Earlier this year, researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech offered an interesting look into the types of content Twitter users valued most. Some 15 percent of online adults use Twitter, with 8 percent using the social network on a...
Oddly, though, Microsoft’s “discovery” comes two days after TAP blog published Internet Explorer privacy protections also being circumvented by Google, Facebook, and many more, by Carnegie Mellon University Associate Professor Lorrie Faith Cranor.
Lead author Paul Andre, post-doctoral fellow in Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), suggests, "If we understood what is worth reading and why, we might design better tools for presenting and filtering content, as well as...
PittPatt has been around since 2004, when it became its own spin-off company based on the technology of a Carnegie Mellon University project from Dr. Google has picked up a facial recognition group known as PittPatt.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers demonstrated how Tweets ("Twitter data" as they call them) replicate opinion estimation for two major U.S.indicators, with some correlations "as high as 80%", suggesting that readily available texts from...
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Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Randy Pausch delivered the "Last Lecture" after he learned that he'd developed terminal pancreatic cancer. His video became an Internet sensation, with over 3,000,000 views on...
Andrew received bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from MIT, and a Ph.D.in CS from Carnegie Mellon University. At last month's SES New York, Kevin Newcomb covered the Thursday morning keynote by Andrew Tomkins in an article...
Google's supporting a Carnegie Mellon development called the Unified Social Network (USN). Weekend mumblings of social networks came from both Yahoo and Google. In the case of Yahoo, it intends to develop Mosh.
ESP Game, created by Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn. I'm not employed by Google, however, since I'm a full-time faculty member at Carnegie Mellon. The game pits you against someone else. If you see a picture of a car, and you both label...
For the search historians out there, the Lycos crawling technology was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and then entered into an exclusive licensing deal with CMG@Ventures on June 20, 1995.
Don't forget that Pittsburgh is also home to Vivisimo/Clusty which was started by Carnegie Mellon computer science students and faculty members including Vivisimo CEO, Raul Valdes-Perez.and Jerome Pesenti, Chief Scientist & Co-founder.
Personalized search research at Carnegie Mellon University Stefanie Olsen does a great job offering a look at several search and info retrieveal research projects underway at various universities in the US.
The paper comes from the CORDRA project at Carnegie Mellon University. Developers and other search geeks out there might find this draft document that lists and discusses a number of search interface protocols and specifications worthy of a read...
Developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, they're used to separate the humans from bots in Web site registrations, preventing large-scale automated registrations that can then be used to send spam.
Olston, (Carnegie Mellon University) More papers are linked in this April, 2004 compilation I put together for the blog. The complete proceedings is available here. Here are links to some of the "search related" papers/presentations that might be...
A new article from the Hackensack Record offers more details about The Universal Library (from Carnegie Mellon University, The Internet Archive and others) and Project Gutenberg. Our objective is to ultimately take the works of man.digitize it and...
Carnegie Mellon University Center for Machine Translation Announces Lycos (8/14/94) Slashdot has a thread about a "new" timeline from Google that highlights interesting and historic posts from their 20 year Usenet (aka Google Groups) archive.
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. SEW Search Term Research Resources Updated + SEW Awards Later This Month + SES New...
Ten large libraries are taking part in the project including the Carnegie Mellon University Library, The Library of Congress, and the University of Toronto Library. In This Issue SES New York Comes Next + Search Engine Watch Articles + More From...
