Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
Looking Back At One Woman’s Adventure in Computer Science
Wendy Hall, previous president for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in England, ponders on the past and looks forward to the future.
Read MoreSLA Conference Early Bird Deadline is Today
If you haven’t registered for the opportunity to connect with thousands of fellow information professionals, be inspired by their ideas and empowered by the history of the city – today is the last day to do so and qualify for the early bird discount.
Read MoreLibrarians Have Come A Long Way Baby
Regardless of when you went to school, the image that comes to your mind when hearing the term librarian is very similar to mine and everyone else’s. Gray hair, bun, wire framed glasses on a lanyard sitting on the end of her nose and tight pursed lips that you are sure hasn’t smiled in years, if ever. Was I really that far off?
Read MoreSMB IT Budgets Take a Hit
Small and midsize businesses (SMB) consistently struggle with committing to the investment that collaboration projects require. According to InformationWeek research, only one third are increasing their IT spending on collaborative projects, compared to the previous year.
Read MoreNew Tech Projects Get Funding from Harvard Library Lab
The Harvard Library Lab announced its first ten projects. Included in those projects is LibraryCloud, whose goal is to allow access to a wide range of Harvard Library metadata via an application programming interface (API) that would allow developers to create new apps based on the information.
Read MoreTo Really Help a Searcher, Show the Taxonomy
A recent post on a popular taxonomy community website asked for examples of websites that use a thesaurus. The writer was seeking sites that show the user that a thesaurus is being used to direct them from a query word to a taxonomy term. She was looking for a way to support searchers on a company by translating search queries that may be synonyms to terms in their large product taxonomy to deliver content indexed with the preferred term. She also questioned whether the redirection from a query word to a taxonomy term would be clear and intuitive for the searcher.
Read MoreConference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
The Third International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval will take place September 12-14, 2011 in Bertinoro, Italy.
Read MoreFreeing The Data – Trends for the Future
Data is not a singular thing or process. Technology continues to evolve and branch out with highly scalable web search engines, increasingly capable natural language processing technologies, and artificial intelligence. Watson. Need we say more?
Read MoreToo Much of a Good Thing
The media industry isn’t lacking vehicles to deliver news, but sometimes, more is not better. Filters, not apps seem to be in the wish lists of most users.
Read MoreIBM Receives Frost & Sullivan Nod
Frost & Sullivan, famed industry analyst, recognized IBM with the 2010 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Company of the Year. It attributes the honor to their focus on business analytics and corporate vision.
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