turing's early and rejected paper about learning and the mind. some say it was darwin's grandson, who didn't like what he read and who rejected the paper: but was it intelligent machinery, a heretical theory? yet at the turing archive they say it was a lecture given 1951.

in this posthumous essay, turing contends that it may be possible to construct a machine in which there would be an element of randomness and an analogue of the pleasure principle of psychology, that could be taught, and that could eventually be more intelligent than humans.

one may pick computing machinery and intelligence, 1950 (well, at that time darwin's grandson wasn't any longer director at npl). others may also choose intelligent machinery, listend under "unpublished manuscripts and drafts", no dates given ...

asked one of the rumour chaps for clarification. let's see ...

if i would be in nyc at the end of feb. i would wanna listen to: human voice in a |not so| new world.

levels of meaning and expressivity for the human voice through technology | nmr

2009 versus 1939 how to speak

sitting in a room with a lot of information and interesting people, yet they stay silent. most of the time. left with the feeling i just got to hear the tip of the iceberg. 09wsdm, a split-off of the www conference serial, i was told (this year in madrid), reminded me that there are real world problems of all sort to dig for information. someone told me he spotted greg linden, so i hoped he would write a summary. guess i have to wait.

susan dumais from ms research does interesting work and is quite a source of information.

from her and her colleagues studies you can learn that for more than 40% of clicks don't lead to satisfaction.

ranking: date by far the most common sort field. 50 - 80% of page visits are re-visits | thinking outside the (search)box

google is aiming to translate any language on the web. well, this reminds me of the discussion of arial and unicode: 50.000 glyphs are enough. anyhow, it has been a long time i have heard someone from google excepting questions after his/her talk. a tip of the hat to jeff dean.
interesting historic parts in his talk about the history of google and the development of its data centers: if you have to update that many machines do it at once and not partically; if something goes wrong you harm less people this way.

yahoo is into translating, too. mostly aiming for the ads market.

privatized search has been a topic. take a look at j. teevan, s. dumais and d. liebling: to personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent.

just realized that i missed the "best student paper" by eytan adar, who worked on zoetrope, teevan, dumais and jonathan l. elsas. well, the paper is online. | via jeff dalton