• In the Future Marketing May Be Responsible for IT

    Updated: 2012-09-30 05:04:20
    The general consensus is that IT jobs are booming and it is a profitable field to specialize in, but according to ZDNet in the article, “Research: The Devalued Future of IT in a Marketing World.”  You really need to see the data visuals to understand what the article is discussing, but basically the models show [...]

  • Sparse Data Gathering Abundant Attention

    Updated: 2012-09-30 05:02:53
    Sparse data has been gaining some attention lately, according to the article titled, “It’s Called ‘Sparse Data,’ and It Could Be a Big Deal” on Government Computer News. Sparse data is information that comes from sensors or other non-IT devices, such as temperature or how often something is used. Although this may not seem very [...]

  • The Metaprocess Puzzle

    Updated: 2012-09-29 05:04:00
    BeyeNetwork suggests one reason metadata is not implemented comprehensively or well: “Lack of Metaprocess Information Impedes Ability to Collect Metadata.” Writer and database management expert Bill Inmon pins the lack of enterprise-wide metadata primarily on a lack of metaprocess information. Metaprocess covers high-level descriptive details about a process, like its name, the technology that houses [...]

  • Qihoo360 Emerges as Baidu Rival

    Updated: 2012-09-29 05:02:10
    It looks like Baidu may soon lose its crown as the uncontested Chinese search engine leader. Lately, its nemesis Qihoo360 has been gaining ground with their new engine. TechNewsWorld hosts a podcast that examines the rivalry, “Combatants Getting Down and Dirty in Chinese Search Wars.” In it, ECT News reporter David Vranicar interviews Tech In [...]

  • Predictive Search: Are You Ready?

    Updated: 2012-09-28 07:15:23
    We read “A New Google App gives You Local Information—Before You Ask for It.” The idea is that smart software knows where you are and what you probably will want to know. Years ago I heard Scott McNealy, the former Sun Microsystems CEO, describe a system in an automobile which would display the location of [...]

  • Quick Tips for Boosting Web Site Search Rankings

    Updated: 2012-09-28 05:11:33
    With the growing number of active Web sites, getting noticed online can be a challenge for small businesses. TheStar.com shares some insight on the topic and provides tips for improving a site’s search rankings. Jeff Quipp’s article, “Seven Tips to Improve Website Search Rankings,” starts off the list of tips with adding secure links to [...]

  • The Facebook Voter Experiment

    Updated: 2012-09-28 05:08:57
    Discover Magazine hosts in interesting read on the impact of information within social networks. The Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog post is titled “A 61-Million-Person Experiment on Facebook Shows How Ads and Friends Affect Our Voting Behaviour.” Blogger Ed Yong describes the huge experiment in which, on congressional election day 2010, Facebook worked with researcher [...]

  • Communicating the Value of Big Data

    Updated: 2012-09-28 05:06:06
    The IT world has successfully communicated the message that Big Data is valuable. It has been less successful in explaining how, exactly. Following its recent BI & Analytics Perspectives Conference, Computerworld realizes that “Finding the Business Value in Big Data is a Big Problem.” The IT pros gathered at the conference seem to agree that [...]

  • Data Analytics in Genetic Research

    Updated: 2012-09-28 05:04:51
    We’re pleased to see this excellent example of the use of analytics. ScienceDaily reveals, “Information Theory Helps Unravel DNA’s Genetic Code.” Specifically, scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi were working on one of today’s biggest biology challenges—predicting the distribution of coding and noncoding regions (exons and introns, respectively) in a previously unannotated [...]

  • IBM Content Navigator Demonstration

    Updated: 2012-09-27 14:50:42
    Short honk: Thanks to the reader who alerted us to a demonstration of IBM Content Navigator. The demo runs about six minutes and provides glimpses of “findability.” If you are an IBM follower, you might want to check out http://goo.gl/6i7hT. Stephen E Arnold, September 27, 2012 Sponsored by Augmentext

  • UniversalSearchProjectGroup

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  • TrustedUserGroup

    Updated: 2012-09-18 16:03:14
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  • Daniel Lemire Computer Scientist and Open Scholar

    Updated: 2012-09-13 18:43:49
    , MAIN PUBLICATIONS BLOG Daniel Lemire Data Warehousing and OLAP , Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering , Information Retrieval . Most recent papers Daniel Lemire , Owen Kaser , Eduardo Gutarra , Reordering Rows for Better Compression : Beyond the Lexicographic Order ACM Transactions on Database Systems 37 3 2012. Daniel Lemire , The universality of iterated hashing over variable-length strings Discrete Applied Mathematics 160 4-5 2012. Antonio Badia and Daniel Lemire , A Call to Arms : Revisiting Database Design SIGMOD Record 40 3 2011. Daniel Lemire and Owen Kaser , Reordering Columns for Smaller Indexes Information Sciences 181 12 2011. Recently cited papers Owen Kaser and Daniel Lemire , Tag-Cloud Drawing : Algorithms for Cloud Visualization Tagging and Metadata for Social

  • Terrier/Tweets11/TopicCategorisation

    Updated: 2012-09-11 16:02:52
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  • Are you Tracking MRR? - "Mean Reciprocal Rank" Trend Monitoring

    Updated: 2012-09-11 13:57:00
    Enterprise Search The business and technology of corporate search Home About Archives Subscribe Got OGP A Social Media Lesson for the Enterprise Main September 11, 2012 Are you Tracking MRR Mean Reciprocal Rank Trend Monitoring MRR is a simple numerical technique to monitor the overall relevancy performance of search engines over time . It is based on click-throughs in the search results , where a click on the top document is scored as 100 a click on the second document is 50 3rd document is 33 etc . These numbers are collected and averaged over units of . time The absolute value of MRR is not necessarily the important statistic because each site has different content , different classes of users , and different search technology . However , the trend of MRR over time can allow a site to

  • A Live Comparison of Methods for Personalized Article Recommendation at

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:42
    Careers HP Labs Technical Reports Contact HP News Research Research Tech Reports Worldwide Sites Open Innovation Downloads HP Labs 2011 Annual Report People Leadership People Jobs Awards Blogs About About Worldwide Sites Technical Reports HPL-2012-95R1 Please enable JavaScript to view Social Tagging Links . Technical Reports 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2000 1990 1999 Heritage Technical Reports Compaq DEC Technical Reports Tandem Technical Reports Click here for full text : A Live Comparison of Methods for Personalized Article Recommendation at Forbes.com Kirshenbuam , Evan Forman , George Dugan , Michael HP Laboratories HPL-2012-95R1 Keyword(s personalization recommender systems collaborative filtering content analysis live user trial : Abstract We present the results of a

  • Trajectory-Aware Mobile Search Microsoft Research

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:41
    Share this page Live Favorites Digg del.icio.us Twitter Newsvine Facebook Videos Projects Publications People Downloads Home Our Research Connections Careers Hub Worldwide Labs Research Areas Research Groups Researcher Reflections Stretch into the Unknown Publications Trajectory-Aware Mobile Search Trajectory-Aware Mobile Search Shahriyar Amini , A.J . Bernheim Brush , John Krumm , Jaime Teevan , and Amy Karlson May 2012 Most location-aware mobile applications only make use of the user†s current location , but there is an opportunity for them to infer the user†s future locations . We present Trajectory-Aware Search TAS a mobile local search application that predicts the user†s destination in real-time based on location data from the current trip and shows search results near the

  • AWS Announces CloudSearch

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:30
    Amazon Web Services AWS Products Solutions Search In Developers Support Sign Up My Account Console What's New AWS Announces CloudSearch We are excited to announce Amazon CloudSearch , a fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their . applications Amazon CloudSearch enables search functionality for your website or application without the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a search service . You don’t have to worry about hardware provisioning , data partitioning , setup and configuration , or software . patches Built for high throughput and low latency , Amazon CloudSearch supports a rich set of features including free text search , faceted search , customizable relevance ranking ,

  • AWS Announces DynamoDB

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:30
    Amazon Web Services AWS Products Solutions Search In Developers Support Sign Up My Account Console What's New AWS Announces DynamoDB We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Amazon DynamoDB , a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides extremely fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability . With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console , you can easily create a new DynamoDB database table , or scale your table’s request capacity to the level that you need without incurring any downtime . With Amazon DynamoDB customers get : Fast , predictable performance at any . scale Customers can typically achieve average latencies in the single-digit milliseconds for database operations . Durability and . high-availability DynamoDB stores data on Solid State

  • Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Beta

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:30
    Amazon Web Services AWS Products Solutions Search In Developers Support Sign Up My Account Console What's New Introducing AWS Elastic Beanstalk Beta We are excited to announce AWS Elastic Beanstalk an even easier way for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud . Easy to begin and impossible to outgrow , developers simply upload their application and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning , load balancing , auto-scaling , and application health monitoring . At the same time , Elastic Beanstalk developers retain full control over the AWS resources powering their application and can access the underlying resources at any time . While the initial release of Elastic Beanstalk supports Java web application developers

  • WTF k Measuring Ineffectiveness

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:22
    : The Noisy Channel ABOUT DISCLOSURE Follow dtunkelang Hiring : Taking It Personally Matt Lease : Recent Adventures in Crowdsourcing and Human Computation WTF k : Measuring Ineffectiveness August 20th , 2012 17 Comments General At SIGIR 2004 Ellen Voorhees presented a paper entitled Measuring Ineffectiveness in which she : asserted Using average values of traditional evaluation measures for information retrieval systems is not an appropriate methodology because it emphasizes effective topics : poorly performing topics’ scores are by definition small , and they are therefore difficult to distinguish from the noise inherent in retrieval . evaluation Ellen is one of the world’s top researchers in the field of information retrieval evaluation . And for those not familiar with TREC terminology

  • Cow Clicker Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:31:20
    , Cow Clicker From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search Cow Clicker Developer(s Ian Bogost Release date(s July 2010 Genre(s Simulation RPG Mode(s Single-player with multiplayer interaction Media distribution Web browser Cow Clicker is a social network game on Facebook developed by videogame researcher Ian Bogost The game was intended to be a deconstructive satire of social games particularly those developed by Zynga whose core gameplay only involves clicking on items at certain intervals , de-emphasizing the artistic aspects of video games in favor of promoting social interaction and . monetization Cow Clicker received positive reception from critics and users , who praised the game for its dissection of the common mechanics of social network games , and viewed it

  • SIGIR Portland Oregon 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:57
    Skip to Content SIGIR 2012 Portland , Oregon , USA August 12 16, 2012 Home Program General Schedule Papers Tutorials Workshops Demonstrations Posters Doctoral Consortium Keynotes Industry Track For Attendees Conference Venue Accommodations About Portland Visa Application Registration Student Travel Support Student Housing Call for Student Volunteers For Contributors Call for Sponsorships Call for Papers Call for Workshops Call for Posters Demos Call for Tutorials Call for Doctoral Consortium Submissions Call for Industry Track Proposals Request for Mentoring Instructions for Preparing Contributions Paper Content Guidelines Paper Submission Submission Deadlines Organization Organizing Committee Program Committee Committees About SIGIR SIGIR 2012 About 500 people from 33 countries converged

  • Paul N Bennett's MSR Homepage

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:56
    . Paul N . Bennett Researcher , Context , Learning , and User Experience for Search CLUES Microsoft Research : E-mail paul.n.bennett microsoft.com : Mail One Microsoft Way , Redmond WA 98052-6399, USA Research : Activities I am interested in the development , improvement , and analysis of machine learning methods with a focus on systems that can aid in the automatic analysis of natural language as components of adaptive systems or information retrieval systems . My current focus is on contextual and personalized search , enriched information retrieval , hierarchical and large-scale classification , search query classification and characterization , classification-aided IR ranking , diversity in retrieval results , preferences , and data mining via human computation . applications My past

  • Kevyn Collins-Thompson's HomePage

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:55
    Kevyn Collins-Thompson Researcher Microsoft Research Phone : 1-425-882-8080 Fax : 1-425-936-7329 Email : kevynct AT microsoft com Mailing Address : Microsoft Research Building 99 1 Microsoft Way Redmond , WA 98052-6399 Kevyn Collins-Thompson is a Researcher in the Context , Learning , and User Experience for Search group at Microsoft Research Redmond My primary research interests involve the development of machine learning and optimization methods for improving information systems , especially algorithms that are robust under uncertainty and that can automatically adapt to users and their information needs . One area of special interest is development of robust algorithms for information systems that can effectively balance risk and reward a research direction that I introduced in my PhD

  • Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:52
    : Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Information Retrieval research and search engine development . discussion Monday , August 13 Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech Norbert Fuhr presented the Salton Award keynote . speech James Allan presented Norbert Fuhr with the 10th Salton award . He published IR paper in 1984, in Cambridge England . The paper was 19 pages long . Since then , he has authored over 200 papers . foreshadowing learning ranking . functions probablistic retrieval models retrieval models for interactive retrieval Information Retrieval as Engineering Science We have to listen to the old guys , but we don't have to accept it , but this doesn't hold for my talk today What is IR IR is about vagueness and imprecision in information systems Vagueness User is not able to

  • Prof Dr Ing Norbert Fuhr Professor

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:51
    . . . Inhalt Zielgruppeneinstieg Hauptnavigation Universität Duisburg-Essen Studieninteressierte Studierende Promovierende Alumni Gäste Förderer Presse International Informatik und Angewandte Kognitionswissenschaft Arbeitsgruppe Informationsysteme Prof . Dr . Ing . Norbert Fuhr Professor UDE Fakultäten Ingenieurwissenschaften Abteilung InKo Informationssysteme Prof . Dr . Ing . Norbert Fuhr Professor Mitarbeiter Professor Sekretärinnen Wiss . Mitarbeiter Studentische Hilfskräfte Computer-Pools Ehemalige Mitarbeiter Prof . Dr . Ing . Norbert Fuhr Projekte Lehre Publikationen Vorträge Abschlussarbeiten Lehre Abschlussarbeiten Forschung Publikationen Über uns Stellenangebote Versuchsteilnahme Promotionsausschuss Abteilung FGIR GI-Fachgruppe Information Retrieval Easy Access to Digital

  • ACM SIGIR Awards

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:50
    Home General Information Events Publications The Forum SIG-IRList Resources Awards SIGIR presents three awards . The Gerard Salton Award is presented every three years to an individual who has made significant , sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval The Best Paper Award is presented to the individual(s judged by a separate awards committee to have written the best paper appearing in the annual conference proceedings . The Best Student Paper is presented to the author of the best paper written solely or primarily by a . student SIGIR also co-sponsors with SIGWEB the Vannevar Bush award for the best paper at the JCDL . conference Gerard Salton Award This award honors those who have made significant , sustained and continuing contributions to research in

  • Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:49
    : Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Information Retrieval research and search engine development . discussion Monday , August 13 Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech Norbert Fuhr presented the Salton Award keynote . speech James Allan presented Norbert Fuhr with the 10th Salton award . He published IR paper in 1984, in Cambridge England . The paper was 19 pages long . Since then , he has authored over 200 papers . foreshadowing learning ranking . functions probablistic retrieval models retrieval models for interactive retrieval Information Retrieval as Engineering Science We have to listen to the old guys , but we don't have to accept it , but this doesn't hold for my talk today What is IR IR is about vagueness and imprecision in information systems Vagueness User is not able to

  • Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:49
    : Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Information Retrieval research and search engine development . discussion Monday , August 13 Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech Norbert Fuhr presented the Salton Award keynote . speech James Allan presented Norbert Fuhr with the 10th Salton award . He published IR paper in 1984, in Cambridge England . The paper was 19 pages long . Since then , he has authored over 200 papers . foreshadowing learning ranking . functions probablistic retrieval models retrieval models for interactive retrieval Information Retrieval as Engineering Science We have to listen to the old guys , but we don't have to accept it , but this doesn't hold for my talk today What is IR IR is about vagueness and imprecision in information systems Vagueness User is not able to

  • Email Post to a Friend

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:48
    Email Post to a : Friend Jeff's Search Engine Caffè The information you provide on this form will not be used for anything other than sending the email to your friend . This feature is not to be used for advertising or excessive . self-promotion Your Name Required Your Email Address Required Friend's Email Address Enter a comma-separated list of up to 10 email . addresses Required Remember Me Saves your name and email address on this computer Message Maximum 300 characters Please prove you're not a robot Type the two : words Type the words you : hear Get a new challenge Get an audio challenge Get a visual challenge Help Type the characters you see in the . picture Norbert Fuhr SIGIR 2012 Salton Keynote Speech Norbert Fuhr presented the Salton Award keynote . speech James Allan presented

  • Jeff's Search Engine Caffè August 12, 2012

    Updated: 2012-09-06 04:30:20
    : Jeff's Search Engine Caffè Information Retrieval research and search engine development . discussion Wednesday , August 15 SIGIR 2012 Best Paper Awards Last night at the SIGIR 2012 banquet , James Allan presented the best paper awards . This year there were two awards , plus an additional honorable mention One with the : papers Honorable Mention Robust Ranking Models via Risk-Sensitive Optimization Lidan Wang UMd Paul N Bennett Microsoft Kevyn Collins-Thompson MSR This paper tackles the issue of robustness , and examines how systems that despite achieving gain overall may still significantly hurt many queries . They present a framework for optimizing both effectiveness and robustness and the tradeoff between the two . nbsp Best Student Paper Top-k Learning to Rank : Labeling , Ranking

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