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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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More of what has caught my attention lately:Laptops with Kinect sensors are coming. Worth paying attention to, gesturing in air to issue commands, a very different...
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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Security guru Bruce Schneier predicts "smart phones are going to become the primary platform of attack for cybercriminals"...
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Browsing behavior for web crawling
A recent paper out of Yahoo, "Discovering URLs through User Feedback" (ACM), describes the value from using what pages people browse to and click on (which is in...
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What mobile location data looks like to Google
A recent paper out of Google, "Extracting Patterns From Location History" (PDF), is interesting not only for confirming that Google is studying using location data...
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Even more of what has caught my attention recently:Spooky but cool research: "Electrical pulses to the brain and muscles ... activate and deactivate the insect's...
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More of what has caught my attention recently:The first Kindle was so ugly because Jeff Bezos so loved his BlackBerry ([1])"Sometimes it takes Bad Steve to bring...
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Some of what has caught my attention recently:"60 percent of Netflix views are a result of Netflix's personalized recommendations" and "35 percent of [Amazon] product...
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Blending machines and humans to get very high accuracy
A paper by six Googlers from the recent KDD 2011 conference, "Detecting Adversarial Advertisements in the Wild" (PDF) is a broadly useful example of how to succeed...
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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Netflix may have been forced to change its pricing by the movie studios. It appears the studios may have made streaming...
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Google and suggesting friends
A timely paper out of Google at the recent ICML 2011 conference, "Suggesting (More) Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph" (PDF), not only describes the technology...
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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Oldest example I could find of the "PC is dead" in the press, a New York Times article from 1992. If people keep[1]...
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Eli Pariser is wrong
In recent interviews and in his new book, "The Filter Bubble", Eli Pariser claims that personalization limits serendipity and discovery.For example, in one interview...
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Continuous profiling at Google
"Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers" (PDF) has some fascinating details on how Google does profiling and looks for performance...
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Taking small steps toward personalized search
Some very useful lessons in this work in a recent WSDM 2011 conference, "Personalizing Web Search using Long Term Browsing History" (PDF).First, they focused on...
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Some of what has caught my attention recently:Apple captured "a remarkable 50% value share of estimated Q1/11 handset industry operating profits among the top 8...
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The value of Google Maps directions logs
Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, "Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places" (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year...
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Resurgence of interest in personalized information
There has been a lot of news about personalization and recommendations of information in the last week.Google News launched additional implicit personalizationFindory...
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Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:Google tries again in social, this time focusing on the common trend of having sharing buttons...
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Personal navigation and re-finding
Jaime Teevan, Dan Liebling, and Gayathri Geetha from Microsoft Research had a fun paper at WSDM 2011, "Understanding and Predicting Personal Navigation", that focuses...
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