From an Oracle News Release: On October 18, 2011, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Endeca, a leading provider of unstructured data management, web commerce and business intelligence solutions. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of 2011. After the transaction closes, [...]
Google's Peter Norvig Talks Search Algorithms and AI in a New Interview
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Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research, talks with Eric Enge from Stone Temple. Excellent read. Here’s a bit from the intro of the interview. Enge Writes: As you will see in the transcript below, this discussion focused on the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in search. Peter outlines for us the approach used by Google [...]
United Nations: Department of Public Information Launches Enhanced Web Site
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From UN Pulse: The Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, Kiyo Akasaka, is pleased to announce the launch of the new, multilingual DPI website, which can be found at http://www.un.org/en/hq/dpi. As news sources proliferate, stories “go viral” on social media and user-generated content spreads instantly around the world, public information and communication are ever more [...]
Wired Campus: Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration
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By Jennifer Howard via Wired Campus/COHE: From the Article: Big-scale collaborations and digital-era collection strategies took center stage at the Association of Research Libraries’ membership meeting, held here last week. The library directors and others who attended heard about ambitious research and preservation projects like the HathiTrust digital repository and the proposed Digital Public Library [...]
