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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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Something Different from Google New York
Earlier this week, I mentioned that my colleagues here at Google New York were working cool stuff. Today some of them officially blogged about it! Check out today’s...
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Peter Morville
This morning’s Enterprise Search Summit keynote was by Peter Morville, who has written a number of best-selling books about information architecture. I’ve known...
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Marti Hearst
The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing...
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Celebrating Six Months at Google New York
Today I celebrate six months of working at Google. I’m having a great time, and I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about my experience thus far. First, a...
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TunkRank Scores Added to FluidDB
For those keeping track of TunkRank, I encourage you to check out FluidDB, which just added TunkRank scores to its feature set. That lets you do cool things like...
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Google
I wish I could take even a gram of credit for this! I’m really proud of my colleagues for rolling out this new design that encourages and facilitates exploratory...
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Thoughts About Online Reputation
Sorry for the long delay between posts. Fortunately the blogosphere has been providing ample reading material about the saga of the lost iPhone and the war of words...
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Qui, Quae, Quora
A friend of mine at Quora invited me into their private beta a couple of weeks ago, and by now I suspect that many of you are using it–especially since I’ve somehow...
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Google Follow Finder
I know there’s lots of interesting stuff coming out at the Chirp Twitter developer conference this week, and I’m still catching up on it all. But I am happy to...
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Deadline to Register for HCIR Challenge
If you are interested in participating in the HCIR Challenge, please let me know as soon as possible–and in any case by April 30th. The New York Times and the LDC...
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HCIR 2010: An Update
I hope a number of you are planning to participate in the HCIR 2010 workshop! Here is a quick update: Program Committee chair Rob Capra has assembled a program...
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Go TunkRank!
I haven’t talked much about TunkRank in the past months, largely because Jason Adams, who stepped up to the TunkRank Implementation Challenge last year, has been...
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Build Your Own NYT Linked Data Application
Regular readers may recall hearing about the New York Times Annotated Corpus (which is the basis for the HCIR Challenge), and decision to publish their tags as Linked...
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Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization
Dinesh Vadhia, CEO and founder of “item search” company Xyggy, has been an active member of the Noisy Community for at least a year, and it is with pleasure that...
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Get Unvarnished!
Earlier this week, I read about Unvarnished on TechCrunch and was extremely curious about this “Yelp for LinkedIn” making a bold play in the online reputation space...
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CFP: HCIR 2010
The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference in New Brunswick...
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Want a Quora Invite?
I have 10 invites for Quora, a social search site launched earlier this year by a bunch of ex-Facebookers (including former CTO Adam D
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The Evolution of Social Search
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to attend the New York Semantic Web Meetup, which featured three excellent presentations. I’ll confess that I primarily...
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