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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Guided Exploration: Faceted Search, Backwards
Information Scent In the early 1990s, PARC researchers Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card developed the theory of information scent (more generally, information foraging)...
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Next Play!
Every year brings its own adventures, but for me 2011 will be a tough act to follow. A year ago, I’d just started
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HCIR 2011: Now on YouTube!
The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), held on October 20th at Google’s main campus in Mountain View, California...
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Jim Adler: The Accidental Chief Privacy Officer
Privacy is the third rail of the cloud. On one hand, the ease of sharing information and the power of analytics have produced extraordinary value for consumers,...
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Slides and Summaries
I’ve posted slides and summaries for all ten CIKM 2011 Industry Event presentations: Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research): Why Recall Matters John Giannandrea...
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ilya Segalovich on Improving Search Quality at Yandex
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Vanja Josifovski on Toward Deep Understanding of User Behavior on the Web
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ed Chi on Model-Driven Research in Social Computing
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: David Hawking on Search Problems and Solutions in Higher Education
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Ben Greene on Large Memory Computers for In-Memory Enterprise Applications
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Chavdar Botev on Databus: A System for Timeline-Consistent Low-Latency Change Capture
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Khalid Al-Kofahi on Combining Advanced Search Technology and Human Expertise in Legal Research
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Jeff Hammerbacher on Experiences Evolving a New Analytical Platform
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: John Giannandrea on Freebase
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CIKM 2011 Industry Event: Stephen Robertson on Why Recall Matters
On October 27th, I had the pleasure to chair the CIKM 2011 Industry Event with former Endeca colleague Tony Russell-Rose. It is my pleasure to report that the program...
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Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: Strata NY Panel on the State of Structured Search
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at Strata New York 2011 on Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: the State of Structured Search. The...
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Interview in Forbes: What is a Data Scientist?
Dan Woods has been interviewing a variety of folks to answer the question: “What is a data scientist?“, and I had the honor to participate in his series. Here is...
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RecSys 2011 Tutorial: Recommendations as a Conversation with the User
Last week, I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Given my passion for HCIR and...
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