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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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Daniel Tunkelang: Machine Learning as a Metaphor
Last week, I attended the QCon international software development conference in San Francisco, where I had the honor to chair a track on Applied Machine Learning...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Social Search in a Professional Context
Today, I had the honor of presenting a keynote at the Workshop on Data-driven User Behavioral Modeling and Mining from Social Media, taking place as part of the...
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Daniel Tunkelang: You're the Boss of You
Students of organizational behavior know that bad managers are a key reason employees quit. Good companies internalize this research and focus on improving their...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Executives Need Press Training Too
At all the companies where I've worked, there's a clear policy governing how employees interact with the press. And with good reason: statements from employees,...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Optimize for the Short Snout
In 2004, Chris Anderson wrote an article entitled "The Long Tail" popularizing the notion that, in online markets, the tail of the statistical distribution isPower...
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Daniel Tunkelang: What is a Thought Leader?
I have a confession to make.When I hear the term "thought leader", I cringe. Perhaps you also imagine a blowhard who pontificates about topics without any expertise...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Software Patents: A Tax on Innovation
New Zealand just abolished software patents. Good on ya, mates!And, a few weeks ago, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report entitledIntellectual...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Remembering Gene
Gene Golovchinsky died last week. He had just turned 48, far too young to be taken from us. I was fortunate to have seen him recently -- I had dinner with him at...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search: What's Cooking in the Lab
Every year, top information retrieval researchers from around the world gather for the SIGIR conference, organized by the Association of Computing Machinery. It's...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Find and be Found: Information Retrieval at LinkedIn
xShakti Sinha and I had the honor to present our work on LinkedIn search at the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference in Dublin, Ireland. SIGIR is the world's top conference...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search Relevance 101
If you're an engineer who lives and breathes search relevance, then this post isn't for you. Hopefully you're attending SIGIR in Dublin later this month, where ...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Think Outside the Black Box
When you use a search engine, chances are that you spend most of your time either narrowing or broadening. Narrowing -- which begins as soon as you start entering...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Search as Communication: A Personal Journey
When I was invited to give a talk at Etsy's Code as Craft series, I decided to try something different. After all, Etsy is a marketplace of unique, hand-made items...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Enterprise Search: Getting There From Here
This morning, I had the privilege to deliver the keynote address at the Enterprise Search Summit in New York.My title, "Enterprise Search: How Do We Get There From...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Big Data, We Have A Communication Problem
Earlier this week I had the pleasure to participate in the TTI/Vanguard Conference on Ginormous Systems. Not just Big Data, but Ginormous Data! I'd never heardGordon...
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Daniel Tunkelang: The Cold Start Problem
People who bought this item also bought...If you've ever shopped online, then you're familiar with recommendations that rely on collaborative filtering, predicting...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Things I Carry: A Little Cache
When I was asked what I carry with me all the time, my first reaction was that I don't take anything with me. Well, nothing other than my smartphone. All I carry...
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Daniel Tunkelang: [In]formation Retrieval: Search at LinkedIn
Shakti Sinha and I had the pleasure of talking about LinkedIn's search technology to the Bay Area Search Meetup. We're grateful to Brian Johnson and his eBay colleagues...
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Daniel Tunkelang: Secrecy Doesn't Scale
A little bit of math explains why.Consider a model where each individual in an organization of n people leaks a particular piece of sensitive information withless...
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