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NASA announced a spacecraft that purposely slammed into the moon has turned up evidence of water.
NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month.
The LCROSS probe impacted the lunar south pole at a crater called Cabeus on Oct. 9. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface in an effort to create a debris plume that could be analyzed by scientists for signs of water ice. Read more…
The 3rd International Conference on Business Intelligence and
Financial Engineering (BIFE 2010)
Hong Kong, August 13-15, 2010
http://www.gip.hk/bife2010/
(Papers Due: March 10, 2010)
Accepted papers will be published in the conference Read more…
Lire – Lucene Image REtrieval 0.5.4 descriptionLire, the Lucene Image REtrieval library is a simple way to create a Lucene index of image features for content based image retrieval (CBIR).
The used features are taken from the MPEG-7 Standard: ScalableColor, Read more…
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original papers, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of Read more…
There are several billion images indexed in Google Images. Are yours there? If you’ve been wondering what it takes to get your images ranking, then this article is for you. Here are some tips to help you increase the exposure of your images, and with a little luck, have them appearing at the top of the regular web search results. Read more…
Call for Papers
16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010)
July 25-28, 2010
Washington, DC Read more…
In his keynote at the Search in Social Media workshop at CIKM, Andrew Tomkins suggested that there is plenty of room for academic IR research progress in social media. I happen to agree.
Community generated content has been all the rage for a few years: blogs, Wikipedia, online forums, twitter, Yahoo! Answers, and the list goes on. Many of these generate a large volume of archived data — some in the form of more or less polished documents, like a blog post or Wikipedia article; Read more…
