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
Mapping Search Queries To Search IntentsEvaluating and improving search experience starts with analyzing the queries searchers are making. But search queries are...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 10, 2020 at 09:01 AM
The STOC workshop on Algorithms with Predictions was on Friday, and I thought it went really well! I can't speak for my talk, but the other 3 talks (Tim Roughgarden...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 27, 2020 at 02:06 PM
This post both relates to some of the stuff I'll be presenting at Friday's STOC workshop on Algorithms with Predictions, but is also for future students in my classes...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 25, 2020 at 01:35 PM
By Ajay Data, Chair of the UASG The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) is proud to welcome six new UA Ambassadors into the UASG Ambassador Program for FY21...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | June 18, 2020 at 05:38 AM
There's a whole new, interesting theory trend -- Algorithms with Predictions. The idea, spurred by advances in machine learning, is that you assume you have predictor...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 17, 2020 at 01:53 PM
Reposting an important call -- these events have had big impact in the past!
The CATCS will be hosting a virtual “Visioning Workshop” the week of July 20 in order...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2020 at 06:40 PM
The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has published a new country-based evaluation of email acceptance rates based upon previous testing of the top 1,000...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | May 19, 2020 at 03:23 AM
This morning, I had the pleasure of being hosted by Grant Ingersoll to talk about search with his team at the Wikimedia Foundation.Wikipedia is an indispensable...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 27, 2020 at 01:07 PM
I’m a big fan of opportunity analysis. I’ve seen far too many organizations underinvest in opportunity analysis and thus waste enormous — and avoidable — effort...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 20, 2020 at 09:01 AM
In our 2014 World Report on IDNs, we reported on the work of ICANN’s Task Force on Arabic script IDNs, an initiative of the Middle East Strategy Working Group.Task...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | April 17, 2020 at 03:25 AM
By Dennis Tan Tanaka, Vice Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) Universal Acceptance (UA) is the simple concept that all domain names and all...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | April 7, 2020 at 05:58 AM
Thank you for the kind words!If I follow you, then you are pointing out that, by generating revenue through promoted search, a business can funnel that revenue...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 25, 2020 at 07:45 PM
My post on promoted search results drew some pointed feedback. People asked me what kind of promoted search behavior I deem acceptable, as well as whether I saw...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 24, 2020 at 09:01 AM
By Dušan Stojičević, Vice Chair of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2019 was a busy and productive year for the UASG as we worked to spread awareness...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 18, 2020 at 03:00 AM
I’m not a fan of ads. So you might expect me to be violently opposed to promoted search results — search engine results that are optimized for something other than...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 3, 2020 at 09:01 AM
This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog). But also putting the numbers here for others to know for...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 2, 2020 at 10:04 PM
I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS, or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on Scheduling with Prediction and the Price...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 14, 2020 at 03:27 PM
By Dr. Ajay Data, chair of the UASG; founder and CEO of XgenPlus I am invigorated after returning from ICANN66, which took place in Montréal 2-7 November. Always...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 2, 2019 at 02:00 AM
If your business depends on search, it’s critical to track search effectiveness using an evaluation methodology. In my experience, most organizations rely on implicit...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 25, 2019 at 09:01 AM
Delivering effective search starts with defining how to measure effectiveness.The information retrieval community has been evaluating search for decades. Established...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 19, 2019 at 10:04 AM