From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
A lesson that we software engineers learn early in our careers is that “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” This gem of advice from the inimitableDonald...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 24, 2019 at 09:01 AM
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced today that Don Hollander is retiring from his position as Secretary General at the end of May. Don is a...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | May 22, 2019 at 10:00 AM
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am more...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | May 2, 2019 at 03:16 AM
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus A month into my new role as Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), I am moreLooking...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | May 2, 2019 at 03:11 AM
Much of the innovation in information retrieval and recommender systems focuses on better targeting in order to improve relevance. Those of us who develop suchin...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 22, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Thanks Tony! And you’re right thatI’m oversimplifying. My excuse is that it was already a 2,000-word post. :-)Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 26, 2019 at 02:01 PM
Query understanding and relevance are key aspects of search, but they don’t tell the whole story. A holistic framework for search calls for a broader perspective...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 25, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Leadership to Continue the Group’s Work in Ensuring the Universal Acceptance of All Domain Names 15 MARCH 2019 – The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)UASG...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | March 15, 2019 at 05:01 AM
At first glance, the design and development of search engines appear to be concerned mainly with computer science — particularly information retrieval, machine,...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 11, 2019 at 09:01 AM
One of my earliest blog posts was “A Twitter Analog to PageRank”, in which I proposed a simple measure for Twitter influence.As the title indicates, the measure...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 19, 2019 at 09:01 AM
By John Levine Since its inception in 2015, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has focused on raising awareness of Universal Acceptance (UA) issues,...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 12, 2019 at 05:17 AM
This article originally appeared on ICANN.org Last month, I participated in the first of a planned series of roadshows in China that are focused on Internationalized...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | January 10, 2019 at 04:25 AM
I spent the last few days at SODA-ANALCO-ALENEX-SOSA in San Diego. (Nice location choice, I'd say!) Here's some news.This will be the last ANALCO (Analytic Algorithms...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2019 at 05:25 PM
Since 2015, when I worked with ICANN to found the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), a consortium of companies including Afilias, Apple, GoDaddy, Google...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 19, 2018 at 03:53 AM
Today Smt. Vasundhara raje, Hon`ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan was felicitated as “Universal Acceptance Thought Leader” by UASG. This award was for Raj Mail project...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 12, 2018 at 05:47 AM
So, what is Universal Acceptance ? It is the state where all valid domain names and email addresses are accepted, validated, stored, processed and displayed correctly...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 12, 2018 at 05:44 AM
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.htmlDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 8, 2018 at 02:50 PM
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 5, 2018 at 06:35 PM
Internet adoption in India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, reached a key milestone earlier this year with 500 million Internet users – more thanRajasthan...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 4, 2018 at 03:12 AM
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 3, 2018 at 04:46 PM