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Semantics Web

The business of algorithms

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Algorithms are big business. Recently I’ve seen several jobs where the company wants someone who is “…good with algorithms”. Microsoft is competing with Google is competing with Yahoo to hire the best algorithm wranglers (which evidently, according to the article, does not mean women). IBM is releasing it’s unstructured data architecture (UIMA), including it’s […]

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Diversity

Sigh Friday

But I don’t knit. I agree with Lauren. Sigh. Other good takes on the interview: Home Cooked: “What these comments consistently fail to do is explain why women’s activities have been forced to take place in the realm of the domestic, and how their talk has been dismissed as trivial compared with the seriousness of the […]