Over the last week we had our off campus meeting with a lot of communication training (very good and fruitful) as well as a special treatment for some PhD students called “massage your diss”. I was one of the lucky students who were able to discuss our research ideas with a post doc and other …
Month: March 2012
Paul Wagner and Till Speicher won State Competition "Jugend Forscht Hessen" and best Project award using neo4j
6 months of hard coding and supervising by me are over and end with a huge success! After analyzing 80 GB of Google ngrams data Paul and Till put them to a neo4j graph data base in order to make predictions for fast scentence completion. Today was the award ceremony and the two students from …
Why Musicians should have a Bandpage on Google Plus!
The following info graphic for businesses was released by Chris Brogan and demonstrates quite well why musicians should get on Google Plus and how to use it. It is released under a creative commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Very good work!
Google Video on Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries by Lars Hellsten
Amazing! Today I had a discussion with a coworker about transparency and the way companies should be more open about what they are doing! And what happens on the same day? One of my favourite webcompanies has decided to publish a short video taken from the weekly search quality meeting! The proposed change by Lars …
Related-work.net – Product Requirement Document released!
Recently I visited my friend Heinrich Hartmann in Oxford. We talked about various issues how research is done in these days and how the web could theoretically help to spread information faster and more efficiently connect people interested in the same paper / topics. The idea of http://www.related-work.net was born. A scientific platform which is …
Related work of the Reading club on distributed graph data bases (Beehive, Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs, memcached)
Today we finally had our reading club and discussed several papers from last week’s asignments. Before I give my usual summary I want to introduce our new infrastructure for the reading club. Go to: http://related-work.rene-pickhardt.de/ There you can find a question and answer system which we will use to discuss questions and answers of papers. …