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June 29, 2008 (18y ago)
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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner is a computer scientist specializing in information extraction (also known as "text analytics"), search engines/information retrieval, geo-spatial processing (GIS), automatic question answering and mobile applications.
  1. On Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) (bit.ly)

    Some thoughts on "little languages" and their role in the software process.

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  2. Jeopardy update: IBM educates market, Watson performance (jochenleidner.posterous.com)

    IBM is playing Jeopardy, or rather it is letting a cluster of 3000 machines play. Here's an analysis what IBM gets out of it, on the business side and on the technical side.

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  3. Time Management (post.ly)

    Time Management: How to Avoid Fragmentation and Distraction

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  4. Machine Learning with Orange (post.ly)

    The Orange open source toolkit combines machine learning with pre-packaged algorithms and Python "hackability"

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  5. Academic Search Engines (post.ly)

    A little post about vertical search engines dedicated to support researchers in their hunt for papers.

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  6. HadoopCentral: The need for a MapReduce code repository (bit.ly)
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  7. Reflections on SICP (post.ly)

    Four types of abstraction are the magic spells that the aspiring computer scientist needs to know, and SICP/6.001 taught them using Scheme.

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  8. Where should our energy come from? (bit.ly)

    Cambridge physicist McKay computed that the average person in the UK spends as much energy as 125-135 light bulbs (on all the time). But where should that energy come from?

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  9. Google and Innovation: Analysis (bit.ly)
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  10. Review of Peter Seibel's book "Coders at Work" (bit.ly)

    Peter Seible, author of Practical Common LISP, has interviewed 15 programmers...

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  11. Is Your Blog Being Censored? (bit.ly)

    Did you think that state censorship affects just a few corporate entities in China? Not so. Here's how you can find out whether your blog can be read from China or whether it is blocked by government censorship.

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  12. Software Tools for Debating, Argumentation and e-Democracy (bit.ly)

    In democracies, participation in the political process is now possible online, but that requires some tool support. Ideas need to be shared, votes have to be cast, petitions have to be filed and debates have to be…

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  13. Cloud, Grid, or Cluster? Clarifying the Terminology of Distributed Computing (jochenleidner.posterous.com)

    As distributed computing is becoming mainstream, a lot of people throw around terms like "cluster", "clouds" or "grid" as if they were interchangeable. Here's an attempt to see through the terminological confusion.

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