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ACM-W Connections — December 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Student Chapters Grace Hopper India 2018 News from ACM-W…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Smt. Vasundhara Raje, Hon`ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan was felicitated as “Universal Acceptance Thought Leader”
Today Smt. Vasundhara raje, Hon`ble Chief Minister of Rajasthan was felicitated as “Universal Acceptance Thought Leader” by UASG. This award was for Raj Mail project...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) by ICANN
So, what is Universal Acceptance ? It is the state where all valid domain names and email addresses are accepted, validated, stored, processed and displayed correctly...
From The Noisy Channel
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
From My Biased Coin
NIPS 2018 Post
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Rajasthan State’s New Email Project Brings Millions of Hindi Speakers Online
Internet adoption in India, one of the world's fastest growing economies, reached a key milestone earlier this year with 500 million Internet users – more thanRajasthan...
From The Noisy Channel
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response.
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising...
From The Noisy Channel
Are Ads Really That Bad?
Long-time readers know that I’m not a fan of ads. Specifically, I’m not a fan of ad-supported business models. But is that just a matter of personal taste? Or does...
From My Biased Coin
Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship Advertising Post
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...
From The Noisy Channel
Activate 2018: Search in Practice
I don’t always attend conferences. But when I do, I prefer conferences full of search practitioners focused on solving real-world problems.I just came back from...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Enterprise Benefits of Internationalized Domain Names
By Dr. Ajay Data, Founder and CEO, XgenPlus Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) enable people around the world to use domain names in local languages and scripts...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks for the kind words. As for how to get your team to approach query understanding, it’s hard to give generic advice. But if you can find a way to categorize...
From The Noisy Channel
Query Understanding, Divided into Three Parts
Julius Caesar started his famous text on the Gallic wars with the sentence “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres.”Like Gaul, query understanding is, as a whole...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks for the shout-out!
Thanks for the shout-out! I also recommend Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade’s posts on the subject, which you can find at https://medium.com/related-works-inc.
From My Biased Coin
Lenore Blum interview
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Progress with Email Address Internationalisation
By Don Hollander The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is focused on getting all applications to accept all domain names and all email addresses. We’re doingProgress...
From The Noisy Channel
Thanks Vibhu.
Thanks Vibhu. There are a lot of published case studies about A/B testing in general, but I’m not sure what’s published specifically about A/B testing for search...
From The Noisy Channel
Thoughts about Managing Search Teams
There are lots of articles out there telling you how to be a good manager. This isn’t one of them. This post is specifically directed at people who manage search...
From The Noisy Channel
Real Talk About Synonyms and Search
When I talk to software engineers and product managers about improving their search engines, the conversation often leads to query expansion, and specifically synonyms...
From The Noisy Channel
I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re…
I can’t share those details, but I can say that geography certainly impact latency when you’re serving from the cloud, especially when you are doing query processing...
From The Noisy Channel