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Day 2/7: 7 B&W photos of your life. No people, no caption. Challenged by @AnnaPriante@twitter.com (aka @apriante).

Final grades and extensive feedback for is now available on Canvas. Let me know if you want to discuss your paper.

Students who received a grade of 9: I invite you to send the paper to a workshop, if you are willing to use the feedback to improve the paper. If the paper is accepted, the university will cover costs of travel to, and participation in, the workshop. Please contact me if you would like to submit.

Happy holidays everybody.

Day 1/7: 7 B&W photos of your life. No people, no caption. Challenged by @AnnaPriante@twitter.com (aka @apriante).

Follow @arjen de Vries to get fully up-to-date with the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.

(is it already Friday somewhere on earth?)

Applause for #SIGIR decision to make proceedings open access all the time!

Thanks, @kresin, for the Citizen Sensing book!

Where "Smart City" approaches present risks in terms of privacy, dependability, ownership of data, and ultimately of democratic control, Citizen Sensing offers decentralized alternatives that put the citizen in control.

Familiar sight on the Volkskrant web page. Good usage of a stock picture, @utwente is one of two universities in the Netherlands that I know off (together with WUR) that immediately looks and feels like a university

mastodon.utwente.nl/media/uPjE

That warm fuzzy feeling you get when a #Harvard professor you follow on twitter follows a #LateStageCapitalism account

Dear all, just wanted to push this forward maybe there are students or post-docs interested in job positions in field close to research... In the company I am working (Fincons, finconsgroup.com/IT-Innovation) we are hiring one R&D SW Engineer in Lugano (Switzerland) but also 2 NLP and Text Mining experts for working at the JRC in Ispra (ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/about/jrc-) - drop me a line or CV in PVT if interested...

Good morning mastoverse! Remember, if you're no longer taking exams, your professors and TAs are still busy grading them.

(from: phdcomics.com)

This is the second time a fitness tracker company has leaked the information of military personnel. The issue is bigger than one product and one category: data is precious and handled shoddily.

pcmag.com/news/362318/polar-fi
#infosec

wow this site with current state of the art results for a bunch of nlproc tasks is super helpful and interesting github.com/sebastianruder/NLP-

Great first day of SIGIR 2018. Enjoying catching up with folks I've not seen for a year.

I just picked up my master thesis from the printers ๐Ÿ˜ฌ