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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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On the second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference, I did start shuttling between sessions to attend particular talks. In the morning session, I attended three talks...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 23, 2010 at 06:49 AM
The second day of the SIGIR 2010 conference kicked off with a keynote by TREC pioneer Donna Harman entitled “Is the Cranfield Paradigm Outdated?”. If you are at...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM
The first day of SIGIR 2010 ended with a monster poster session–over 100 posters to see in 2 hours in a hall without air conditioning! I managed to see a handful...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 21, 2010 at 07:19 AM
I’ve always felt that parallel conference sessions are designed to optimize for anticipated regret, and SIGIR 2010 is no exception. I decided that I’d try to attend...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 21, 2010 at 07:08 AM
As promised, here are some highlights of the SIGIR 2010 conference thus far. Also check out the tweet stream with hash tag #sigir2010. I arrived here on Monday,...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 21, 2010 at 06:44 AM
Another new paper announcement: Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks, which will appear next month...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 19, 2010 at 12:29 PM
I’m flying to Geneva tonight to attend SIGIR. Hope to see some of you there! I’ll be back in a week and will post highlights and personal reactions.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM
It's nice to see Harvard finally getting some recognition in the mainstream media, with the upcoming Facebook/Zuckerburg movie the Social Network (based on BenThe...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 16, 2010 at 12:48 PM
I haven't been blogging much; consider me on extended vacation. It's helping me prepare for giving up the blog soonish. But I thought I'd mention our newly posted...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM
I gave this presentation today at AT&T Labs, hosted by Stephen North of Graphviz fame.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 14, 2010 at 03:13 AM
Several people have asked me recently for advice on how to recruit for their tech startups. I’ve responded by digging out the following email that someone emailed...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 12, 2010 at 12:59 AM
This presentation by Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, has been making the rounds in the blogosphere. It’s long (over 200 slides!) but well...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 8, 2010 at 04:29 AM
A research study I like enough to have blogged about it a few times is Princeton sociologistDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 6, 2010 at 08:52 PM
Despite appearance, the blog hasn't yet disappeared. I was on family vacation somewhere tropical. Even though I was on vacation, it didn't always feel like vacation...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 4, 2010 at 11:48 PM
I’m looking forward to attending SIGIR 2010 in a few weeks and particularly to the SimInt 2010 Workshop on the Automated Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 28, 2010 at 12:21 AM
In the ongoing future of STOC debate, one possibility that seems to have significant support is that we should do more colocation of conferences. (See Suresh's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 21, 2010 at 02:46 PM
One of the big challenges of working with heterogeneous data is curating it. Below are introductions to two tools for doing do: Gridworks, developed by David Huynh...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 20, 2010 at 09:33 AM
First, finishing up day 1, the banquet was, as expected, a fairly nondescript affair involving chicken of some sort, which I happily got to spend with a group of...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 19, 2010 at 05:43 PM
I'm writing this from ISIT (Int'l Symposium on Inf. Theory) in Austin. In fact, I'm sitting in on the session on for "Coding for Memories", a topic I did someweb...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 17, 2010 at 11:03 PM
In a few weeks, I "officially" take on my new job as "Area Dean" (read, "Chair") of CS. What will in entail?Formally, there appear to be a number of responsibilities...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM