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Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set out to create four new algorithms capable of withstanding…
Maddy Hunter| September 19, 2023
By the China UA Local Initiative (CDNI) The number of Internet users in China recently surpassed 1 billion and China now accounts for about one-fifth of all Internet...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | September 13, 2023 at 03:27 AM
By Anil Kumar Jain, UASG Chair To kick off FY24, the UASG administrative team recently met in Istanbul for an in-person planning meeting. This valuable face-to-face...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | September 1, 2023 at 03:31 AM
I am proud to share the slides for “Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries”, which my eBay colleague Aritra Mandal presented this morning at the KDD 2023 Workshop...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 7, 2023 at 12:49 PM
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the summer. I took a sabbatical from teaching, but I’m looking forward to new students this fall.Are you excited to learn...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 3, 2023 at 05:49 PM
As a search specialist, my main goal is to improve searcher happiness. Sure, companies pay me to improve business metrics like conversion rate and revenue, butprobability...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 24, 2023 at 09:01 AM
We have reached the stage of generative AI where artists, authors, and performers are convinced that AI is stealing their lives — and, perhaps more importantly,...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 20, 2023 at 02:30 PM
Search result snippets, also known as query-biased summaries, are the additional context included with each result on the search results page. They are an essential...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 17, 2023 at 02:54 PM
Let me start with the disclaimer that this post describes an embryonic idea, not an approach that I have validated through analysis or experimentation. With that...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 10, 2023 at 09:02 AM
By Anil Kumar Jain, UASG Chair It has been an exciting year for the global Internet community, in particular those who are working toward the Universal Acceptance...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | July 3, 2023 at 07:00 PM
Universal Acceptance events held in over 40 countries/territories, featuring 22 languages Los Angeles, CA – 3 July 2023 – The Internet Corporation for AssignedThousands...UASG From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | July 3, 2023 at 10:30 AM
When my colleagues and I at Endeca started working on faceted search in 1999, our model of the search journey was that most searchers start with broadly expressed...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 30, 2023 at 09:02 AM
In the 1979 movie “The Jerk”, there is a hilarious scene where Navin (played by Steve Martin) becomes excited at the discovery that his name is in print — in the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 15, 2023 at 09:02 AM
In application design, affordances are cues that help users discover and explore how to interact with the application. Typical affordances for search applications...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 26, 2023 at 12:58 PM
From Today, Creativity Is Dead!A common theme in the concerns about generative AI is that it will replace human-generated art and end creativity as we know it.daguerreotype...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 23, 2023 at 11:28 AM
The recent advances in generative AI have led many people to fear all manner of deepfakes — particularly text, images, audio, and video. People like Yuval NoahAI...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 22, 2023 at 04:21 PM
In a recent Tom Fishburne cartoon, one employee says “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote,” while another says, “AI makesgenerative...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 13, 2023 at 08:40 PM
These are early days for generative AI, but it already feels like we are at the dawn of a revolution in human-computer communication. Practically overnight, wefacets...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 12, 2023 at 02:26 PM
For as long as we have had needs, long before servers started asking us “Sorry, we don’t have Coke, is Pepsi ok?”, we have accepted substitutes for the products...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 8, 2023 at 01:55 PM
In 1998, Jaime Carbonell and Jade Goldstein proposed maximal marginal relevance (MMR) as way to balance the concerns of relevance and diversity. This measure is...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 3, 2023 at 09:01 AM
Search application developers put a lot of effort into optimizing the ranking of search results, especially in areas like ecommerce, where incremental ranking improvements...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 27, 2023 at 03:38 PM