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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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HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction
On Friday, I had the privilege of seeing just how much the annual Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval has grown up since I conceived it in the summer...
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Google Experimenting With Social Search
Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features...
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Books! Books! Books!
When my daughter was born almost two years ago, I wondered if she’d grow up reading books. After all, I do most of my reading online, and increasingly find myself...
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Who Will Buy?
Recent years have witnessed dramatic changes in our price sensitivities in every genre of digital (or digitizable) content, and I’m curious (sometimes morbidly...
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Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010)
I’m proud to announce that Eugene Agichtein, Marti Hearst, and Ian Soboroff have invited me to help organize the upcoming Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM...
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Innovation at Huffington Post: Data-Driven Headlines
The other day, I was suggesting to one of my colleagues that Endeca’s software could help authors write better (translate, more SEO-friendly) headlines. The details...
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Go Shopping, Be Social
If you’re into search startups, then today’s a great day to check out what a couple of them are up to.
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Structured Search Is On The Table
Freebase. Wolfram Alpha. Google Squared. I hesitate to declare a trend, but there does seem to be a growing interest in more structured approaches to information...
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Google Is Sharpening Its Squares
As some of you may remember, I’m excited about Google Squared, a project I see as a great first step toward exploratory search at a web scale. Yes, I know that...
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Google Meets The Press
I enjoyed my proverbial fifteen seconds of fame on CNN yesterday, and I even enjoyed lunch at the New York Times cafeteria today. But for a prime-time media show...
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HCIR 2009 Proceedings Now Available
The HCIR 2009 proceedings are now available on the workshop web site. We’re planning to
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