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How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
From My Biased Coin

How's that New Job Treating You? Edition

I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended.  That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1.  Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...

RATS roundup
From My Biased Coin

RATS roundup

I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS.  There was a brief introduction by Chris...

MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
From My Biased Coin

MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution

Wow.  After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...

Various Quick Pointers
From My Biased Coin

Various Quick Pointers

While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...

Exploring Nuggetize
From The Noisy Channel

Exploring Nuggetize

I’ve been exchanging emails with Dhiti co-founder Bharath Mohan about Nuggetize, an intriguing interface that surfaces “nuggets” from a site to reduce the user’s...

In Need of a Few Bad Papers
From My Biased Coin

In Need of a Few Bad Papers

For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...

STOC tutorial online
From My Biased Coin

STOC tutorial online

Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online.  You can find them here.

Monkey Business
From My Biased Coin

Monkey Business

I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...

Other UK Adventures
From My Biased Coin

Other UK Adventures

While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...

Papers to Teach This Year
From My Biased Coin

Papers to Teach This Year

This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...

Back from Travels
From My Biased Coin

Back from Travels

The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel.  For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...

Taking Blekko out for a Spin
From The Noisy Channel

Taking Blekko out for a Spin

If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched...

HCIR 2010 Accepted Papers
From The Noisy Channel

HCIR 2010 Accepted Papers

The 4th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) is coming up on August 22 in New Brunswick, NJ, taking place immediately after...

Overcoming Spammers in Twitter
From The Noisy Channel

Overcoming Spammers in Twitter

As I blogged a few months ago, University of Oviedo professor Daniel Gayo-Avello published a research paper entitled “Nepotistic Relationships in Twitter and their...

Questions. But Why?
From The Noisy Channel

Questions. But Why?

Yahoo! Answers and Answers.com have been around since 2005. But community question answering (as distinct from question answering using natural language processing)...

The 2050 Calculator
From My Biased Coin

The 2050 Calculator

As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...

SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Afternoon Sessions
From The Noisy Channel

SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Afternoon Sessions

While the SIGIR 2010 Industry Track keynotes had the highest-profile speakers, the rest of the day assembled an impressive line-up: The new frontiers of Web search...

Teaching Time Conflicts
From My Biased Coin

Teaching Time Conflicts

As the semester ominously approaches, we've noticed that we're facing a number of class time-slot collisions in computer science.This is unsurprising.  Until recently...

SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Keynotes
From The Noisy Channel

SIGIR 2010: Day 3 Industry Track Keynotes

When I organized the SIGIR 2009 Industry Track last year, my goal was to meet the standard set by the CIKM 2008 Industry Event: a compelling set of presentations...

"I Understood Your Talk"
From My Biased Coin

"I Understood Your Talk"

Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that.  I take it as a compliment (although I don't think...
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