NetBase Solutions

Company: NetBase Solutions(formerly Accelovation, Inc)
Location: MountainView, CA
URL : http://netbase.com/
Areas: Search, NLP, Semantic Technologies.

NetBase solutions is another company that seems to be working towards semantic technologies and using them in search.
One of the solutions, content-intelligence is something interesting. As far as my understanding, identification and categorization of entities into many classes drives this whole process. It would be more interesting to see how this is completely used in enriching the user experience and cater the user needs.

Another interesting thing about NetBase is their way of using deep linguistic parsing and that too on billions of documents. Deep linguistic parsing is time consuming nevertheless current trends in cloud computing are one solution to the problem.

The semantic search for health is something that could be useful for everyone. (Cause, effect relationship identification is one problem that should be addressed in such cases. And NetBase seems to have done that.)

Isn't that interesting?

NetBase is a technology partnet for Elsevier and the semantic indexing technology powers illumini8.

PhD Comics - comics in reality

Quite sure, most of the students can closely relate yourself to this 'reality' comic:

The comic is taken from :
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1139

History of Internet and who is going to rule?

1. For readers interested in knowing more about Internet this would be a nice read:
History of internet in a nutshell.

2. And now Google is trying to make the web faster. The new protocol SPDY(SPeeDY) is being tested in the labs.
The documentation can be found here.
Link for the SPDY source code.

What would be impact if SPDY is successful?
Will Google file a patent for SPDY?

watch out ;)

Image search on Blogspot

Issuing a query in google as mentioned in the previous post is most likely to be a query for image search over a set of blogger(blogspot) images.

Though the recall of the system if very less.
I took an example to see if the system is searching blogspot images:
I have this image on blogger
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRBwG-JEIzHUfRRvYzbw7gMk4V9LZr5K0An70X-2k5LVQPBt72_iDVkWd7EDTL4o1G_2xyiOGE-q68QdnAiLFqpN0EUiFOtEM3G7icRCxPTMkUdir4lYRt1yLpqk3GvZJmzDpGhb0FNmk/s1600-h/sollu.jpg
which is uploaded on the http://medhatithi.blogspot.com/2009/05/reunion-at-jan-pashas-wedding.html

Querying google with site:2.bp.blogspot.com sollu didn't show up the actual image.

Hacking into gmail for images????

Try out querying google with the query: The number 2 can be substituted by any digit(1,2 or 3)
site:2.bp.blogspot.com mail

What can we infer from the results?
1. Is it a hack(:P) showing images from others gmail accounts?
2. Is it just showing images that link to a blogspot account?

Let me know if you know anything about this, would like to learn more about this.

Thanks in anticipation.

The brain behind 'Quick Sort'

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, the developer of the Quick Sort algorithm, talks about some of his ideas in an interview.

He also speaks about the projects that he is involved with at MSR, Cambridge.
The full article can be found in CACM here.

I like that.....,I like that......

This is about a posting about Ph.D studentship in Sentiment Analysis at University of Wolverhampton. The complete job posting can be found here.

There are two reasons behind writing this post.
1. The deadline for receipt of an email is 30 November, 2009. Candidates selected for further consideration will be sent a reply email within 48 hours of the receipt
of their original email. Non-receipt of an email means that you have not
been shortlisted.

These are few lines verbatim from the posting.
Getting a reply within 48 hours of mailing them and "non-receipt of any such reply implies that the candidate is not shortlisted" is something that caught my attention. I rarely see such people/organizations which at least specify what time you can look for a reply(positive or negative) from them. ( People who have faced the problem of not receiving a reply after applying would appreciate this kind of posting. )
:)

I think job ads of such type would draw great attention from the applicants.

2. Students who are working on summarization may find this demo link useful to carry out few experiments by tweaking some parameters.
There are other demos too.

I would appreciate the job posting and also the idea of the providing demos for experimentation.

Transliteration now in Mobiles :)

Transliteration is an interesting problem and Tachyon known for Quillpad has now targeted the mobile market.

Was expecting this from Tachyon but this was a bit early than I expected.
More about the release here.
The application is just 355KB and this is something interesting.

Recent workshop on Transliteration is here.

tachyon technologies

Company: tachyon technologies
Located In: Bangalore and Chennai.
URL: http://tachyon.in/
Areas: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Programming Language Design.

The site design is in itself something different.
Quill pad and team talk are two products from the company.

More details about Tachyon's Team Talk can be found here.

Intelligent, smart Engines

Here is a small conversation between Inferno and me.

Me: Hey, buddy! What would intelligent, smart, search engines look like?
Inferno: They are the ones that can understand the user's information need, also take into account the current trends blah blah blah..... and give results.
Me: That is good to hear. But could you give an example so that I can have a better understanding?
Inferno: Hmmm! That's something like this. You query with the phrase 'hiring again'
and the so called "intelligent, smart search engines would suggest you "firing again" as the correct query.

Me: That is something interesting. :) .
Inferno: I understand, I know ;)

Kernel level overtake:
User commands disabled
Shutting down Audacious.
Praneeth, Now get back to work.

Me: ..........
..........
...........

Inferno is intelligent too......

Software That Fixes Itself :O

Just read an article "Software That Fixes Itself" -
A new tool aims to fix misbehaving programs without shutting them down.
This is part of the research work at MIT carried out by the research group headed by Martin Rinard, a computer science professor at MIT.

A nice read...

If you are interested more, this is the paper about the system.