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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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SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Technical Sessions
On the second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference, I did start shuttling between sessions to attend particular talks. In the morning session, I attended three talks...
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SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Keynote
The second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference kicked off with a keynote by TREC pioneer Donna Harman entitled “Is the Cranfield Paradigm Outdated?”. If you are at...
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Posters
The first day of SIGIR 2010 ended with a monster poster session–over 100 posters to see in 2 hours in a hall without air conditioning! I managed to see a handful...
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Technical Sessions
I’ve always felt that parallel conference sessions are designed to optimize for anticipated regret, and SIGIR 2010 is no exception. I decided that I’d try to attend...
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote
As promised, here are some highlights of the SIGIR 2010 conference thus far. Also check out the tweet stream with hash tag #sigir2010. I arrived here on Monday,...
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Off to Geneva for SIGIR
I’m flying to Geneva tonight to attend SIGIR. Hope to see some of you there! I’ll be back in a week and will post highlights and personal reactions.
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The War on Attention Poverty: Measuring Twitter Authority
I gave this presentation today at AT&T Labs, hosted by Stephen North of Graphviz fame.
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Recruiting and a Lesson in Attention Scarcity
Several people have asked me recently for advice on how to recruit for their tech startups. I’ve responded by digging out the following email that someone emailed...
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Paul Adams
This presentation by Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, has been making the rounds in the blogosphere. It’s long (over 200 slides!) but well...
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Beyond Social Currency
A research study I like enough to have blogged about it a few times is Princeton sociologist
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SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010
I’m looking forward to attending SIGIR 2010 in a few weeks and particularly to the SimInt 2010 Workshop on the Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval...
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Gridworks and Needlebase
One of the big challenges of working with heterogeneous data is curating it. Below are introductions to two tools for doing do: Gridworks, developed by David Huynh...
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Why Can
Prediction markets were all the rage a few years ago, two of the most notable being the Iowa Electronic Market forecasting electoral results and the now defunct...
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Are Links A Distraction?
Eric Andersen called my attention to a post by Nick Carr entitled “Experiments in delinkification“, in which Carr argues that links embedded in text are distracting...
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HCIR 2010 Submission Deadlines Approaching
Just a reminder to all of you HCIR people out there that the submission deadline for the HCIR 2010 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
The other day, I received a surprise package in the mail: a copy of IBM researchers David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov’s newly published lecture on “Estimating the Query...
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Elastic Lists for Faceted Search
If you like faceted search and are interested in design patterns for it, I encourage you to check out Moritz Stefaner’s work on elastic lists. Here is his description...
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People You May Know
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...
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The Google Job Experiment
This is just so brilliant that I had to post it here. I’ve blogged in the past about alerting spam, but this guy took the idea to a new level, with great return...
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