Wednesday, November 20, 2002

Amazon hires algorithm guru The online retailer lures a former chief scientist at Yahoo to become its chief algorithms officer, just as the holiday-shopping season is beginning. Amazon.com has named a former chief scientist at Yahoo as its chief algorithms officer. Udi Manber, who also will become a vice president at the online retailer, worked at Yahoo for four years and previously taught computer science at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Arizona. Manber, who has focused on search technology and algorithms, is the author of "Introduction to Algorithms--A Creative Approach." "Algorithms are what make our site run, (and) such a unique place to shop. It's through algorithms that we're able to do things like make recommendations and tell you what customers who bought this item also bought," said Amazon spokeswoman Patty Smith. I love it, I will have to put this on my wish list. 10:27:36 PM   comment []>   MIT wants to build a super database for research papers.  Earth to MIT, give everyone a Radio weblog.  Let them post notes and documents to an Intranet.  Get Google's search appliance and convert all of the documents to HTML.  Save yourself a bundle, let alone the revenue producing discussions browsable open access would enable.  Geeze.  Lead a horse to water schooled in the arts of big cos logic and they will inevitably die of thirst. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] I like the fact that John Robb is an extraordinary advocate for Radio weblog, but I think that the Dspace archive is a good idea.   There is an extraordinary amount of data that needs to be collected and presented.  Even in a blog you want to refer to content stored in other formats in repositories.   Blogs are great for narrowing a persons view on the entire universe of stuff.   I have linked to archival material in my blog.   It also seems to me that documents should be converted to XML not HTML. 9:44:15 PM   comment []>

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