From sunblock to softblock: Analyzing the correlates of neology in published writing and on social media. Maria Ryskina, Matthew R. Gormley, Kyle Mahowald, David R. Mortensen, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, ...

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I am fascinated about the idea of building intelligent systems that can help humans (and why not, other intelligent agents) on their daily tasks. This goal is ambitious, challenging, inspiring, and ...

William Cohen is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Machine Learning Department. He also holds a 20%-time appointment as a Principal Scientist at Google, where he worked full-time ...

RIP "finger": the Unix command "finger" shows if a user is logged in, or else displays their "plan" file, with contact info. It used to be connected to the web, but that turns out to be dangerous.

[ Contact ] Noted for his contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering, Nyberg holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992 ...

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department and (by courtesy) the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, leading the CORGi research group. I ...

--ACM's most prestigious technical award is accompanied by a cash prize and presented to an individual/s selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The ...

I'm a Professor Emeritus at the Language Technologies Instutute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I'm a part of the Carnegie Mellon Speech Group, one of the oldest such ...

Sparse matrices, which are common in scientific applications, are matrices in which most elements are zero. To save space and running time it is critical to only store the nonzero elements. A standard ...

Reliable markerless motion tracking of multiple people participating in complex group activity from multiple moving cameras is challenging due to frequent occlusions, strong viewpoint and appearance ...

While at DARPA, I was unable to write for my blog. But watch this space for new posts, as soon as I get settled at Microsoft.