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Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

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Powerset shows semantic search solution

Beating the rush of press releases likely to flood inboxes during next week's Semantic Technology Conference, Powerset today announced the public availability of a service that adds a whole new dimension to searching for information from Wikipedia. Whilst much of the functionality unveiled today has been visible...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Team, Xerox PARC, Wikipedia, Powerset, Wiki, Online Communications, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Adjust color like a pro in Adobe Photoshop

Color adjustment is one of Adobe Photoshop's most-used features, and one that you'll rely on whenever you need to touch up a photo or a scanned image. Master the subtleties of working with color in Photoshop in this chapter download from Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Sams Publishing, Adjustment, Chapter Coverage

Book chapters 2007-09-27

Linux definitely has a place in education

Linux definitely has a place in educationneeded softwareAs a new purchser of a Dell laptop with Ubuntu, I have found a major problem with Ubuntu that is also part of Linspire. These distributions support only WEP security for wireless connections.As ZDNET writers have written this is only secure for a...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, education

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Hillary cast as big brother in 1984 ad spoof

Hillary cast as big brother in 1984 ad spoofThe perfect fit!!If having a politician using your attack ad isn't confirmation that Apple is a malicious, mean spirited, "focus on the negative" company, I don't know what is. When even politicians acknowledge that they can't create attack ads better than you,...

Tags: advertisement, Hillary, Obama, TV, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

Hillary cast as big brother in 1984 ad spoof

"It may be the most stunning and creative attack ad yet for a 2008 presidential candidate -- one experts say could represent a watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising," Carla Marinucci reports for The San Francisco Chronicle. "Yet the groundbreaking 74-second pitch for Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack...

Tags: advertisement

Blog posts 2007-03-20

ah, so what's a billion, or two?

Heres something directly from one of my favourite sources of tragi-comedy, the risks digest: Software error reportedly contributed to sudden Dow-Jones drop Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:37:15 PST On 27 Feb 2007, the Chinese stock market experienced a 9% drop. This apparently...

Tags: Taxes, tax, Feb 2007, computer

Blog posts 2007-03-13

School security: High-tech, cops, or Code Red?

School violence is increasing in many California schools and that has many parents and educators wondering if pumping money into more high-tech surveillance is a better alternative than old-fashioned campus security, reports the Mercury News. From installing safety cameras to "Code Red" emergency simulation training for school staffers, schools...

Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Code Red worm

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Schools slow to adopt online courses, even as state agencies approve them

The lack of online options for tech ed classes required by the Maryland Department of Education for graduation is "just crazy," one student told the department recently and others provided further evidence of how slow-moving boards of education are hurting their educational options. In a hearing at a...

Tags: board, school board

Blog posts 2006-10-04

HP says as many as 900,000 notebooks buggy

HP says as many as 900,000 notebooks buggyinterestingAnd people wonder why we chose the AMD powered HP and Compaq laptops. Now I have another answer besides performance and price.better than Sony VaioLast year I bought a nice notebook from Sony, it had the same problem.Initially I was thinking it was...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Quality, Notebooks, Desktops, notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2004-06-25