Henrik in Seattle

Research?

November 18th, 2005

I'm currently thinking about trying to get into some kind of research here at the university for the winter and/or spring quarter. My thought is that the credits I get for it would replace one of my traditional courses. It would also be a fun experience, to actually do some real academic research.

I've been talking to (my third interview ([1->The first interview], [2->Amazon.com Interview]) in eight days) one of the people involved with a research project called [KnowItAll->http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/knowitall/]. It is a system which tries to automatically extract huge amounts of information (facts) from the Internet. For example, it could figure out which countries exist in the world, what their capital cities are and their populations, without any human telling it anything about what a country, city and population is, or the relations between them. To use their own words, it's a "a domain-independent system that extracts massive amounts of information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner". I'm not sure yet whether or not they want me involved, but I'll hopefully find out in the next few days.

As a side note: At 6 pm tonight I'm off to my second Ultimate Frisbee tournament. This time the place a bit further away, the city [Eugene->http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Eugene,+OR&spn=0.911361,2.630127&hl=en] in southern Oregon, the state south of Washington. I'll be back after the weekend with a report.

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