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Bing Visual Search Beta
From The Noisy Channel

Bing Visual Search Beta


Is Bing Optimizing for the Short Snout?
From The Noisy Channel

Is Bing Optimizing for the Short Snout?


From Computational Complexity

Ambiguity

I recently heard or read the following phrases. former cop killer ideal compromiser even prime numbers have their uses In each case it was ambiguous...

Colleges, Newspapers
From My Biased Coin

Colleges, Newspapers

A colleague sent me this link to a Washington Post article, on how colleges are going to be "torn apart" like newspapers have been by the Internet. Dramatically...

Micro vs. Macro Information Retrieval
From The Noisy Channel

Micro vs. Macro Information Retrieval


Yahoo on Key Scientific Challenges in Search and Machine Learning
From The Noisy Channel

Yahoo on Key Scientific Challenges in Search and Machine Learning


From Computational Complexity

The Mystique of the Open Problem

The story goes that Andrew Wiles dreamt of proving Fermat's last theorem when he was a kid. No surprise since all of us math-loving kids dreamed of solving this...

The Ethics of Blogging
From The Noisy Channel

The Ethics of Blogging


The Endowment
From My Biased Coin

The Endowment

Here, here, here, and so on.

CIKM 2009 Accepted Papers
From The Noisy Channel

CIKM 2009 Accepted Papers


Research Labs "vs." Academia
From My Biased Coin

Research Labs "vs." Academia

Muthu points to a blog entry (by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research) on research labs vs. academia. It's a good read -- especially for graduate students thinking...

ESA 2009
From My Biased Coin

ESA 2009

ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a severe shortage of plug outlets...

ESA Talk and Paper
From My Biased Coin

ESA Talk and Paper

Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here's the paper, and here's...

Controversy at ESA
From My Biased Coin

Controversy at ESA

As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (consistent) way to get comments...

John Battelle:
From The Noisy Channel

John Battelle:


Not All Google Critics Are Bigots
From The Noisy Channel

Not All Google Critics Are Bigots


HCIR: Better Than Magic!
From The Noisy Channel

HCIR: Better Than Magic!


SODA list up
From My Biased Coin

SODA list up

As announced everywhere, the list of SODA papers is up.

Another Project to Measure Twitter Influence
From The Noisy Channel

Another Project to Measure Twitter Influence


Great Series of Posts on Medical Literature Search
From The Noisy Channel

Great Series of Posts on Medical Literature Search

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