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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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Data, Algorithms, and People
One of the highlights of the recent Data 2.0 Summit was a panel featuring: Alexander Gray,
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Video of Strata 2012 Talk on Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork
The video of the presentation that Claire Hunsaker and I delivered on “Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork” at Strata 2012 is now available as part...
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Data 2.0 Summit
I’ll be participating in the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, April 3rd, and I hope to see some of you there. Last year, my colleague (and fellow LinkedIn data scientist)...
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Claudia Perlich: Tech Talk on Real-Time Bidding Optimization
Conventional wisdom holds that physical compliments are counter-productive as pick-up lines. Indeed, a dating site did some analysis showing a negative correlation...
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Making Love with Data: Avinash Kaushik
Just watch the presentation, which stole the show at Strata 2012. The written word cannot do justice to Avinash’s passion and his extraordinary ability to communicate...
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Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork
As per my previous post, I had a great time at the O’Reilly Strata Conference. It was a delight to participate in such a fantastic gathering of folks who work with...
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Strata 2012: Big Data is Bigger than Ever!
I spent the last three days at the O’Reilly Strata Conference, an assembly of two thousand people focused on data science and its applications. While I’m wary of...
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Enjoying Seattle
My excursion to Seattle was delightful, and I thought I’d share some details with readers. I spent most of Friday at the University of Washington, meeting with...
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LinkedIn @ CMU
As regular readers know, I have a deep affection for Carnegie Mellon University, where I did my graduate work. I’m happy to announce that two of my colleagues (both...
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Thoughts About Job Performance
This is the season of annual reviews, at least at LinkedIn. Performance reviews can be daunting for both employees and managers — at least everywhere that I’ve...
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Are You Hitched?
Let me preface this post by saying that this is my personal blog, and that my opinions here are not necessarily those of my employer. With that out of the way,...
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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
This post is last in a series summarizing the presentations at
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