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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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Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network?
Mathew Ingram posted an interview with Craig Newmark (the Craig of craigslist fame) in which the latter argued that what the web needs is a “distributed trust network”...
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Are Ashton Kutcher and Puff Daddy the Most Influential Twitter Users?
In a post on ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez summarizes “Measuring User In?uence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy“, a recent research paper by Meeyoung Cha, Hamed...
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Is Spontaneity Overrated?
It used to be a surprise when people remembered our birthdays, but in the twenty-first century Facebook ensures that we will
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Google and Transparency
Let me preface this post with a clear disclaimer: I work at Google, but the views I express on this blog are my own personal views. Last week, Google head of webspam...
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Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict query difficulty and performance–performance in the information...
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HCIR 2010: A Pre-Announcement
We’re gearing up to officially announce the HCIR 2010 workshop, but I wanted to give folks here a heads up, as well as to put out a call for a volunteer. The Fourth...
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You Can
Lately, I’ve been musing about the Herb Simon quote that launched–or at least popularized–the concepts of information overload and attention economics: in an information...
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Holding Back the Rise of the Machines?
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of my favorite examples of leveraging the internet for innovation: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires...
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Guest Demo: Eric Iverson
I’m back from vacation, and still digging my way out of everything that’s piled up while I’ve been offline. While I catch up, I thought I’d share with you a demo...
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Vacation
Just letting readers know that I’ll be on vacation for the next week. If you are starved for reading materials, check out some of the blogs I read.
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WSDM 2010: Day 3
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today is the last day of
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WSDM 2010: Day 2
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the...
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WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
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WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
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Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Note: this post will also appear on BLOG@CACM. It is my pleasure to report on the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), a gathering of information...
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Blogging SSM 2010 and WSDM 2010
I’m delighted to report that I’ll be blogging about the Search and Social Media Workshop (SSM 2010) and the Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2010) for...
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Blogs I Read: Search Facets
A couple of years ago, I started The Noisy Channel as a personal blog. Since my then-employer Endeca didn’t have a corporate blog, I became the company’s ambassador...
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LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing...
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Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
The 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010) will be held on Wednesday, February 3rd at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, NY. It’s co-located...
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