Geeking with Greg

Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits have a SOSP 2007 paper, "AjaxScope: A Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-Side Behavior of Web 2....

Eric Alterman writes an article, " Out of Print ", in the March 31 New Yorker about "the death and life of the American newsp...

James Hamilton posts detailed notes ( [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] ) on the talks at the Hadoop Summit . Hadoop is the open source version of Go...

Northeastern Professor Gene Cooperman recently gave a curious Google engEdu tech talk, " Disk-Based Parallel Computation, Rubik's C...

UNC Professor Diane Kelly gave a Google engEdu talk recently titled " Relevance Feedback: Getting the Most out of Your User ". I f...

In a post titled " More data usually beats better algorithms ", Anand Rajaraman talks about the success a team from his data minin...

James Hamilton wrote a LISA 2007 paper, "On Designing and Deploying Internet-Scale Services" ( PDF ) with a remarkable brain dump...

I will be at the " International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media " March 30 to April 2 here in Seattle. If you are interest...

I have a started an internal version of Geeking with Greg inside Microsoft. It will be similar to this blog, but cover more day-to-day work...

I have a video interview on MIX Online titled " Greg Linden: Trends in Collective Intelligence and Centralization ". I ramble on ...

It appears we will be seeing some interesting new support for re-finding in the next version of Firefox. From the release notes for Firef...

UW CS graduate student Aaron Kimball is giving a talk, " Welcome to the new area of cloud computing ", here in Seattle on Hadoop ...

I have an article in the March 2008 issue of IEEE Spectrum titled " People Who Read This Article Also Read... ". The article is on...

Qiaozhu Mei had a fun talk at WSDM 2008 with dramatic, sometimes outlandish, but always thought-provoking statements about web search based ...

I got back from Collective Intelligence Foo Camp late last night. As promised , here is a summary of some of the highlights, the major tho...

Yahoo's Eric Baldeschwieler reports that Yahoo is now running a 10k+ core Hadoop cluster that holds over 5 petabytes of data. Very coo...

Nick Carr makes an observation about problems that occur in "self-regulating, super-democratic communities" as they grow. An ex...

Security guru Ed Felten posts about " Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption ", a sideways attack on BitLocker, FileVault, and other...

I am very much looking forward to going to Collective Intelligence Foo Camp this weekend. CI Foo is a Tim O'Reilly gathering hosted by ...

Mark Meiss gave an great talk at WSDM 2008 on a fascinating project where they tapped and anonymized all traffic into and out of Indiana Uni...