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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 …
From The Noisy Channel
Build Your Own NYT Linked Data Application
Regular readers may recall hearing about the New York Times Annotated Corpus (which is the basis for the HCIR Challenge), and decision to publish their tags as Linked...
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60-40 papers
A recent paper I worked on was a 60-40 paper. That's what I call it when one of the authors does noticeably more of the work. Really, it could be a 70-30 paper...
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Sexual Harassment Policies (Yale v. Harvard)
My brother, in what I assume is a blatant attempt to be mentioned in this blog (Hi Steve!!!), sent me a link to the following article about a new rule (or, as...
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NSF Review Issues
My understanding is that the turnaround time on NSF decisions should be approximately 6 months. (See, for instance, their own diagram of the review process.) ...
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Guest Post: Information Retrieval Using a Bayesian Model of Learning and Generalization
Dinesh Vadhia, CEO and founder of “item search” company Xyggy, has been an active member of the Noisy Community for at least a year, and it is with pleasure that...
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Energy Sustainability
I spent an entertaining hour this afternoon listening to David MacKay of Cambridge (UK) give a talk about the Future of Energy here at Harvard. I've mentionedAmazon...
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Get Unvarnished!
Earlier this week, I read about Unvarnished on TechCrunch and was extremely curious about this “Yelp for LinkedIn” making a bold play in the online reputation space...
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Two Inspiring Posts
Inspiring me to blog, that is....Matt blogs about the psychology of program committees. It's one of those things that would be funny except that it's true. So...
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CFP: HCIR 2010
The 4th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) will be held in conjunction with the IIiX 2010 conference in New Brunswick...
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Want a Quora Invite?
I have 10 invites for Quora, a social search site launched earlier this year by a bunch of ex-Facebookers (including former CTO Adam D
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The Evolution of Social Search
Earlier this week, I had the good fortune to attend the New York Semantic Web Meetup, which featured three excellent presentations. I’ll confess that I primarily...
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New Toys from Hunch
I’ve been following Hunch for a while, and my impression has evolved from the
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Reading a Research Paper
In the category of "waste nothing", here's a handout I wrote way back when (over a decade ago) that I use for my standard graduate seminar class on How to Read. ...
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Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network?
Mathew Ingram posted an interview with Craig Newmark (the Craig of craigslist fame) in which the latter argued that what the web needs is a “distributed trust network”...
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Are Ashton Kutcher and Puff Daddy the Most Influential Twitter Users?
In a post on ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez summarizes “Measuring User In?uence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy“, a recent research paper by Meeyoung Cha, Hamed...
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Google-Viacom Documents
I don't blog about my work as an expert witness, but for those who are interested in such things, since I (currently) have nothing to do with the case, I can happily...
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More on SIGCOMM
The first round of SIGCOMM is pretty much done. (As usual, many reviews are still out, though the deadline has passed.) I had mentioned earlier that my firstby...
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Kindle Textbooks
I've had a couple of people point out to me that Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis (my book) is now available on Kindle...
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Is Spontaneity Overrated?
It used to be a surprise when people remembered our birthdays, but in the twenty-first century Facebook ensures that we will
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