Over the last weeks there was quite some quality programming time for me. First of all I built some indices on the typology data base in which way I was able to increase the retrieval speed of typology by a factor of over 1000 which is something that rarely happens in computer science. I will …
Year: 2012
Foundations of statistical natural language processing Review of chapter 1
Due to the interesting results we found by creating Typology I am currently reading the related work about query prediction and auto completion of scentences. There is quite some interesting academic work available in this area of information retrieval. While reading these papers I realized that I am not that strong in the field of …
Neo4j based Typology also awarded top 90 at Google Science fair.
Yesterday I shared the good news about Till and Paul who have been awarded one of the top 5 projects at the German federal competition Young scientists. Today the good news continues. Together with more than 1000 competitors they did also submit the project to the Google Science Fair. And guess what! Google likes graph …
Typology using neo4j wins 2 awards at the German federal competition young scientists.
Two days ago I arrived in Erfurt in order to visit the federal competition young scientists (Jugend Forscht). I reported about the project typology by Till Speicher and Paul Wagner which I supervised over the last half year and which already won many awards. Saturday night they have already won a special award donated by …
Stealing music is bullcrap and not acceptable!
After a series of successes of the German pirate party in elections there came up a big discussion on the German web about copyright in the publishing industry. see for example: we are the creators we are the citizens and I am the bad girl even new collecting companies (as competitor to GEMA) are about …
Smartphones of Policemen could give criminals a competitive advantage
If I were a criminal I would create a smart phone app which would give me the possability to geographically and socially track policemen. Here some background on this thought. Yesterday I was sitting in the German summit on “Facebook Goolgle & Co – Chances and Risks” (which I will blog about soon) But today …
How Tim Berners Lee told me in front of thousand people: “Go geek and do it”
I am at www2012 conference and after the keynote by Neelie Kroes there was a panel discussion with her, Tim Berners Lee and Gille Babinet. The discussion was about the question “Weather access to an open internet should be a human right?” Clearly knowing where I am standing on this issue (yes it should be!) …
Keynote on www2012 by Sir Tim Berners Lee
disclaimer: this is a very sloppy summary of the keynote speech of Sir Tim Berners Lee. It is neither spellchecked it was taking as notes while sitting inside. I hope I find the time after www2012 to go over it and improve it. take aways Decentralized design that is very important. and if you talk …
Reading Club on distributed graph db returns with a new Format on April 4th 2012
The reading club was quite inactive due to traveling and also a not optimal process for the choice of literature. That is why a new format for the reading club has been discussed and agreed upon. The new Format means that we have 4 new rules we will only discuss up to 3 papers in …
PhD proposal on distributed graph data bases
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 …