ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Google Labs- March 17, 2005 These are my notes on the From the Labs: Google Labs session by Peter Norvig, Ph.D. Peter started off by pointing out that since Google hires Ph.D's in their regular developer positions they often end up treating their developers as researchers while treating their researchers as developers. Google's goal is to organize the world's data. Google researchers aid in this goal by helping Google add more data sources to their search engines. They have grown from just searching HTML pages on...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/17/397377.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs- March 17, 2005 These are my notes on the From the Labs: Yahoo! Research Labs session by Gary William Flake. Yahoo! has two research sites, Yahoo! Next and Yahoo! Research Labs. The Yahoo! Next site has links to betas of products that will eventually become products such as Y!Q contextual search, a Firefox version of the Yahoo! toolbar and Yahoo! movie recommendations. The Yahoo! research team focuses on a number of core research areas areas including machine learning,...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/16/397231.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: From the Labs: Microsoft Research- March 17, 2005 These are my notes on the From the Labs: Microsoft Research session by Richard F. Rashid, Ph.D. Rick decided that in the spirit of ETech, he would focus on Microsoft Research projects that were unlikely to be productized in the conventional sense. The first project he talked about was SenseCam. This could be considered by some to be the ultimate blogging tool. It records the user's experiences during the day by taking pictures, recording audio and even monitoring the temperature....http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/16/397214.aspx ETech 2005 Trip Report: Vertical Search and A9- March 16, 2005 These are my notes in the Vertical Search and A9 by Jeff Bezos. The core idea behind this talk was powerful yet simple. Jeff Bezos started of by talking about vertical search. In certain cases, specialized search engines can provide better results than generic search engines. One example is searching Google for Vioxx and performing the same search on a medical search engine such as PubMed. The former returns results that are mainly about class action lawsuits...http://blogs.msdn.com/dareobasanjo/archive/2005/03/16/396773.aspx |