Posted by Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist[adapted from the speech given on the occasion of the honoris causa ceremonyat the Universidad Politecnico de Madrid]The Internet is largely a software artifact and a layered one as my distinguished colleague, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has observed on many occasions. The layering has permitted a remarkable versatility in the implementation of the Internet and its applications. New technology can be used to implement each layer and as long as the interfaces between the layers remain static, the changes do...
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Monday, 27 April 2009
The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Web
Posted on 10:39 by Unknown
Posted by Alfred Spector, VP Research and Special InitiativesI just returned from giving a talk at the 18th World Wide Web Conference in Madrid and was pleased to see a healthy and dynamic conference despite difficult economic conditions. Madrid had beautiful spring weather, and a magnificent modern architecture abounds throughout the city. I will say, though, that the Madrid subway does not vibrate (shake, rattle, and roll) one’s soul quite as much as does our local NYC subway.My talk was entitled The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Web. In it,...
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Congratulations to NSF CLuE Grant awardees
Posted on 12:03 by Unknown
Posted by Jeff Walz and Andrea HeldThe first goal of the Academic Cluster Computing Initiative was to familiarize the academic community with the methods necessary to run very large datasets on massive distributed computer networks. By expanding that program to include research grants through the National Science Foundation's Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program, we're also hoping to enable new and better approaches to data-intensive research across a range of disciplines.Now that the NSF has announced the 2009 CLuE grants in addition to some previous...
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Socially Adjusted CAPTCHAs
Posted on 10:58 by Unknown
Posted by Rich Gossweiler, Maryam Kamvar, Shumeet BalujaUnfortunately, there is a war going on between humans and 'bots. Software'bots are attempting to generate massive numbers of computer accountswhich are then sold in bulk to spammers. Spammers use these accounts toinundate emails and discussion boards. Meanwhile humans are trying tosimply create an account and don't want to spend a lot of time provingthat they are not a program. Typically we use CAPTCHAs -- we present an image of some distorted textand then ask the applicant to type in the...
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
The Grill: Google's Alfred Spector on the hot seat
Posted on 11:05 by Unknown
Posted by Ben Bayer, Google ResearchAlfred Spector, Google's VP of Research, tells COMPUTERWORLD the ins and outs of Research at Google and where it's headed for the future. Read the complete interview he...
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Predicting the Present with Google Trends
Posted on 14:10 by Unknown
Posted by Hal Varian, Chief Economist and Hyunyoung Choi, Decision Support Engineering AnalystCan Google queries help predict economic activity?The answer depends on what you mean by "predict." Google Trends and Google Insights for Search provide a real time report on query volume, while economic data is typically released several days after the close of the month. Given this time lag, it is not implausible that Google queries in a category like "Automotive/Vehicle Shopping" during the first few weeks of March may help predict what actual March...
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