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SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Technical Sessions
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SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Technical Sessions

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...

SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Keynote
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SIGIR 2010: Day 2 Keynote

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of the SIGIR 2010 conference kicked off with a keynote by TREC pioneer Donna Harman entitled “Is the Cranfield Paradigm Outdated?”.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...

SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Posters
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Posters

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...

SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Technical Sessions
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Technical Sessions

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...

SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote
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SIGIR 2010: Day 1 Keynote

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,...

New Paper:  Popularity is Everything
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New Paper: Popularity is Everything

Another new paper announcement:  Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks, which will appear next month...

Off to Geneva for SIGIR
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Off to Geneva for SIGIR

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.

Facebook Movie Preview
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Facebook Movie Preview

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...

Arxiv Paper:  Heapable Sequences and Subsequences
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Arxiv Paper: Heapable Sequences and Subsequences

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...

The War on Attention Poverty: Measuring Twitter Authority
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The War on Attention Poverty: Measuring Twitter Authority

I gave this presentation today at AT&T Labs, hosted by Stephen North of Graphviz fame.

Recruiting and a Lesson in Attention Scarcity
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Recruiting and a Lesson in Attention Scarcity

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...

Paul Adams
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Paul Adams

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...

Beyond Social Currency
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Beyond Social Currency

A research study I like enough to have blogged about it a few times is Princeton sociologist

(n)On Vacation
From My Biased Coin

(n)On Vacation

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...

SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010
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SIGIR 2010 and SimInt 2010

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...

Colocating Conferences -- What Will It Take?
From My Biased Coin

Colocating Conferences -- What Will It Take?

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...

Gridworks and Needlebase
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Gridworks and Needlebase

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...

ISIT Day 2 (2010)
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ISIT Day 2 (2010)

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...

Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)
From My Biased Coin

Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)

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...

"Area Dean" : What's That Mean
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"Area Dean" : What's That Mean

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...
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