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New UA Testing of Social Media Platforms and Browsers Published
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

New UA Testing of Social Media Platforms and Browsers Published

By the UASG Measurement Working Group Social Media Testing Highlights UA Gaps Social media has become a ubiquitous part of life for people around the globe with...

UASG Welcomes Leading Tech Entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as UA Ambassador
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

UASG Welcomes Leading Tech Entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as UA Ambassador

By Dr. Ajay Data, UASG Chair The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome Indian tech entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma as a Universal Acceptance...

ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs

By Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Director IDN & UA Programs ICANN’s global multistakeholder community recently came together virtually for ICANN72 Annual General MeetingICANN72...

Content Classification
From The Noisy Channel

Content Classification

The most fundamental form of holistic content understanding is classification. Content classification maps a piece of content — that is, an entry in the searchtaxonomy...

Postdoc call for FODSI
From My Biased Coin

Postdoc call for FODSI

As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for data science), I'mhttps...

HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
From My Biased Coin

HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access

HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here.  I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection...

What is Content Understanding?
From The Noisy Channel

What is Content Understanding?

There’s a lot of writing about search — especially about ranking and relevance. And recently there’s been an increased focus on the particular challenges of query...

How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)
From My Biased Coin

How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)

In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit.  The post is based on this paper (by...

Thoughts on Search Result Diversity
From The Noisy Channel

Thoughts on Search Result Diversity

Regular readers know that search is about much more than ranking. If you’re new here, you might want to read this post about ranking vs. relevance.But a topic I...

Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard
From My Biased Coin

Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard

The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...

Balance Your Search Budget!
From The Noisy Channel

Balance Your Search Budget!

Search can be computationally intensive. Indeed, search has been the driving force behind many advances in computational efficiency, from MapReduce for distributed...

On Search Leadership
From The Noisy Channel

On Search Leadership

As a high-class consultant, I don’t just talk to companies about the technical aspects of search. I also help them them address organizational challenges.For example...

Working Towards a Multilingual and Digitally Inclusive Internet: FY21 Progress and Looking Ahead
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Working Towards a Multilingual and Digitally Inclusive Internet: FY21 Progress and Looking Ahead

By Ajay Data, UASG Chair Since 2015, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has been working to make the Internet more inclusive for users around the world...

Harvard Shopping Period, Here We Go Again
From My Biased Coin

Harvard Shopping Period, Here We Go Again

I was looking at today's Harvard Crimson, and noted that Harvard's shopping period looks ready to be vanished again.  Shopping period is that wonderful Harvardsomething...

The Free Advice Club
From The Noisy Channel

The Free Advice Club

The first rule of the Free Advice Club is: you talk about the Free Advice Club! Not like that other club.But I’m getting ahead of myself. I’ve had an extremelyMedium...

Learn How You Can Help Build a More Digitally Inclusive Internet
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Learn How You Can Help Build a More Digitally Inclusive Internet

This blog was originally published on icann.org. By Sarmad Hussain, Senior Director, UA and IDN Programs The Universal Acceptance (UA) of all valid domain names...

UASG Adds Spam Filter Testing to Evaluation of Internationalized Email Support Among Global Systems
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

UASG Adds Spam Filter Testing to Evaluation of Internationalized Email Support Among Global Systems

By the Email Address Internationalization (EAI) Working Group The UASG’s most recent evaluation (UASG030A), conducted by Standcore LLC, has expanded testing ofUASG...

Queues with Small Advice
From My Biased Coin

Queues with Small Advice

I have had papers rejected, with comments of the form that the results seem too easy, and are at the level of a homework assignment.  Generally, I think these reviewers...

Using AI to Understand Search Intent
From The Noisy Channel

Using AI to Understand Search Intent

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post advocating the use of AI for query understanding. I argued that holistic query understanding with embeddings and deep learning...

GitHub Pilot Identifies Most Relevant Coding Libraries for the Universal Acceptance of Domain Names and Email Addresses
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

GitHub Pilot Identifies Most Relevant Coding Libraries for the Universal Acceptance of Domain Names and Email Addresses

By Mark W. Datysgeld, Director at Governance Primer, UASG Member  In partnership with the Governance Primer and the Brazilian Association of Software CompaniesGitHub...
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