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CS 6604: Recommender Systems (Spring 2001) |
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| Topic: Technology |
12:10 am EDT, Jun 28, 2002 |
In Spring 2001, Virginia Tech professor Naren Ramakrishnan taught an entire course on the topic of recommender systems. Here you can browse the syllabus, review slides from the lectures, and review the reading list. Course overview: CS 6604 concentrates on algorithms, methodologies, systems, and larger-scope issues (economic, commercial etc.) pertaining to reducing information overload. The unique aspect of this course will be how it integrates ideas from diverse areas: numerical analysis (strange but true), information systems, human-computer interaction, and algorithmics. Over the past three years, a large body of literature on recommender systems, filtering, and personalization technologies has been developed. Even though the field is driven by commercial trends and industrial developments, many of the ideas are nearing a stage of stabilization when their use is becoming common place (textbook material). CS 6604 will help illustrate the interplay between these different areas and demonstrate how ideas from diverse backgrounds can be combined in novel and sophisticated ways. CS 6604: Recommender Systems (Spring 2001) |
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Philip K. Dick's Mind-Bending, Film-Inspiring Journeys |
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| Topic: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Literature |
11:04 am EDT, Jun 17, 2002 |
To call Philip K. Dick, whose 1954 story "The Minority Report" is the basis for the new Steven Spielberg movie, a science-fiction writer is to the underscore the inadequacy of the label. Dick, who died of a stroke in 1982 at 53, was fascinated by the scientific future largely as a vehicle for examining his own anxieties, longings and unstable perceptions. It would be more accurate to call him one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century. ... Thinking about these ideas can make your head hurt, which is true of virtually all of Dick's 36 novels and more than 100 short stories: mind-bending was almost his religion. Calling himself a "fictionalizing philosopher," he began with an assumption that causality is a shared delusion and that even concepts like space and time have a limited basis in reality. "Minority Report" (opening Friday) stands as the most fluid and conventionally exciting of all the Philip K. Dick adaptations. Philip K. Dick's Mind-Bending, Film-Inspiring Journeys |
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Henry David Thoreau Quotations - The Quotations Page |
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| Topic: Miscellaneous |
7:53 pm EDT, Jun 7, 2002 |
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
Henry David Thoreau
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau Thoreau rulez! Henry David Thoreau Quotations - The Quotations Page |
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| Topic: Science |
5:51 pm EDT, May 3, 2002 |
Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Destroy HIV Virus Interesting approach here... Hurry up and wait 3 years for trials/maturity... AIDS cured? |
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