Comments on: Search Solutions 2010 – a brief review

By: Ibuildings Blog

Ibuildings Blog — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:27:58 +0000

Search Solutions 2010…

I recently attended Search Solutions 2010, put on by the IR group of the BCS. There have been some excellent roundups of the day already, so I’ll just recap with a bit more on some of the talks that stood out for me. The day was split into four sessio…

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:13:34 +0000

Hi Vishwa, thanks for the feedback and corrections, I’ve updated the post. Hope you won’t spend too much time combatting open source – there’s room for everyone to innovate, no matter what the license! It would be great if you could let the BCS themselves use your slides (even edited) – I know most of last year’s presentations are up: mine is at
http://slidesha.re/a7h7WL
for now.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:19:59 +0000

Sorry, a couple other things:
1) I left a comment here because I couldnt get an email ID, not because I wanted to leave a comment on the blog!
2) I could provide you a copy of the slides, if it is for personal reference. Please feel free to email me if you’d like them.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:17:49 +0000

Charlie,
I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your talk at the Search Solutions event yesterday. For context – I’m Vinay, and I was representing Microsoft, and gave my talk earlier in the day.

As I mentioned in my talk yesterday, I’m a researcher building the relevance ranking model for Microsoft’s enterprise search products. By my own admission, my knowledge of the wider use of these products in the real world is somewhat limited. It is therefore great for me to come to these events, helps me gather more information that will no doubt be helpful in doing my job better.

I have two hats on – as an employee of Microsoft, clearly all this ‘open source’ stuff is something I need to combat! At the same time, I’m a researcher, I’m trying to target the challenge that some of the methods we work on now could become part of the standard off-the-shelf toolkits that others can then build on.

A couple comments:
1) The spelling of my name in your report above: “Vishwa Vinay”
2) Maybe pointing to my current web address: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/vvinay/

Once again, great talk and probably see you around in similar events (or in Cambridge!)

Vinay