by Martin White | Nov 14, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Research, Search
The Search Solutions 2023 Conference is just over a week away and there is still time to register for what is a unique conference. Although many academic conferences have an Industry Day this tends to be an opportunity for search software and services vendors to talk...
by Martin White | Aug 9, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Search
The annual BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) Search Solutions 2023 event will take place in London on 22 November. This is the only conference in the world that sets out to bring together academic and practitioner perspectives on information discovery....
by Martin White | Feb 23, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Research, Search
In my post on the Alan Turing Institute Foundation Models event I noted that the event had helped me develop a list of issues that were not discussed at the event. This is not a criticism of the event – the event could easily have run to three days and still there...
by Martin White | Feb 23, 2023 | AI Governance, Conferences, Research
This symposium, organized by the Alan Turing Institute, was held at the IET, Savoy Place, and attracted around 350 delegates, including what seemed to be the entire UK machine learning research community. There were seven presentations and a panel session that I was...
by Martin White | Nov 25, 2022 | Conferences, Search
After lunch Farhad Shokraneh gave a quite impassioned paper about the problems that systematic searching gives rise to in a paper entitled ‘Futures of Systematic Searching’ in which the plural was not a spelling mistake! Farad started out describing the process of...
by Martin White | Nov 25, 2022 | Conferences, Search
Search Solutions is managed by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society and is the only broad-spectrum search event outside of the USA. The conference was held at the BCS London office on 23 November, preceded by a day of Tutorials....