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Society of the Query #2 Program booklet

By vince, October 31, 2013

The program booklet for the conference is ready! You can check out the full program, details about the speakers and their presentations, as well as the lovely design by our partners, Studio Inherent. You can download the booklet from here. Enjoy and see you next week!

Russia challenges Google and Yandex by unveiling plans for a new search engine called “Sputnik”

By vince, October 15, 2013

The world is familiar with Sputnik as being the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. But this time, the famous name is being used for another ambitious project that competes with the US industry – a search engine that would challenge Google and even the local Yandex. The project comes [...]

Facebook now supports search within the timeline

By vince, October 10, 2013

It is becoming more and more obvious that Facebook wants to have a piece of Google’s cake. Not long after Facebook’s newest updates to its Graph Search, the social query tool is getting yet another refresh. In a recent blog post, Facebook just announced that users are now able to search for “status updates, photo [...]

Data drive series kicks off with Siva Vaidhyanathan and Adam Florin at the University of Amsterdam

By vince, September 19, 2013

Siva Vaidhyanathan and Adam Florin were invited to speak at the University of Amsterdam on September 17 for the Data Drive event which is the first in a series of lectures organized by Robin Boast, Jan Hein Hoogstad and Sander van Maas. Data Drive aspires to be a research program that delves into the intersections [...]
Albert Einstein was quoted for saying “Never memorize something that...

Google is knowledge. Yay or nay?

By vince, August 30, 2013

Albert Einstein was quoted for saying “Never memorize something that you can look up”. Of course, at that time, looking up something meant actually going through books and finding information. Nowadays, with Google being a few keystrokes away, not knowing something means you simply have to “Google it”! But is the act of using a [...]