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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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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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HCIR 2011: We Have Arrived!
If you followed the #hcir2011 tweet stream, then you already know what I have to say: the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
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Keeping It Professional: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation at LinkedIn
Last week, I delivered the following presentation at the CMU Intelligence Seminar: I had a great audience, including the department head! Of course that meant...
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Attention CMU Students!
As many of you know, I’m a proud alumnus of the CMU School of Computer Science
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Dream. Fit. Passion.
A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have...
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Retiring a Great Interview Problem
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code. The tech press sporadically publishes “best”...
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Upcoming Information Retrieval Conferences
I hope everyone who attended the recent SIGIR 2011 in Beijing had an excellent experience. I didn’t manage to make it to that side of the globe myself, but I’m...
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Attention vs. Privacy
A major feature of the recently released Google+ is Circles, which allows you to “share relevant content with the right people, and follow content posted by people...
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