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- Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learning
- Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learningI can understand Peter Norvig's (or Google's)reluctance - search is [b]Google[/b]'s core operation, and «catastrophic errors on searches» are not something they could afford. Still, it would be fascinating if [b]Google[/b] were, after appropriate testing among volunteer guinea pigs (I offer myself as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Peter Norvig
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- Peter Norvig on Google's mistrust of machine learning
- Peter Norvig has been at Google for a long time now -- he was, until recently, the Directory of Search Quality; the guy who made sure every time you submitted a query, you usually got what you wanted. He has since moved into the Director of Research role, but...
- Tags: Algorithm, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Anand, Engineering, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-25
- Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web
- Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the WebEconomic growth in the 21st century"Norvig doesn't expect AGIs to suddenly appear overnight. The U.S. Gross Domestic Product index, for example, shows constant exponential progress but it doesn't seem like any great acceleration can be seen OR PREDICTED due to technology, Norvig said....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Google Inc., Web, HBE, Peter Norvig, GDP Growth
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Singularity Summit 2007: Computers--they kill me
- It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...
- Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Computer, Dan Farber, Google Inc., Peter Norvig, Singularity
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Singularity Summit 2007: Google co-evolving with the Web
- Google Director of Research Peter Norvig opened the second day of the Singularity Summit 2007 with his take on the state artificial general intelligence AGI. Norvig was asked during a Q&A after his talk if Google has seen any "emergent" property or behavior (the way complex systems...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-09
- AlwaysOn: In search of better search
- Three of the search engine kings Microsoft was missing held court during an AlwaysOn Stanford Summit this afternoon, discussing the state of search technology. Bambi Francisco of Marketwatch led the conversation with from right below Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Yahoo; Jim Lanzone. CEO of Ask.com; Peter Norvig,...
- Tags: Peter Norvig, Usama Fayyad
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Search cos. considering industry standards for China
- Google and other technology firms -- presumably Yahoo, Microsoft and Cisco -- are discussing an industry-wide code of principles that would govern American companies in China, Peter Norvig, Google's director of research, told a Silicon Valley meeting Monday, the San Jose Mercury News reports. ...
- Tags: Google Inc., industry standard, Peter Norvig
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
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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
- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Powerset's smarts are Microsoft's gain
- Larry Dignan pours lukewarm water on Microsoft's acquisition of Powerset. Talking about Google's near monopoly in the search market, Larry says: Microsoft can reinvent search, but it’s still running up a natural Google monopoly. The analogy here is Windows: Microsoft didn’t have the best operating system on the planet....
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Powerset, Wiki, Document Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Speech Recognition, Channel Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Investment, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- News to know: Microsoft's social bookmarking; Google vs. Viacom; Adventures in Linux; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to showcase social bookmarking at TechEd Larry Dignan: Google: Viacom's YouTube lawsuit threatens DMCA. Full complaint. Techmeme Ed Bott: Why is fear-mongering such a popular security sales tactic? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Social Bookmarking, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Viacom Inc., Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Viruses And Worms, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Google backs contest to put robot on moon
- The transition from huge, government-funded space projects to those driven by private initiative and capital took a great step forward Thursday. The X Prize Foundation announced that Google is financing a contest to put a privately funded robotic rover on the moon. The thing would...
- Tags: Google Inc., NASA, Moon, Robot, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Is there a Google trap? Data portability vs. accountability
- I often note Google CEO Eric Schmidt is Google’s top cheerleader; Google blogger Matt Cutts seems to be a formidable runner-up. At his “personal” blog, Googler Cutts, head of the Google Webspam team, has been giving props to fellow Googlers this 2007:“Not trapping users’ data = GOOD”I was happy about...
- Tags: Business Models, Google, Google Software Applications, Privacy, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Google Search: Is PageRank reliable?
- How reliable is Googles beloved PageRank based search algorithm formula?Google blogger Matt Cutts points to a fellow Googler blog post, that of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Cutts’ Google shout out warns of self-selection bias in toolbar driven metrics.One of the first commenters at Cutts’ blog, Michael...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, Google, Google Software Applications, Search
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
- Forecasting the next 50 years in science
- In the recent issue of the New Scientist, 70 very smart people predict the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the next 50 years. The topics range from the evolution of consciousness and the universal theory of everything to implantable, organo-electrical brain-machine interfaces and the discovery of extraterrestrial life. In the computing...
- Tags: forecasting, human brain, computer
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Lance Armstrong leads off AMD's Global Vision Conference
- This week I am attending AMD’s Global Vision Conference at the posh Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, near Los Angeles. The agenda is focused on innovations and global impacts, and features a diversity of speakers, including DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Dreamworks’ mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, Wal-Mart CMO John Fleming, Sun chief scientist John...
- Tags: Armstrong
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Google-NASA deal: Space agency's future looking brighter
- The fortunes of NASA are a little less cloudy today, after Google and NASA announced an agreement that may eventually see Google take up to a million square feet of space at NASA Ames Research Center, and work with space scientists on a range of high-flown scientific and computer problems.The...
- Tags: NASA, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-29
- Google co-founder bugged by IPO speculation
- Google co-founder bugged by IPO speculationWell...."Page, 31, who met Brin at Stanford University's graduate program and now serves as Google's president of products, said he spends his days working with the engineering teams on new services."Get to work and fix your sorry search engine!I don't want to see 1800 pages...
- Tags: SEARCH, Investment, IPO, Google Inc., Google Groups, Teoma
- Discussion threads 2004-02-27
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