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By John Levine Since its inception in 2015, the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has focused on raising awareness of Universal Acceptance (UA) issues,...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 12, 2019 at 05:17 AM
This article originally appeared on ICANN.org Last month, I participated in the first of a planned series of roadshows in China that are focused on Internationalized...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | January 10, 2019 at 04:25 AM
I spent the last few days at SODA-ANALCO-ALENEX-SOSA in San Diego. (Nice location choice, I'd say!) Here's some news.This will be the last ANALCO (Analytic Algorithms...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2019 at 05:25 PM
Since 2015, when I worked with ICANN to found the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG), a consortium of companies including Afilias, Apple, GoDaddy, Google...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 19, 2018 at 03:53 AM
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...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 12, 2018 at 05:47 AM
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...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 12, 2018 at 05:44 AM
I recommend the links at the bottom of Peter Norvig’s post: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.htmlDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 8, 2018 at 02:50 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 5, 2018 at 06:35 PM
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...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 4, 2018 at 03:12 AM
Mike, I appreciate your detailed response. And I agree that there are worse possible worlds than our present one — specifically, that replacing disclosed advertising...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | December 3, 2018 at 04:46 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 25, 2018 at 03:43 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 19, 2018 at 12:39 PM
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...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | October 16, 2018 at 04:06 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 11:07 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 2, 2018 at 12:34 PM
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.Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 13, 2018 at 06:00 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 10, 2018 at 02:53 PM
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...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | September 6, 2018 at 03:11 AM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 4, 2018 at 11:05 AM