Posted in Content Discovery, Random Thoughts on Apr 30th, 2007
While playing around with similarity metrics, I’ve been struck by how many different approaches there are for comparing one thing to another. For example, I’ve got a movie and want to find out how similar it is to another movie. There are probably a zillion different ways to code up a solution culled […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Apr 20th, 2007
I had breakfast with Robert and Jonathan Kraft today, and at the risk of seeming a name-dropper or a sniveling kiss @ss, spending time with them is like a lesson in the values that contribute so much to the success or failure of a business. Among Robert’s most often sited maxims, reinforced at every opportunity, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 18th, 2007
Chances are, you sometimes need to show some mathematical formulae (formulas from now on, in order to sound less pretentious) in your slide presentations. If you use Word’s built in formula editor, or anything other than LaTeX for that matter, your formulas are going to end up looking something like this:
They’ll look nothing like the […]
Posted in Human Factors on Apr 18th, 2007
My final project this semester is a stab at the segmentation problem of online Arabic handwriting. Arabic script is inherently more difficult to segment than Latin script because the Arabic script is non restricted and always cursive. Online handwriting means using an input device such as a stylus, a tablet or even a mouse to […]
Posted in Content Discovery, Media Delivery, Social Networking on Apr 11th, 2007
I have been registered user of Amazon.com for many years now. I still remember when Amazon started to recommend books to me upon log-in. I wasn’t very impressed with the recommendations made by Amazon’s initial implementation of the recommendation system. But that was my first experience with the on-line recommendation systems, which have become very […]
Posted in Business Strategy on Apr 10th, 2007
As you probably know, matchmine participates in the media discovery marketplace, matching people with video, audio and textual information based on a sophisticated understanding of their personal interests and tastes. Building on the foundation of science and infrastructure developed throughout 2006, we’ve made great headway in the last few months putting the building blocks of […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Apr 8th, 2007
I finished Tom Friedman’s excellent The World is Flat last weekend, and got started on Linked soon thereafter. It struck me that books like these are more than interesting, they’re important to people who want to understand the world we live in.
This got me thinking about what books I’d give my kids to help them […]
Posted in Human Factors on Apr 6th, 2007
Last fall, Eric DeMenthon, David Kim and myself wrote a web application that allowed users to design simple user interfaces, say for embedded devices, by creating and manipulating directed graphs. We wrote it in OpenLaszlo and named it Kagome. Kagome was our final class project for 6.831 at MIT.
Think of the user interface of a […]
Posted in Semantic Web on Apr 6th, 2007
It’s gratifying to see core concepts about the semantic web being popularized. I see the first step in this long journey in mass adoption being understanding. To date, I believe only a rarified few have thoroughly grasped the utility and ultimate power of a semantified web. Unfortunately, there are a lot more […]
Posted in Semantic Web on Apr 2nd, 2007
According to their press, ZoomInfo is taking the path toward semantic search by utilizing their patented technologies to pre-scrub crawled data. This approach, rather than relying on adding linguistic magic at query time, allows them the flexibility to massage the crawled data into searchable indexes. In this way, it then looks like the […]
