AcademTech - Faceted Expert Search
My faceted expert search prototype, AcademTech is now live.
AcademTech is a computing science-specific expert search engine based on the Terrier IR Platform. Persons working at computing science departments in Scottish universities are considered as candidate experts by the system. Profiles of their expertise evidence are then minded from their homepages, publication BibTeX retrieved from DBLP and Yahoo! BOSS snippets.The system is integrated with a novel faceted search interface to allow users to browse and explore using a number of categories.
I was lucky enough to be able to demo this site at the ACM SIGIR conference yesterday in Boston. Thankfully it went well, recieving some great feedback.
Give it a look : http://www.terrier.org/academtech
New Laptop - The Setup
I bought a new laptop yesterday I intend to turn into a development beast. Here’s my setup.
- Notepad++
- Subversion w/ TortoiseSVN
- Eclipse Galileo (yoxos distro) - Java EE, JME, PHP
- Visual Studio 2008
- GhostDoc
- Resharper 4
- TestDriven.NET
- NUnit
- Firefox: Firebug, Web Developer toolbar, YSlow
Youtube to Drop IE6 Support
With a high percentage of businesses still using IE6 this news could upset many bored employees who slyly sneak in viewing of keyboard cat, incredible ultimate fails, sneezing pandas. Here’s hoping said employees push bosses to adopt modern browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, even IE8 would do. With IE6’s compatibility issues, security vulnerabilities and lack of a decent javascript engine, this move by Youtube will be welcome news to developers who have long been trying to encourage users to upgrade inorder to make their job a hell of a lot easier.
On another slightly related note I bought a new Samsung N110 netbook yesterday preloaded with XP SP3 including IE6. Therefore I’ve just been sold a device targetted to avid surfers, which is out of the box incompatible with some of the biggest sites on the web.
Going to be special
