SECTION: Features
Learning Analytics: An Opportunity for Education
How analytics is transforming the future for millions of learners.
By Ryan S. Baker, April 2023
Articles Tagged: Information retrieval
Articles & Features
DEPARTMENT: Hello World
The Inexplicable Efficacy of Language Models
By Rachith Aiyappa, Zoher Kachwala, April 2023
Sorry kids, Iron Man's superpowers aren't unique
By Lara Zupan, Marinka Zitnik, November 2015
Hidden Genes: Understanding cancer data with matrix factorization
By Marinka Zitnik, July 2015
Dynamics of news from the New York Times
By Marinka Zitnik, October 2014
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High-performance computing and the cloud
Infrastructure clouds offer tremendous potential for scientific users, however, they face numerous challenges that must be addressed before they are widely adopted by scientific communities.
By Paul Marshall, Henry Tufo, Kate Keahey, March 2013
Dream applications of verifiable computational results
A new system allows researchers to discover, reuse, cite, and experiment upon any computational result that is published with a Verifiable Result Identifier.
By Matan Gavish, David Donoho, Amos Onn, March 2013
Sketching and streaming algorithms for processing massive data
The rate at which electronic information is generated in the world is exploding. In this article we explore techniques known as sketching and streaming for processing massive data both quickly and memory-efficiently.
By Jelani Nelson, September 2012
Taming big probability distributions
New algorithms for estimating parameters of distributions over big domains need significantly fewer samples.
By Ronitt Rubinfeld, September 2012
Big data platforms: What's next?
Three computer scientists from UC Irvine address the question "What's next for big data?" by summarizing the current state of the big data platform space and then describing ASTERIX, their next-generation big data management system.
By Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Chen Li, September 2012
Interactive analysis of big data
New user interfaces can transform how we work with big data, and raise exciting research problems that span human-computer interaction, machine learning, and distributed systems.
By Jeffrey Heer, Sean Kandel, September 2012
Big data in computational biology
An invitation to the digital science of life.
By Cliburn Chan, September 2012
SECTION: Features
Recent ideas for circumventing internet filtering
Technical solutions can provide a skeleton key to unlocking the Internet.
By Dan Boneh, December 2011
Fighting censorship with algorithms
By Mohammad Mahdian, December 2011
Profile Luis von Ahn
By Robert J. Simmons, December 2010
Are your friends who they say they are?
How sure are you that your friends are who they say they are? In real life, unless you are the target of some form of espionage, you can usually be fairly certain that you know whom your friends are because you have a history of shared interests and experiences. Likewise, most people can tell, just by using common sense, if someone is trying to sell them on a product, idea, or candidate. When we interact with people face-to-face, we reevaluate continuously whether something just seems off based on body language and other social and cultural cues.
By Roya Feizy, Ian Wakeman, Dan Chalmers, December 2009
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, June 2009
LibraryThing
By Anna Ritchie, June 2009
An overview of privacy preserving data mining
By Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. Verykios, June 2009
AmazonViz
This article describes a technique to visualize query results, representing purchase orders placed on Amazon.com, along a traditional 2-D scatter plot and a space-filling spiral. We integrate 3-D objects that vary their spatial placement, color, and texture properties into a visualization algorithm. This algorithm represents important aspects of a purchase order based on experimental results from human vision, computer graphics, and psychology. The resulting visual abstractions are used by viewers to rapidly and effectively explore and analyze the underlying purchase orders data.
By Amit Prakash Sawant, Christopher G. Healey, Dongfeng Chen, Rada Chirkova, March 2009
Exploring global terrorism data
By Joonghoon Lee, December 2008
Digital blasphemy
By Cara Cocking, December 2008
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, June 2008
Information superwhichway?
By Craig Pfeifer, June 2008
Using perception in managing unstructured documents
By Ching Kang Cheng, Xiaoshan Pan, October 2005
Using the web to enhance and transform education
By Michael Hulme, Michael Locasto, September 2003
Cookies
By Michael Nelte, Elton Saul, September 2000
Book review: information storage and retrieval systems
By Robert Korfhage, July 2000
Charlotte
By Stuart Patterson, June 2000
A bibliography manager for Microsoft Word
By José H. Canós, June 2000
Web review: W3C, the World Wide Web consortium
By Kim Moorman, November 1999
XML: the future of the Web
By John B. Bedunah, November 1999
Networks and distributed systems: introduction
By Kevin Fu, November 1998
Road crew
By Saveen Reddy, December 1994