In December 2004, CS Ph.D student Oren Kurland gave invited talks at IBM Haifa, Bar-Ilan University, and the Technion. He spoke on "Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval", a SIGIR 2004 paper co-authored with CS Professor Lillian Lee.
CS Professor Jon Kleinberg's work on hubs and authorities, as well as the search engine Teoma's follow-on implementation are discussed in a recent article in SIAM News, November 2004 article on the history of web search, "The Ongoing Search for Efficient Web Search Algorithms". Sample quote from Jon: Google's "plain face hides a monster of ever increasing complexity".
http://www.siam.org/siamnews/11-04/websearch.pdf
In an article on the Small-World Instant Messaging system TRN's "Top Picks of 2004", quotes CS Professor Jon Kleinberg.
See http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/071404/Messenger_taps_social_nets_071404.html for more information.
Jon Kleinberg gave a talk on "Bursts, Cascades, and other Temporal Phenomena in Information Networks" in the MIT Dertouzos Lecturer Series last week. This is the second talk in a row by Cornell faculty: Dan Huttenlocher spoke on "The Computer Science of Computer Vision" in April.
"The Dertouzos Lecturer Series has been a tradition since 1976, featuring some of the most influential thinkers in computer science, including Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, Donald Knuth, John McCarthy, and Mitchell Kapor", according to http://www.csail.mit.edu/index.php .
Excerpt from Dan's abstract: It has been forty years since the first attempts to build computers that see. In limited domains such as industrial inspection and optical character recognition, computers now not only see, they often do so more reliably than humans. Computer vision techniques have also found considerable use in areas such as digital video and computer graphics. Despite these successes, research in computer vision has focused more on formal models than on computational questions. As a result, many computer vision techniques are not efficient enough to compete with ad hoc approaches in practice. |
Excerpt from Jon's abstract: The working metaphor for the Web in its early days was that of a 'universal encyclopedia,' a repository containing vast amounts of human knowledge. More recently, our view has shifted to incorporate more dynamic forms of information and a more explicit 'time axis' -- the Web as a current-awareness medium, supporting on-line news, chat, discussion, commentary, and emerging media such as weblogs. |
| A long article appeared in Technology Research News : http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/111704/Software_sorts_out_subjectivity_111704.html |
| and a shorter version at MIT's Technology Review magazine http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/rnb_111604.asp?p=1 |
An excerpt from the longer article:
Longer-term, they are aiming to develop methods that can handle variations in language, said Lee. "This is very important in dealing with on-line text, since Internet sources can very widely in form, tenor and even rammaticality," she said. "One can get reviews from the highly-edited New York Times or from a stream-of-consciousness The ultimate aim is to be able to handle rhetorical devices like irony and sarcasm, said Lee. "Given that even humans are occasionally misled by such rhetorical devices, this is going to be very challenging," she said. People are incredibly creative at expressing negative opinions, said Lee. For example, this sentence not only contains no obviously negative words, but has a lot of potentially positive words: "If you think this laptop is a great deal, I've got a nice bridge you might be interested in." |
CS Professor and Dirctor of the Information Assurance Institute spoke at a workshop entitled "Definitions, Myths and Realities of Cyber Terrorism" at Cornell on November 11.
For the complete story, you can read the Cornell Daily Sun article at http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/12/419446620aff2
In his address, Lehman proposed creating a new facility, to be completed within the next five to six years, solely for the field of computing and information science.
| For more information on the University's plans, you can read the Cornell Daily Sun article at http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/01/4185cbd2459cd , |
| or the article for the Ithaca Journal at http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20041030/localnews/1506319.html |
| The President's full address can be viewed at http://www.cornell.edu/president/speeches_2004_1029.cfm |
Carla Gomes was quoted in the Chicago Tribune as a speaker at the inaugural event for the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO),
Northwestern University.
See http://www.cis.cornell.edu/iisi/news/index.cfm for more information.
Carla Gomes and Bart Selman received the Distinguished Paper Award at the 10th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004) for the paper entitled "Statistical Regimes Across Constrainedness Regions."
Form more information on the 10th International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP-2004), go to http://ai.uwaterloo.ca/~cp2004/
Cynthia Dwork, PhD, from Microsoft Research will speak at 7 pm next Thursday, November 11th, in Ballroom B of the Statler Hotel.
There is a pre-talk reception with food and refreshments beginning at 6:30 pm in the Ballroom Foyer.
Her talk is part of the second annual Distinguished Career Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of Computer Science.
For more information, go to http://www.cs.cornell.edu/rsvp/dwork.htm
