Geeking with Greg

The WSDM conference is being held Feb 11-12 at Stanford University. I am not sure I will make it down from Seattle for it, but, if you are...

Dan Olsen at BYU gave a talk, " Interactive Machine Learning ", at UW CS a couple months back. Dan's group is doing some clev...

Findory turned off its last webserver today. Sadness. Previous posts ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] ) have more details on the shutdown and...

John Markoff quotes Microsoft Chief Research Officer Craig Mundie on the opportunity multicore processors on our desktop creates for AI an...

Eric Enge posted an interview with Google personalization guru Sep Kamvar. Some highlights of Sep's answers below: The two signals that...

AI guru Geoffrey Hinton recently gave a brilliant Google engEdu talk, " The Next Generation of Neural Networks ". If you have any...

The BellKor team won the progress prize in the Netflix recommender contest . They have published a few papers ( [1] [2] [3] ) on their e...

I have been watching the uproar over Facebook Beacon over the last couple weeks with some amusement. The system was intended to aggregate pu...

John Battelle notes a study that reports: In December 2005 ... 2% of the [top] links proposed by Google and 4% of those proposed by Yahoo c...

The WSJ reports that "a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep .... could be...

Googler Steve Goldberg announces that Google Reader has launched feed recommendations based on "what other feeds you subscribe to, as ...

Jeremy Crane at Compete.com reports that The top 1% of searchers performs a full 13% of all searches in a given month. If you extend this t...

I do not agree with everything AP CEO Tom Curley said in his Nov. 1 speech , but I am going to shamelessly pick out the parts I agree with i...

Tim Lee at TechDirt has a great post about personalization of television advertising: As the quality of Google ads got better, users starte...

Michael Isard at Microsoft Research gave a Google Tech Talk, " Dryad: A general-purpose distributed execution platform ". Dryad mi...

Amazon CIO Rick Dalzell retired after ten years at the company. It was a great pleasure working with Rick during the early days of Amazon. ...

John Cook at the Seattle PI has the scoop that UW CS professors Brian Bershad and Craig Chambers "are joining Google's new devel...

Stefanie Olsen at CNet asks, " Can Facebook feed its ad brains? ", in an article that describes some of the challenges Facebook wi...

Seung-Taek Park and David Pennock from Yahoo Research had a good paper on personalized search at KDD 2007, "Applying Collaborative Filt...

Yury Lifshits gave a Google Tech talk, " Similarity Search: A Web Perspective ", surveying various algorithms for finding similar ...