Thursday 28 February 2008

Soddisfazioni


Sopra uno dei palchi più belli e importanti di Milano (l'Auditorium), davanti a più di 1200 paia di occhi severi, diretti dal maestro Mantanus tanto giovane quanto capace (nonchè gnocco, garantiscono contralti e soprani) abbiamo eseguito un'opera bellissima (la Messa in Sol del mio adorato Schubert) accompagnati alla grande dall'orchestra "Verdi per Tutti".

Uno dei momenti più memorabili da quando sono entrato nel Coro dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca.

E quando è partito il credo...

Tuesday 5 February 2008

Natural language web searches, ProLog and my constant lateness

During the last three months I studied logical programming, focusing on ProLog, and thought that it could be interesting to use its powerful deductive capabilities to improve web searches, making them more logical and natural.

I googled a bit and discovered that, as always, there's someone who's developing in that direction: Powerlabs is a San Francisco company, working on a search engine based on natural language processing; they're trying to push web searches further the "simple" matching of keywords.

Actually, I don't have any idea of the languages and algorythms they're using (I just read they're seeking RoR programmers for the front-end... GOOD!), but the idea is quite similar. Are they gonna be next Google?