Archive for November, 2009

Literature Review 2008 – 2009

Friday, November 6th, 2009

The research we do at Helioid involves a lot of reading. With some notes and summaries included, here is a list of the literature we’ve focused on from 2008 to 2009:

Machine Learning

G. Lebanon, Y. Mao, and J. Dillon. The Locally Weighted Bag of Words Framework for Document Representation. Journal of Machine Learning Research 8 (Oct):2405-2441, 2007.

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How Helioid Benefits Users

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The simple answer to how Helioid benefits users is that Helioid represents information and information navigation in a more efficient manner. This gets a complex when looking at how each individual uses the internet and searches for information, but still the core is the same. A current issue with web search, as Google’s Marissa Mayer explains, is that it is undeveloped and not advanced, “Think of it like biology and physics in the 1500s or 1600s: it’s a new science where we make big and exciting breakthroughs all the time.”

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