This Saturday on NPR’s Weekend Edition, there was an odd little piece about a study performed by Duke University about people’s reaction to logos (click here to listen; click here to read a text article about the same study). It said that being exposed to the Apple logo – so briefly that they couldn’t even […]
Oooh…an XML fight! 04-Apr-2008The world does seem to love an XML fight. Yesterday Microsoft scored a goal by getting their OOXML standard ratified as an international standard through ISO (International Organization for Standards) — a definite point score, since there were many other parties fighting tooth and nail to prevent this happening. OOXML is an […]
Powerset is a Silicon Valley company building a transformative consumer search engine based on natural language processing. Our unique innovations in search are rooted in breakthrough technologies that take advantage of the structure and nuances of natural language. Using these advanced techniques, Powerset is building a large-scale search engine that breaks the confines of keyword […]
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The $220 Camhandle looks like a tripod handle gone AWOL from its tripod. Its attachment plate bolts to the underside of the camera, and it hangs off the left front side. It looks goofy, but it works surprisingly well. I tested it for two weeks on the notoriously hard-to-handhold PMW-EX1. Construction The Camhandle is comprised […]
While in college and majoring in broadcasting (of all things), I spent a great deal of time learning about the bias of News reporting. In summation, we learned that personal biases will creep no matter how hard you try to avoid them. While PVC is not a forum for Political banter, nor should it be, […]
BRUSSELS – ADAM Software (www.adamsoftware.net ) has signed a partner agreement with the US-Dutch system integrator HintTech (www.hinttech.com). This agreement strengthens ADAM’s presence on the US-market and brings major content management knowhow into the partner network of ADAM Software. ADAM Software & HintTech have agreed to train a relevant number of HintTech .NET professionals on […]
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Slideshow are currently running a series called Visual Thinking. And , well, it gets you thinking. [slideshare id=96516&doc=visual-thinking4267&w=425] […]
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 http://blog.semantichacker.com/?cat=3 TextWise Semantic Signatures® are based on vector spaces with thousands of dimensions, each corresponding to a single concept in some domain of interest. We use a special semantic dictionary to map the content of a given text document into a point within that conceptual space; and one can then gauge […]
