The woman in Technology that I want to draw attention to on Ada Lovelace day (I know I’m late) is Jeri Ellsworth. Her interests are “Home chip fabs, pinball machines, race car chassis design”. She is an electrical and mechanical engineer. I know nothing about this stuff and I[...]
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March 19th, 2009 - 4:23 pm § in Information retrieval
Information Extraction is not Information Retrieval
Here we will be covering mostly what information extraction (IE) is because it isn’t given nearly as much attention as information retrieval (IR). The differences are highlighted but for more in-depth information on IR check Mannings online book. I’ve provided an IR glossary and also a [...]
December 1st, 2008 - 9:59 pm § in Uncategorized
Why writing a search engine is hard
Anna Patterson, research Associate to the formal reasoning group at Stanford and ex-Googler, also head lady at the Cuil search engine explains why writing a search engine is hard at the ACM queue. Some main points: Building good search engines has never been done in a big group but in teams of 1 to [...]
