Does Everything Really Sound Like Coldplay?
If you have a feeling that all roads somehow lead to Radiohead, you’re not alone. Oscar Celma, my friend and former colleague at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, successfully defended his PhD thesis on music recommender systems the other day. The thesis, titled “Music Recommendation and Discovery In The Long Tail”, sheds new light [...]
Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search Demo at FASTforward’09
A Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search demo is being presented by Conchango on FASTforward’09. Richard Wand writes about their efforts to create a playful search experience, using Microsoft’s new multi-touch screen-table-surface technology. Words like engaging, social and entertaining are not often used to describe enterprise search solutions. So what is different about this demo? Update: A [...]
