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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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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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Slides from Enterprise Search Summit Keynotes
Here are the slides from Marti Hearst’s and Peter Morville’s keynote presentations at the Enterprise Search Summit: Designing Search For Humans Search & Discovery...
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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...