Comments on: SIGIR 2009: Day 3, Industry Track: Vendor Panel http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/08/03/sigir-2009-day-3-industry-track-vendor-panel/ Mon, 21 May 2012 05:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/08/03/sigir-2009-day-3-industry-track-vendor-panel/comment-page-1/#comment-4107 Daniel Tunkelang Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:58:19 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=2392#comment-4107 Adam, thanks. For those of you who aren't long-time readers, I wrote this "<a href="http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/07/02/a-call-to-action/" rel="nofollow">call to action</a>" over a year ago as an open letter to the leading enterprise providers and industry analysts in the information access community. At the time, I thought I was being hopelessly idealistic. My goal wasn't to run an event like the SIGIR Industry Track, but simply to ensure that something like it existed and that major industry players would participate in it. But I suppose someone had to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_the_cat" rel="nofollow">bell the cat</a>, and I'm glad I had the chance to help turn some of that vision into a reality. It's funny: on the bus to the banquet (the night before the conference), I happened to be sitting next to Jay Aslam, and I asked him what it was like being co-chair of a SIGIR conference. When he started describing how putting it together was a multi-year endeavor, I said: "I'll stop whining now." I'm lucky that this event and the HCIR workshops have been a cakewalk by comparison! Adam, thanks. For those of you who aren’t long-time readers, I wrote this “call to action” over a year ago as an open letter to the leading enterprise providers and industry analysts in the information access community. At the time, I thought I was being hopelessly idealistic. My goal wasn’t to run an event like the SIGIR Industry Track, but simply to ensure that something like it existed and that major industry players would participate in it. But I suppose someone had to bell the cat, and I’m glad I had the chance to help turn some of that vision into a reality.

It’s funny: on the bus to the banquet (the night before the conference), I happened to be sitting next to Jay Aslam, and I asked him what it was like being co-chair of a SIGIR conference. When he started describing how putting it together was a multi-year endeavor, I said: “I’ll stop whining now.” I’m lucky that this event and the HCIR workshops have been a cakewalk by comparison!

]]> By: Adam Ferrari http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/08/03/sigir-2009-day-3-industry-track-vendor-panel/comment-page-1/#comment-4104 Adam Ferrari Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:52:53 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=2392#comment-4104 Thanks for organizing such a great event, Daniel. As I said at the panel, and as we’ve discussed privately many times, events like this, which create the opportunity for collaboration between the IR research community and the fast-moving commercial technology category that is enterprise search, are long overdue. I’m grateful to the SIGIR organizers for having the wisdom to incorporate an industry track into the event, and equally glad that they saw fit put it in your exceptionally capable hands (in my equally unbiased opinion; P.S., you’ll find that I signed your most recent expense report this morning). Thanks for organizing such a great event, Daniel. As I said at the panel, and as we’ve discussed privately many times, events like this, which create the opportunity for collaboration between the IR research community and the fast-moving commercial technology category that is enterprise search, are long overdue. I’m grateful to the SIGIR organizers for having the wisdom to incorporate an industry track into the event, and equally glad that they saw fit put it in your exceptionally capable hands (in my equally unbiased opinion; P.S., you’ll find that I signed your most recent expense report this morning).

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