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I am a researcher at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) working in the Willow project at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford working with Prof. Andrew Zisserman. My thesis dealing with efficient visual search of images and videos was awarded the Sullivan Thesis Prize and was short-listed for the BCS Distinguished Dissertation award - the prize for the best Computer Science thesis in the UK. Before coming to France I spent six months as a post-doc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William Freeman.
Do we need to stop yapping about backwards compatibility? "It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table"
If you ask most Firefox (Firefox) fans the main reason they won’t switch to Chrome, a good majority of them will probably cite its lack of extensions. But that might change, because Chrome extensions are coming — perhaps soon. And for users of the developer’s build of Chrome, they’re already here. So for those of you brave enough to use the unstable developers release of Chrome, here are 6 extensions that social media addicts will want to install.
Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).
Martha asks a number of questions about RDF in the article. Even the title is a question: "Can Bibliographic data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web?" (Answer: it already is ) Martha is conducting an admirable gedanken experiment about the future of cataloging, creating her own cataloging code and trying to mesh her ideas with concepts coming out of the semantic web community. The article's value is not only in her conclusions but in the questions that she raises. In its unfinished state, Martha's thinking is provocative and just begging for further discussion and development.
Minidetector is a Django reusable app that allows you to know if a request is being viewed on a mobile device. It provides a middleware and a view decorator that sets a request.mobile variable to True if the request is coming from a mobile device. It's method of figuring out if a device is mobile is simple; It first checks for a special Opera Mini header, then for WAP support, then finally checks the User Agent against a list of known mobile strings.
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Pydermonkey’s mission is pretty simple and straightforward: it’s just meant to wrap Spidermonkey’s C API as faithfully as possible—including its debugging API—while enforcing the memory safety that Python is known for. This makes it awfully low-level for casual programmers, but thanks to Python’s awesome support for magic methods, it’s not hard to create high-level wrappers that provide much more convenient bridging between JavaScript and Python code.
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months
When a friend or family member has a birthday coming up what do you do? You go to the local grocery store to find a birthday card? Finding an appropriate card this way can be nearly impossible sometimes. Electronic birthday cards are a wonderful solution.
* Go directly to an event through a custom event URL * Use your existing Twitter account to chat with other attendees during the event * List events that match your keyword interests (coming soon in august) * Find events that match your keywords interests (coming soon) * Link twebevent reminders to your own calendar (coming soon)
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Interestingness is a media (images, videos, etc) ranking algorithm to provide as an additional metric for search results. The algorithm is based upon an algorithm created by the Flickr team, and is further enhanced by metadata knowledge resulted from the Del.icio.us development. The algorithm was first unveiled publicly on Flickr on 2005-08-01.1 SML.SML: Interestingness = f(views, faves, comments, tags, time, user, network relationships); The ranking is based on one or more of the following factors: * the quantity of user-entered metadata2 (i.e. tags) * the number of users who have assigned metadata3 * the number of favorites assigned to the photo4 * relationship between the person who uploaded the photo and the people who are commenting5 * access patterns related to the media object6 (i.e. where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when)7 * a lapse of time related to the media object8 (i.e. velocity of metadata acquisition)
Some shoots coming from our friend Fupete. His first solo exposition in Paris “Jolly Roger” is started at the Since.Upian Gallery till the 9 of the next month.
If Twisted Matrix was implemented in Ruby it would be advertised as the second coming of Christ.
The popular Marvel comics group X-Men series has spawned an ongoing series of film adaptations. See trailers from coming attractions here
The Intel Core i5-750, the company’s new 45nm quad core processor, can be pre-ordered now and will be available on September 8, according to a product page at SuperBiiz.com. The first Core i5 CPU is clocked at 2.66GHz. It has 8MB of cache and a TDP of 95W. The chip is designed for the Socket LGA1156, found on new and already available Intel P55 chipset-based motherboards. The Core i5-750 is priced at $219.99, while the P55 mainboards start at $109.99.
With support in Chrome, Firefox 3.5, Opera, and Safari, HTML 5 is coming at you like a runaway train. Here are some suggestions to help you prepare to get on board rather than be left at the platform or tied to the tracks.
Only Two Weeks Left! By Rhizome on Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 5:00 pm. We are coming into the fourth week of Tiny Sketch, our 200 charact ...
Here is a collection of some testing tools that we have compiled to aid your testing handily grouped into categories. Look out for our reviews of some of these tools coming soon.