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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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Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but I can already report that my experience confirms my previously...
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Got Hate Tweets?
I had the novel experience today of discovering that someone set up a Twitter account for the sole purpose of harassing me personally. I’m not sure what exactly...
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Got Hate Tweets?
I had the novel experience today of discovering that someone set up a Twitter account for the sole purpose of harassing me personally. I’m not sure what exactly...
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Wolfman vs. Googzilla
What’s not to love about a good fight? Check out David Talbot’s “Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off” in Technology Review. I don’t come away with a sense that I’ll...
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Wolfman vs. Googzilla
What’s not to love about a good fight? Check out David Talbot’s “Wolfram Alpha and Google Face Off” in Technology Review. I don’t come away with a sense that I’ll...
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A Topology of Search Concepts
Vegard Sandvold has an interesting post entitled “Help Me Design a Topology of Search Concepts” in which he visualizes assorted search approaches in a two-dimensional...
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A Topology of Search Concepts
Vegard Sandvold has an interesting post entitled “Help Me Design a Topology of Search Concepts” in which he visualizes assorted search approaches in a two-dimensional...
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SIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows: $695 for the main three...
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SIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows: $695 for the main three...
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Conferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access...
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Conferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access...
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Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
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Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
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Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally...
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Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally...
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Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...
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Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...
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