Socks and Sandals

Wow, that was a really great conference. I met a bunch of people there, saw a few I already knew from other fields and listened to some great talks. I wasn’t sure if I was going to feel that it was good enough to entertain thoughts of hitting next year’s conference in Beijing, but now I just might.

Also, I saw some more good talks yesterday:

Scaling Up All Pairs Similarity Search

Exposing Private Information by Timing Web Applications

On Anonymizing Query Logs via Token-based Hashing

Those are just some that were really good. I also have a stack that I want to read but who’s talks I missed. I’ll post the pics I took with the phone when I get off this damn airplane.

I’m here at WWW2007 and so far its been really good. Here are some of the better papers I’ve seen so far:

Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering

Navigation Aided Retrieval

I wanted to see these, but missed them:

Visibly Pushdown Automata for Streaming XML

CSurf: A Context-Driven Non-Visual Web-Browser

The hallway and evening beer conversations have been really great, as well. And, of course, the view’s not bad, either ;-) I can’t send the pics from my phone while I’m here in Canada, but I will post some when I get back.

Tomorrow, I’m headed up to the 16th International World Wide Web Conference in Banff, Canada. If anyone’s going to be around, look me up and we can get together for some coffee/drinks/etc. I’ll be there all week. Hope to see you there :)