During the ceremony Norvig will also interviewed on, among others, data science, open data en science challenges for students.
The three master students won the award for their contribution in the contest: Show what you can do with 6 billion webpages. In response they developed a system, entitled Traitor, enabling a linking of words that can be frequently found in a sentence or article, to improve search engine results. Take 'Microsoft', which can be linked to 'Office' en 'Windows' while 'Apple' gets associated with 'iPad' en 'iPhone'. In the next step, Traitor then compares between 'Microsoft' en 'Apple'. Answering the question what Microsoft has got and Apple lacks, the system responds 'SQL', for example. To the question, what (Bill) Gates has got and (Steve) Jobs doesn’t it replies 'Melinda', who is Gates’ wife. Interested in attending this event? Send an email to [email protected]to register.
