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
Download PDF Core messages at ICANN61 The UASG has several core messages that we’re working on during ICANN61: The first is working through our workshop agendas...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | March 6, 2018 at 06:02 AM
Today, International Mother Language Day, we announced support for EAI in Office 365 and Outlook.com. We are focusing on Outlook and webmail for now, though we...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 23, 2018 at 03:50 AM
Until now, we’ve mostly focused on query processing — which is to be expected, given that this series is about query understanding. But given that searchers are...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 20, 2018 at 11:57 PM
About a month ago, a draft paper was put out on arxiv called The Case for Learned Indexed Structures by the people at Google Brain. The paper has received some...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 25, 2018 at 09:15 AM
Great post, and thanks for the shout-out! Excited to read the rest of the series.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 05:23 PM
Faceted search is a topic broad enough to deserve its own book. It has become a standard feature of all modern search engines, including open-source platforms like...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 24, 2018 at 03:12 PM
I didn’t say it’s illegal for search engines, hiQ, or anyone else to attempt to attempt to index the LinkedIn public profiles. Quite the opposite.Here’s what I said...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 18, 2018 at 05:41 PM
I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience of having the ALENEX conference...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2018 at 09:27 PM
Thanks Randy! And I promise I’ll discuss some of the issues of mobile and voice interfaces in future posts.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 8, 2018 at 02:07 PM
The idea of modeling search as a conversation has been around for decades. One of the oldest ideas in information retrieval is relevance feedback, which dates back...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | January 3, 2018 at 12:51 PM
I see that you object to my sentence that “When users opt to make their profiles “public”, they do so with the expectation that their public profile will appear...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 22, 2017 at 01:13 AM
Thank you for the kind words. As for your second point, Nick Bostrom defines “superintelligence” as “an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 04:42 PM
An interesting topic! I have seen sites with functionality along these lines:
Travel sites that inform you whether you can get better prices if your dates are flexible...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 21, 2017 at 10:49 AM
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2017 was an important year for the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 21, 2017 at 03:51 AM
As we saw in the previous post, modeling search as a conversation makes it possible to overcome breakdowns in communication between the searcher and the searchspelling...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM
Most search applications assume a query-response paradigm: the searcher submits a search query, and the search engine responds with results. The query-responseprecision...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 27, 2017 at 09:01 AM
Thanks. If you’re interested in this area, I suggest you read the series of posts I’ve been writing at queryunderstanding.com. Those do include more references,...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 22, 2017 at 12:24 PM
During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled. Growth has continued, and according to the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 16, 2017 at 09:02 AM
I spend a lot of time helping companies improve their search engines. Much of my work involves returning better results for their users’ search queries. But there...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 10, 2017 at 01:07 PM
A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month. I (and the family) liked it so much we went back the nextAarhus...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 9, 2017 at 08:02 AM