Slow Searching

Another prediction for how artificial intelligence will impact 2050:  People won't own cars . Most people expect that in 35 years,...

Yesterday I attended a Microsoft Research meeting on artificial intelligence, where, in addition to discussing a number of grand challen...

The year 2014 marks the first full calendar year in existance for the Slow Searching blog . In the past twelve months I have written 54 p...

This post summarizes the research I published in 2014. The work divides roughly into three components covering: 1) slow search, 2) crowds...

A Crowd of Your Own: Crowdsourcing for On-Demand Personalization Peter Organisciak , Jaime Teevan , Susan Dumais , Robert C. Miller , ...

The Related Work section of an academic paper is often the section that graduate students like writing the least. But it is also one of ...

Each of us individually create a huge amount of data online. Some of this data we create explicitly, such as when we make webpages or pub...

The research studies I posted last Friday about the role gender plays in the STEM workplace paint a consistent picture: women face signi...

Science Faculty’s Subtle Gender Biases Favor Male Students by Corinne A. Moss-Racusina et al. In a study with 127 science faculty at re...

   Doug Oard at the Information School at the University of Maryland is teaching an open online course on information retrieval th...