Geeking with Greg

Michael Schwarz from Yahoo Research gave an invited talk at KDD 2008 on "Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design". Much of...

A panel at KDD 2008 called " Social Networks: Looking Ahead " was more remarkable for the questions it failed to answer than the o...

Jitendra Malik from UC Berkeley gave an enjoyable and often quite amusing invited talk at KDD 2008 on "The Future of Image Search...

Daniel Abadi, Samuel Madden, and Nabil Hachem had a paper at SIGMOD 2008, "Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?...

I'll be at KDD 2008 next week. If you make it there, please say hello!

Avinash Lakshman, Prashant Malik, and Karthik Ranganathan presented a talk at SIGMOD 2008, " Cassandra: Structured Storage System over ...

Paul Graham at Y Combinator posts an interesting list of " Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund ". My favorites are Fix Advertising...

Martin Theobald, Jonathan Siddharth, and Andreas Paepcke from Stanford University have a cute idea in their SIGIR 2008 paper, "SpotSigs...

Liu et al. from Microsoft Research Asia had the best student paper at SIGIR 2008, "BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importan...

A SIGIR 2008 paper out of Yahoo Research, "ResIn: A Combination of Results Caching and Index Pruning for High-performance Web Search En...

Jaime Teevan, Sue Dumais, and Dan Liebling had a paper at SIGIR 2008, "To Personalize or Not to Personalize: Modeling Queries with Vari...

Georges Dupret and Benjamin Piwowarski from Yahoo Research had a great paper at SIGIR 2008, "A User Browsing Model to Predict Search En...

Ronnie Chaiken, Bob Jenkins, Per-Ake Larson, Bill Ramsey, Darren Shakib, Simon Weaver, and Jingren Zhou have an upcoming paper at VLDB 2008,...

Googler Kai-Fu Lee gave a keynote talk yesterday at SIGIR 2008 on "The Google China Experience". The Google China experience has ...

Filip Radlinski, Robert Kleinberg, and Thorsten Joachims have a ICML 2008 paper, "Learning Diverse Rankings with Multi-Armed Bandits...

Chris Olston, Benjamin Reed, Adam Silberstein, and Utkarsh Srivastava at Yahoo Research had a USENIX 2008 paper, "Automatic Optimizatio...

I finally got to a fun paper I have been meaning to read for some time, "Tribler: A social-based peer-to-peer system" ( PDF ). Wha...

I will be at SIGIR 2008 next week in Singapore. If you make it to what is very nearly the antipode for those of us in the US, please say ...

There were a few interesting developments in the past couple weeks from Google that appear to relate to their ability to track much of the m...

Scott Yih, Robert McCann, and Alek Kolcz had a paper at CEAS 2007 on "Improving Spam Filtering by Detecting Gray Mail" ( PDF ). Th...