Many of you know that I am one of the survivors of September 11th, escaping the WTC North Tower when New York City was attacked.
But I never told you the amazing effort of our city’s recovery.
On August 26th 2004, just 2 weeks shy of the annual anniversary, NYPD called me. An officer told me [...]
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When He’s a She, an Olympic Challenge for Natural Language Understanding
Here is a big challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantics experts!
In a recent article - State-media story fuels questions on gymnast’s age - about He Kexin, a Chinese gymnast, this funny line appeared:
He herself told reporters after Wednesday’s final that “my real age is 16. I don’t pay any attention to what everyone [...]
Last Lecture from Randy Pausch
I am sad to learn that Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an international sensation and a best-selling book, died today early Friday at his home in Virginia.
On my site, I only talk about people and scientists whom I know. But [...]
Modeling TRUST for Enterprise Social Networks
Companies are ramping up social network services in their organizations. Many managers are asking how to increase content contribution from employees and how to measure the success of enterprise social network.
I suggest that they should start thinking about the human motivation and behavior factor.
After the dotcom bubble burst in early 2000, many companies took [...]
NYC Science and Technology Map
Many people asked me if there are any technology museums in NYC. Yes, we’ve wonderful science and technology museums and… we have the Apple Store Fifth Avenue open 24 hours!
See the Google map I created below (click on it to see the details).
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Apple Store at Fifth Avenue (HIGHLY recommended)
It’s not a museum, but [...]
2008 FIRST Championship
I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video
For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08” headline.
ATLANTA – April [...]
The Clouds are Moving…Fast
Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April. There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing. Specifically questions like:
Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services?
Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine?
Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application development easier. Their [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction
There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago - Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU.
Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and [...]
Best of Corporate Blogging
Web 2.0 is about gathering Collective Intelligence.
I was looking at Fortune companies use of blogging and if they encourage their employees to blog.
Below are my picks (based on frequency of posts, page rank and content) - not listed by preference:
Tibco: http://tibcoblogs.com
GE Global Research: From Edison’s Desk
Sun Microsystems: blogs.sun.com
IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/
Oracle: http://blogs.oracle.com/
Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
HP: The Digital Mindset
Cisco: The Platform: [...]
IPMU (Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems) Conference in Málaga, Spain: June 22-27, 2008
IPMU Conference in Málaga, Spain: June 22-27, 2008
The IPMU Conference is organized every two years with the focus of bringing together scientists working on methods for the management of uncertainty and aggregation of information in intelligent systems. This conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners in these and related [...]
