Written by Alexander Raginsky Google is making a major update to its mobile search algorithm that will change the order in which websites are ranked when users search for something from their phone. The algorithm will start favoring mobile-friendly websites (ones with large text, easy-to-click links, and that resize to fit whatever screen they’re viewed on) and ranking them
Written by Alexander Raginsky We seek a limited number of student volunteers for the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technology. Volunteers are assigned one full day’s work. The work will be divided, probably into two half-day shifts, and the shifts will be scheduled to maximize volunteer access to
Written by Alexander Raginsky First Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas, Urbana-Champaign, IL, May 10th-15th, 2015 Grants For Students We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of student bursaries to enable students new to the field to attend the marathon. These bursaries are aimed principally at first year PhD students or equivalent, who don’t have
Written by Alexander Raginsky 1st Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language 2015 (iV&LSS 2015) 1?4 June 2015, University of Leuven, Belgium Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) – Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data About iV&L Net: The
Written by Alexander Raginsky NAACL – HLT 2015: Call for Student Volunteers OTHER STUDENT VOLUNTEER PROGRAM NAACL-HLT 2015 We seek a limited number of student volunteers for the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics – Human Language Technology. Volunteers are assigned one full day’s work. The work will be divided, probably into
Written by Alexander Raginsky Dear colleague(s), I would be grateful if you could please kindly forward the message below to (undergraduate) student mailing lists and/or associations at your site (computer science and/or linguistics and related disciplines). If you would even be willing to print out and display a small poster, it would be fabulous — you can download it
Written by Alexander Raginsky Robots are doing more of the work in warehouses and factories than ever before, but there are still things humans do better. At Amazon’s massive warehouse facilities, human hands are still the ones picking up and packaging the items you order, but maybe not for long. An upcoming robotics competition run by Amazon’s Kiva Systems
Written by Alexander Raginsky 26.03.15 – EPFL spin-off Lemoptix SA has just been acquired by Intel, the US microprocessor giant. The value of the acquisition has not been made public. Lemoptix has developed a miniature projection system used in many applications, including virtual-reality glasses. Lemoptix, a 40-employee company, has just been acquired by Intel Corporation for an undisclosed sum.
Written by Alexander Raginsky AUSTIN, Texas, Apr. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Austin-based Risk and Compliance management Software Company 360factors developed a software solution that is cloud-based, simple and cost-effective to meet the compliance needs of small and medium-sized banks. Once considered cost prohibitive and restricted to large banks, 360factors makes this innovative technology available to small and mid-sized banks
Written by Alexander Raginsky Summer School in Corpus Linguistics: Tools and Applications This event will cover the latest developments in corpus tools and corpus applications through an intensive programme of interactive sessions to be run by leading figures in the field. It will provide participants with in-depth knowledge of cutting-edge methods and techniques for undertaking advanced research. trent_students_466x335 Summer
