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For something that may have technically happened six weeks ago, it certainly set the press buzzing. Then again, how often does a 26-year-old graduate student working on his PhD in Australia get hired by the world's best-known search engine? And that for his work on an algorithm that many insist will revolutionize search?
Anyone who has been covering search engine news for a while will tell you that claims of revolution are usually (though not always) overblown. See the word "revolution" paired with search technology and you'd be smart to mentally substitute "incremental improvement." But even that much holds the promise of making search faster, easier, and more accurate – and that's a big help when you spend a lot of time searching.
So who is this graduate student, and why is Google so interested? His name is Ori Allon, and he hails from Israel. When Google found him, however, he was working on his doctorate at the University of New South Wales. A press release from the university dated September 2005 describes the technology, dubbed the Orion search engine, in far more detail that Allon is legally permitted to go into now. Though employed by Google, he can't even reveal his job title.
So what could a graduate student working for a year in a fourth-floor room with five servers accomplish? Allon came to Sydney to work on a project run by Dr. Eric Martin, of the university's computer science department. Martin's project aimed to build a better search engine. And according to the scientist, "What others would have taken two or three years to do, [Allon] did in six months."
The project is supposed to be finished sometime in the next 12 to 18 months. The university will retain ownership of Orion, because it was developed within its PhD program. It will probably receive royalties from Google for licensing the technology; some analysts figure it could run into the millions. Nobody really knows how much because nobody who has information about the actual deal is talking.
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It's all about letting the user find out for himself what is most relevant. The Orion search engine hunts down pages where the content covers a topic that is strongly related to the searched-for keyword or phrase. It returns a section of that page. If it did a really good job, a searcher might find the answer to a question right in that section of text, without having to visit the site itself.
That's only part of what Orion does, though. It also lists other topics related to the keyword, letting the searcher choose ones that are most relevant. If any particular broad topic is like a tree, related topics are branches off that tree, and Orion can help a searcher find the twig they were looking for – or even get a better picture of the whole forest. The university's press release about the technology describes it as "offering an expert search without having an expert's knowledge."
It then provides an example that many of our readers in the United States should be able to relate to from their elementary school days. "Take a search such as the American Revolution as an example of how the system works. Orion would bring up results with extracts containing this phrase. But it would also give results for American History, George Washington, American Revolutionary War, Declaration of Independence, Boston Tea Party and more. You obtain much more valuable information from every search."
You can easily see how this kind of search engine would save a lot of time. How many times have you found yourself clicking through to a website to find your answer, not finding it, then clicking back to your search results to find a site more likely to contain your answer (and repeating this process several times)? Rather than going through that process, Orion could give you all the answers you need to a query on one page. And if your answer isn't right on that page, you still have the option to click through to the site itself. The expanded extracts from the websites should give you a good idea of where to go to get that answer.
It's not perfect, of course. As already mentioned, it's not quite ready for prime time yet. And by its very nature, Orion is likely to work better for people looking for information rather than something to buy. Then again, content is supposed to be king online, right? Even if it doesn't revolutionize web searching, it just might revolutionize homework, as students find the answers to their questions online a lot faster and easier.
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Licensing the technology to Google, after also being reportedly courted by Yahoo! and MSN, is not a bad return on investment. The project itself was funded by a $150,000 grant from the Australian Research Council. And I have to give them credit; you really need to know how to read the academic language to find the promise in this project.
It was titled "RichProlog, a System for Deducing, Inducing and Learning in the Declarative Programming Paradigm." And I know I could never work for the ARC now. The project aimed to "contribute to bridge the gap between learning and logic, theoretically and practically," "extend considerably the scope of the declarative programming paradigm" and "build a system that can be used to solve learning or discovery problems as encountered in Artificial Intelligence." Only the third statement suggested something related to search engines to me, which probably means I should stick to reporting this stuff rather than trying to write a search engine (or a letter requesting a grant, for that matter).
The return on that $150,000 investment could mean a steady stream of royalty payments the University of New South Wales if Google actually incorporates the technology into its search engine. Some analysts think the Orion technology could indeed become the basis for the next generation of search engines. The idea is that it will improve not only the relevance of the results, but give searchers a better idea as to whether those particular results have the answers they need, thanks to the more detailed sample of each file.
This has certain implications for web publishers, one of which I already mentioned – the likelihood that searchers will have less need to visit the website that has the information they need. When asked about this point in an online interview, Ori Allon gave a thoughtful response. "This is a very good question. I don't envision that Orion will completely eliminate the need for going to actual web pages but rather expedite the search process. It could also result in the user going to more web pages since they will be alerted to other keywords related to their search."
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Allon has been quoted as saying that Orion would improve "the speed and focus of internet searches with is, as we all know, an invaluable service." That much is obvious, and probably reason enough for Google to latch on. But there are other points to consider here.
Think for a moment just how wonderful a search like this would be when going through books. It's practically designed for anyone looking for information rather than, say, the website of a particular company. When you add in the fact that it turns up related keywords and topics, you have the makings of a good research paper assistant. Given that Google is working on a project that involves digitizing the content of many volumes of books, you can see how this kind of algorithm would be immensely helpful.
That helps the academic community, but there are also good, commercial reasons for Google to want this technology. If it has the side effect of making people stay longer on Google's site, rather than clicking off to find their answers, then Google can serve more ads. Remember that well over ninety percent of Google's revenue comes from advertising.
While MSN and Yahoo! have portals with their own content to help make their sites "sticky," Google doesn't have a portal unless you've customized the home page (though it certainly has a variety of services, from groups to blogs to email, and more coming out every day). As one analyst wondered, "Could Google be looking to create a mega-site that could provide the answers – and the information – to absolutely anything?"
You probably think that sounds a little grandiose. But remember the search engine's mission statement: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Licensing the Orion technology could bring Google one step closer.


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Fulbright grant enables research, teaching in Costa Rica
Greenville furniture maker and ECU alumnus Stuart Kent '08 returned last month from a year-long teaching and research project in Costa Rica underwritten by a Fulbright Core Grant.
He worked as a visiting assistant professor of sculpture at the National University of Costa Rica in Heredia. He taught workshops on wood joinery and finishing, and helped develop a curriculum for furniture design.
The project raised awareness of two species of sustainable, tropical hardwoods. Kent organized exhibitions to demonstrate possible uses for these two trees.
Since returning to the United States he has worked to connect timber growers in Costa Rica with American lumber dealers, opening a viable path to market for a cost effective and sustainable new raw material. Kent also organized the nation's first major international public art event, after which the works by artists from seven nations were donated to the city of Heredia.
Kent was assisted in his work by his wife, Susan Kent '04.

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Goalkeeper: Johan Welch, U-15 Pre- Academy
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Defender: Alejandro Dominguez, U-14 Pre-Academy
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Defender: David Brown, U-16 Academy
This is David's second TOTW nomination in the same number of weeks. The steady center back is not only in fine form, but his fine form coincides with the U-16's fantastic start to the second half of the season.
Defender: Alejandro Saez, U-14 Pre-Academy
Alejandro is the second Alejandro from the U-14's to be named to the TOTW this week. He, aswell, was part of a rigid back four that made the lives of the opposing forwards very tough.
Defender: Noe Ochoa, U-15 Pre-Academy
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Midfielder: JP Nava, U-13 Pre-Academy
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Midfielder: Giandemir Jaen, U-14 Pre-Academy
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Hello, all. I've been a long time off/on lurker of this site, but just registered yesterday. I'm 43, happily married and raising 3 kiddos - two teenage boys (one with autism, who lights up our lives - wouldn't change him for the world), and a 10 year old daughter. I love being a mom - and I am trying to raise my kids to be independent, critical thinkers.
My background: as a young child (10 and under) my family casually attended a local lutheran church. I don't remember much about it except for the services being excruciatingly long and boring. I never listened to a thing, I daydreamed the whole time.
Went to confirmation classes for 2 years, again - didn't listen - it was a bunch of "blah blah blah."
But then, in the 6th grade, my parents decided to enroll me in private school (the local public school was going "bad" in their opinion). The only one they could afford was baptist. And by that I mean southern baptist ((shudder)). I don't think they had a clue what that would entail. If so, I'm quite sure my father wouldn't have sent me there. He has passed away, but in hindsight I'd say/guess he was a deist.
In any case. From day ONE at said baptist school - the indoctrination began, and it scared the ever-living SHIT out of me. Unlike my lutheran experience, these baptists took this shit seriously. Maybe the lutherans did too, but I don't remember. I just remember that bible classes were a daily part of school from 6th-12th along with weekly chapel services.
Day one I "learned" that god was "omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent." As if that wasn't scary enough I also learned that the only way to avoid burning in hell was to accept jesus christ as my personal lord and savior, after of course confessing that I was a rotten sinner and begging forgiveness. That he loved me sooooo much that he died for me, but if I didn't actually believe that, and ask him into my heart, I would go to hell.
Shortly after starting that school, I would ask jesus into my heart EVERY SINGLE NIGHT for years - because I was terrified I wasn't doing it right, and that I would burn in hell. As I got older and started attending youth night with friends at the huge mega church that started our school, the whole jesus thing got even more intense. It was weird because the services there were quite moving, and I highlighted my Bible to pieces (well the NT anyway) and tried to be a "good christian." Because I never felt I could live up to that expectation, I was filled with a lot of self-loathing.
Fast forward to college. I went from goody-goody to completely out of control WILD pretty much immediately. Freed from the bonds of the baptist school, I went nuts. I won't go into details, they are not pretty. Yet I signed up for the students for christ club and did weekly bible studies. And just kept praying for forgiveness, all the time. This was a very unpleasant experience - guilt and shame galore.
I would go through periods of trying to be a good christian and then "backsliding" as they say - back and forth back and forth. It was exhausting. I am embarrassed now to admit that I did not question the bible at ALL. It was so hammered into me that the bible was the "inerrant" word of god, every word "god-breathed" -that I just did not question it. I focused on a few touchy feely verses from the NT and ignored the rest. After all, i was told, it was the NT that counted - don't worry about the OT (except for the Psalms and Proverbs - those apparently were still relevant).
Fast forward to post-college, early marriage and motherhood. I did the back and forth church thing for YEARS (never again baptist though!! by then I hated them) - just going through the motions - but realizing that in my heart I knew the baptists were totally wrong about the inerrancy of the bible. The older I got, the more I loathed the baptists and their beliefs.
So I tried to find a "moderate" church. I remembered my early lutheran experiences as pretty mild, so I did that - off and on - dragging husband and first child when he was a baby. Then got sick of church and skipped it for YEARS.
Fast forward to roughly 2010 - I hit an extremely rough patch in my life - and I needed help. I decided god was the answer. Not the crappy mean baptist god, but a "kinder, gentler" god. I admit it: I wanted a close, personal, invisible friend who would love me unconditionally who I could pray and talk to all day.
I read a zillion christian books aimed at women - Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, Stormy Omartian (?), etc. - they soothed my hurts and wounds and made me feel like Jesus could really help me. Their words honestly felt like a lifeline, and I dove into it.
But during all of this I just couldn't shake the feeling it was fantasy; I realized how illogical and, well, stupid it all was - I just knew it wasn't real - but ohhhhhh how I wanted it to be real! I wanted SO badly for it to be real - I needed the comfort of it. But my brain just kept saying "this is bullshit, and you know it." I kept trying to ignore my rational side but thankfully it eventually won….
At this point we were going to a local lutheran church that I was discovering fast was in no way like my "mild" one growing up. We had 2 of our kids in sunday school and my oldest son in confirmation classes. Our middle child (with autism) stayed with us.
I started feeling really bad about what they were learning - really bad. I knew it was a bunch of baloney but I felt like it was my duty to raise my kids the christian way. Just writing this out makes me feel like such a dumbass.
Anyway….I have to give my oldest son some serious credit. And maybe myself as well. You see, I homeschooled him from kindergarten through 5th - NOT for religious reasons - for other reasons (not the time/place to discuss here). To MY credit I used secular materials. Anyway - my overwhelming goal was to teach him to love learning, to question EVERYthing, to never take what anyone said at face value, including his father and I. It was SO important to me that he be a critical thinker. How ironic that I was doing my best NOT to be, lol. Talk about a living, breathing hypocrite!
OK so we had him enrolled in confirmation classes. I'll never forget the day I was chatting with the youth minister who led the classes. He said, "you know, your son sure asks a LOT of questions. He puts me to the test and I admit he asks a lot of things I cannot answer."
I have never in my life been so proud of my son.
It was shortly after that I learned that they were teaching my son pretty much what the baptists had "taught" me - and I knew then and there I did NOT want my kids exposed to that kind of god. They also taught creationist theory of the world. Which I cannot believe anyone can do with a straight face, but I digress.
We slowly just stopped going to church.
We (my husband and I) started having long conversations with our older son about religion. I started reading Bart Ehrman (bible scholar who has written books about bible inaccuracies and such) and as many books as I could to truly educate myself on biblical history and the history of christianity.
What I learned blew me away. And took away my last shred of hope of ever believing in biblegod. I couldn't fake it anymore. The toothpaste was out of the tube.
I shared what I learned with my son. We both share a love of reading and delving into history.
I told him I was sorry for putting him through confirmation, and I promised him there was no such thing as hell, there was no devil out to get him etc. etc. He said he already knew that, lol.
My other kids I didn't necessarily have to work on - my middle son has pretty severe autism, and he stayed with his father and me and brought headphones to listen to music because he couldn't handle the crowds at church. My youngest, my daughter - well at that point she was like 7 or 8 and they still were just doing coloring book and craft things in sunday school. So I figured just quitting church would be enough to end any indoctrination.
I hope so.
I did tell her many times that there was no hell, no devil, and to never believe anyone who tried to tell her that.
So I found this site many moons ago while doing extensive research on the history of the bible and christianity. I have learned SO much here.
I started reading Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris. I was hooked. Not yet an atheist though. I still clung to the idea that there HAD to be a god.
I searched to find a "religion" I could feel good about - one that had nothing to do with revealed religion or biblegod. So I decided last year I was a deist.
But now I think I am an agnostic atheist. I guess. I really don't know what I believe and that's partly why I'm here.
I know what I do NOT believe - which is any revealed religion or biblegod or desert god or what have you. I believe the bible is a fable book written by misogynistic, racist, homophobic, back-asswards men.
I sorta miss being an ignorant christian though. It was sooooo comforting to believe that I had a personal supreme being friend who loved me unconditionally, who created me out of love, knit me in my mother's womb (see Psalms) and so on. Who would see me through any challenges. I feel so stupid to admit that I miss that - but I do. But once you know, I mean, REALLY know, that it's a bunch of bullshit, you just can't go back. It's impossible.
My main problem is overwhelming guilt that I took my children to a church for two years that taught the whole heaven/hell/creationist stuff. I'm embarrassed and ashamed that I put my kids through that. I'm also humiliated at all the times I went into my closet, got down on the floor and cried my heart out to god to help me.
In my heart, I don't want to be an atheist. I mean absolutely NO offense to atheists, I have the utmost respect for that - I just yearn for there to be something out there greater than us. Frankly it terrifies me to think we are just an accident of nature. Why that scares me, I do not know. So I go back and forth between feeling deist and weak atheist.
So that's me. Happy to be here, eager to learn.
P.S. I cannot figure out how to get an avatar - I keep going to my profile to see if I can add one, but I don't see that option. I also searched the information part of the site, no dice. Any help on that would be great, thanks.
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I have no hopes of B. happening. I have a little bit of hope of A. happening. And I will be pissed if C. happens because that would still be "wasting" a 1st round pick (as some call it) that we will have to sit whichever QB would be available and then our core of young talent is all 3 to 4 years older by that time. Not many QBs come in and start from day 1 and have great NFL careers. For those that would rather draft a guy in rounds 4, 5, or 6 and have him sit the bench, the success rates of those guys isnt very good either.
I doubt Stafford is available at 10. If Sanchez is, I grab him. Sit him a year behind Hill. Start him in 2010. Solidify the QB position. Then I'd worry about finding a RT, FS, or NT. Which I'm pretty sure there is a greater chance of finding a successful NFL player at those positions after round 1, then there is of finding a successful QB after round 1.


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Joaquin wants to go to the party
Last month Joaquin Phoenix told Interview Magazine that he thought the Oscars were full of sh-t. Click here for a refresher. At the time he was considered a strong contender for a Best Actor nomination and many believed those comments f-cked up his chances.
Now Joaquin is not exactly backtracking but...clarifying those comments, telling Australia's The Age that:
"I know that first of all, I wouldn't have the career that I have if it weren't for the Oscars. I haven't been in a lot of movies that have made a lot of money … And getting nominated for a movie has probably helped my career tremendously. 'I guess I sound like a dick. 'You know what it's like? You sit and you bullsh-t for a couple of hours. You just miss so much of what someone says when it's written down …. Come on, man, you know that it's more complex than that. It's not like I f---ing hate the Oscars … It doesn't occupy my time to where I can build up hate. 'What I was reacting to was sometimes the reverence that we have about these things. I don't want to revere it.''
And apparently at a presser at the Hollywood Foreign Press for The Master, it was a "humble" Joaquin who insisted that he did not mean to insult the Academy. So... did Harvey Weinstein threaten to end his career? Or has Joaquin decided that he does want to go to the party after all?
I believe him when he says he doesn't care about the awards. Not the way, say, someone like Ashley Greene cares about the awards. Or even Daniel Day-Lewis. DDL wants that award. But for Joaquin, at this point, it's probably not so much about the award than it is about realising that his nomination honours the project, and therefore the people with whom he worked on the project, including PT Anderson and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and he has expressed overwhelming admiration and respect for both.
As for whether or not his name will actually be called among the five -- I would say yes. He was extraordinary in the film, almost uncomfortably so. And besides, I imagine there would be a few actors in the actors' branch either fond enough of him to put his name forward for a nomination or maybe just to f-ck with him too, knowing he'd then have to spend the season in a tuxedo being screamed at by photographers.
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A few weeks after MTV aired an episode of the Jersey Shore, which showed Snooki relentlessly trying to have sex with her costar Vinny, the pint-sized reality star is now expressing regret at her actions.
In a new radio interview with SiriusXM's Morning Mash Up, Snooki, 23, reveals her multiple failed hookup attempts with Vinny Guadagnino is one of her biggest regrets.
"I kind of wish me and Vinny didn't try and have sex because it was just drama this whole season," she explained. "And I don't know, it was just awkward between us and then I felt stupid…it's just embarrassing." Yes Snooki, it was also embarrassing to watch.
Snooki adds that while she developed feelings for Vinny, those feelings were not reciprocated. "I kind of got feelings [for him]," she said. "But for him, he'd be like, 'No, it's another girl.'"
In other Shore news, just two days after MTV confirmed season 4 of Jersey Shore will indeed film in Italy, some are now wondering whether Ronnie Ortiz-Magro will be able to leave the country to film.
The reason? Ronni was recently indicted by a New Jersey grand jury on an assault charge stemming from a past episode of the show. A spokesperson for the Embassy tells RadarOnline, "Persons who are currently in the criminal process cannot by issued a Visa." Adding that "any person applying for a Visa to Italy must have their case fully adjudicated."
Ronnie's manager Matt Cohen however sees things differently as he tells Radar "as of now, he is free to travel wherever he chooses and has a clean criminal record." Matt adds, "Until he is actually convicted of a crime, he can go wherever he wants."
And finally, on tonight's all new episode of Jersey Shore, appropriately titled 'Drunk Punch Love," Ronnie and J-Woww make amends, which sends Sammi over the edge, resulting in her punching Ronnie. Meanwhile, Mike uncovers Deena's dirty little secret; and Vinny goes out with a girl who has an overbearing family.
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