching the web
• Putting up relevant ads
• Search engines
• Recommendation engine
• Loan processing