• The Heat in SharePoint Semantics: January 20 – January 27

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:59:36
    As always, SharePoint Semantics has delivered many posts that are vitally important to both SharePoint end users and search enthusiasts alike. The first post that I would like to share with you is entitled “SharePoint Joel Lists Seven Actions to Take Before Calling Microsoft Support.” This post shares helpful hints on how to solve your [...]

  • Windows 8 Is on the Way, so is SharePoint 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:58:08
    During the entire Windows Vista fiasco, Microsoft kept a team of developers locked away working on Windows 8. Brief glimpses were released in the summer of 2011 and reception has, so far, been positive. Along with Windows 8, Microsoft has been working on SharePoint 2012. While expectations for Windows 8 are high, SharePoint professionals are [...]

  • Getting the Most out of a New SharePoint Deployment

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:14:08
    Christian Buckely of Axceler provides some insights on deploying a SharePoint system in your organization, namely what to avoid, for overall collaboration software success. In “Where Not to Begin with SharePoint,” Buckely advises to bypass automating Human Resources activities if you’re looking for big innovation. While automating expense reports or vacation requests is a good [...]

  • IBM Watson Fights Cancer in 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:07:23
    All Things D recently reported on IBM’s new super computer Watson in the article “Seven Questions With IBM’s Manoj Saxena About Watson and Cancer.”  According to the article, IBM is planning on using Watson as a reference tool to assist human physicians in the treatment of breast, lung and colon cancer. The write up provides [...]

  • Selecting the Right Enterprise Search System for Your Business

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:04:38
    Companies looking into enterprise solutions will likely be overwhelmed by the variety of options available and may not know the first place to start when considering which product is the right fit for their needs. Susanne Koch’s recent presentation “The Landscape of Enterprise Search” on Pandia.com highlights some of the recent trends in enterprise search [...]

  • Chomp Takes App Search to the Next Level

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:03:37
    As the app business is exploding in growth with over a billion app downloads a month a new service has been created by some of the Silicon Valley’s greatest minds and investors. The article, Chomp Leads in App Search During Move to ‘Appification’, on Infotech News, praises the young company for leading the masses in [...]

  • European Conference for PLM Innovation

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:02:34
    We read about the PLM Innovation 2012 Conference and got a bit excited about the news. The article lists confirmed speakers from a variety of industries from healthcare to automotives.  The topics are bound to provide some very innovative discussions. The program has   mix of keynotes and workshops and other educational events  that should broaden [...]

  • Search and Exogenous Complexity

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:01:21
    I am now using the phrase “exogenous complexity” to describe systems, methods, processes, and procedures which are likely to fail due to outside factors. This initial post focuses on indexing, but I will extend the concept to other content centric applications in the future. Disagree with me? Use the comments section of this blog, please. [...]

  • Chasing Revenue: Dreams into Dollars Redux

    Updated: 2012-01-31 01:03:11
    More than 20 years ago, I wrote an essay for Online Magazine, published at the time by Jeff Pemberton, a former New York Times executive. The title of the write up was “Dreams into Dollars.” The main point was that anyone involved in electronic information could see that eliminating the middle men (disintermediation) and near [...]

  • The China Market: Apple and Google

    Updated: 2012-01-30 23:04:10
    Quote to note: I read the Fast Company story “Apple Could Sell 40 Million iPhones In China…” The guts of the story is an estimate—probably crazy—that Apple will sell beaucoup iPhones in China. Here’s the snippet I jotted down in my paper notebook: Apple will seek out tie-ups with China Telecom and China Mobile to [...]

  • Discovering URLs through user feedback

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:28:02
    SIGN IN SIGN UP Discovering URLs through user feedback Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Xiao Bai Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain B . Barla Cambazoglu Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Flavio P . Junqueira Yahoo Research , Barcelona , Spain Published : in Proceeding CIKM 11 Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management ACM New York , NY USA 2011 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-4503-0717-8 doi 10.1145 2063576.2063592 2011 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 65 Downloads 12 Months 65 Citation Count : 0 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save to Binder Export : Formats BibTeX EndNote ACM Ref Upcoming : Conference CIKM'12 : Share : Tags experimentation performance relevance feedback

  • Massive Scale Data Mining for Education blog CACM Communications of the ACM

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:27:23
    Skip to Main Content acm.org Join ACM About Communications Alerts Feeds Sign In Search Term Communications Digital Library Home News Advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM other ACM resources , and from around the . Web Latest News News Archive Blogs About the Blogs BLOG CACM Blogroll Blogs Archive Opinion Articles Interviews Opinion Archive Browse by Subject Recent articles from Communications organized into categories that encompass the broad scope of . computing Artificial Intelligence Communications Networking Computer Applications Computer Systems Computers and Society Data Storage and Retrieval Education Entertainment Hardware Human-Computer Interaction Information Systems Legal Aspects Management Performance and Reliability Personal Computing Search Security Software

  • RecSys 2011 Tutorial Recommendations as a Conversation with the User

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:27:22
    : The Noisy Channel ABOUT DISCLOSURE Follow dtunkelang HCIR 2011 : We Have Arrived Interview in Forbes : What is a Data Scientist RecSys 2011 Tutorial : Recommendations as a Conversation with the User October 31st , 2011 2 Comments General Last week , I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems RecSys 2011 Given my passion for HCIR and my advocacy for transparency in recommender systems it shouldn’t surprise regular readers that I focused on both . Unfortunately the tutorial was not recorded , but I hope the slides above prove useful . I also encourage you to take a look at the other tutorials whose slides are posted on the conference . site If you enjoyed this post , make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed 2 responses so far 1

  • Improving quality of training data for learning to rank using click-through data

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:27:20
    SIGN IN SIGN UP Improving quality of training data for learning to rank using click-through data Full : Text PDF Buy this Article Authors : Jingfang Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Chuanliang Chen Beijing Normal University , Beijing , China Gu Xu Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Hang Li Microsoft Research Asia , Beijing , China Elbio Renato Torres Abib Microsoft , Redmond , WA , USA 2010 Article Bibliometrics Downloads 6 Weeks 15 Downloads 12 Months 82 Citation Count : 1 Published : in Proceeding WSDM 10 Proceedings of the third ACM international conference on Web search and data mining ACM New York , NY USA 2010 table of contents ISBN : 978-1-60558-889-6 doi 10.1145 1718487.1718509 Tools and Resources Buy this Article Request Permissions TOC : Service Email RSS Save

  • Partitioning default effects Why people choose not to choose Yahoo Research

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  • Strata New York 2011 Entities Relationships and Semantics the State of Structured Search YouTube

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:26:29
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  • Justin Zobel

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:26:16
    Justin Zobel Professor and Head , Department of Computing and Information Systems the University of Melbourne Mail : Department of Computer Science Software Engineering , University of Melbourne , Parkville 3010, Australia . Office : Computing Information Systems , Level 4, ICT Building Phone : 61 3 8344 1505, email : jzobel at . unimelb.edu.au Some current activities Editor-in-Chief Asia Australasia International Journal of Information Retrieval Associate editor , ACM Transactions on Information Systems Associate editor , Information Processing Retrieval Associate editor , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Theme leader , bioinformatics , VLSCI Lecturer , Research Methods semester 2 2011. A recent keynote at CIKM 2011 ACM Conference on Information Knowledge Management

  • Haystack Blog CIKM 2011 Keynote User Interfaces that Entice People to Manage Better Information

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:26:13
    : Haystack Blog MIT CSAIL Research Group Website CIKM 2011 Keynote : User Interfaces that Entice People to Manage Better Information Filed under : News PIM Search Social Computing User Interfaces Visualization by David Karger on Tuesday , 25 October 2011 1 Comment Tags : CSAIL Today I gave a keynote at CIKM 2011 I argued that in addition to all our work on tools the process information for users , we should also be looking at tools that make people better able to apply their innate information processing talents for themselves . I talked about the following tools that reflext that idea , all of which are available for you to try out on the : web List.it a note-taking tool for information scraps capture Nb for social annotation discussion of class lecture notes Feedme for social content

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  • Did Web Search kill Artificial Intelligence?

    Updated: 2012-01-15 18:42:53
    The most commonly referenced definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is probably the Turing Test which avoids the tricky questions like 'what is intelligence' or 'what does it mean to think' and replaces them simply by the test of recognizing an...

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