Menzner, T. and J. L. Leidner (forthcoming) "Bias-Mitigating News Search with BiasRank" www.insticc.org/node/Technic... Proc. KDIR 2025, Madeira, Spain, Friday, October 24th, 10:15-11:15 #newsbias #bias #propaganda #counterpropaganda #search

The German states with the most right-wing crimes are: Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 7,1 crimes [per 100.000 inhabitants]), followed by Thuringia (Thüringen, 6,3), Hamburg (6,2), Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt, 5). #nationalsocialism #neveragain #crime

Reiche, M. & J. L. Leidner (2025) "MANDALA.ML: A Life Cycle-Centric and Role-Aware Methodology for Agile Machine Learning Projects" Proc. 24th International Conference on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques (SOMET 2025), Kitakyushu, Japan, September 23-26, 2025

The winner of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is again St. Petersburg State University! ZH: Beijing Jiaotong(3)/Tsinghua(4)/Peking(5) US: Harvard(6)/MIT(8)/.../UMD(14)/ASU(17)/CMU(19) EU: Zagreb(4)/.../ #programming #competitions

Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky

R.I.P. Elizabeth "Liz" D. Liddy www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/c... #people #research #obituaries

"Bound for glory": Yourshire's largest bookshop in a former youth hostel contains Richard Axe's life work in book collecting www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richar... #bookshops #books #UK

Dear Anonymous: when we submitted, we actually thought "At least it's very well written..." ;-) - but thanks for the ticket to Spain, anyway - it feels good to see the dice in our favour ⚄ ⚄ ⚃ ⚄ ⚂ ⚄ ... #conferences #research

If anyone asked me what the best part of ACL 2025 was for me, then it was Kathy McKeown's emotional accpetance talk. "The [ACL] Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon Kathy McKeown, in recognition of her 43-year career marked by outstanding...#research" Source: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

The history of the #Python programming language - a documentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

code.golf - who can write the shortest code?

"The 15-Year-Old Who Discovered the Law of Primes" - a pristine didactic gem explaining the Prime Number Theorem & the hunt for number theoretical truth from Euclid to Hadamard and Poussin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJa... #Gauss #mathematics #numbertheory #primenumbers #primes

Davis et al. (2024) "Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis" BMJ: 55 / 186 = 30% of DSM board members have industry conflict of interest

Take advantage of our conference offers for the Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea until September 26. Apply code 102501 at checkout: cup.org/3JrLsc2 #SLE2025

One of few alternative models of computation discovered/invented around the same time - the other ones being Post production systems (Emil L. Post, 1943) and untyped lambda calculus (Alonzo Church, 1936 - Turing's thesis supervisor). It is striking how elegant they all are.

Reiche, M. and J. L. Leidner (2025) "Welcome to the Team: Chat Agents for Machine Learning Project Management Support", Proc. IntelliSys'25, vol. 2, LNNS 1567, 448-469. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #chatbots #RAG #evaluation #benchmarkdata #projectmanagement #datascience #virtualcolleague

While this is a good move for the UK and for the EU, it does not motivate the UK to take further steps towards re-joining. I beleve the European way is all-in or all-out, not each cherry picking from a menu only the things that benefit them.

satya.. this is not okay. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Japan’s copyright law allows AI developers to train models on copyrighted material without permission...The law does not, however, allow for wholesale reproduction of those works, or for distributing copies that will “unreasonably prejudice the interests of the copyright owner.” buff.ly/spT466P

#AI pushes entry salaries down, experienced salaries up: cdn.prod.website-files.com/6660a5bfdcf6... #work #jobs #salaries #technology

Next year's (2026) NLP/IR/ML #conferences in EMEA: • ECIR'26 Delft, NL - ecir2026.eu • EACL'26 Rabat, MO - coming soon... • LREC'26 Palma, ES - www.elra.info/lrec2026/ • ECML'26 Naples, IT - ecmlpkdd.org/2026/ #research #language #langtech #machinelearning #search #AI #EMEA #ML #IR #NLP #NLProc

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

#EACL and #LREC have my name on it (and #ECIR in Delft, of course)

Download the #Ecosia search mobile app for... ...Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... ...iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/ecosi... #search #ecology #sustainability #web-search #www #mobilesearch

New paper accepted: Reiche, M. and J.L. Leidner (2025, to appear) MANDALA.ML: A Life Cycle-Centric and Role-Aware Methodology for Agile ML Projects, The 24th Int. Conf. on Intell. Softw. Method., Tools & Techniques (#SOMET 2025), Kitakyushu, Jap., Sept. 23-26 www.i-somet.org/somet2025/ #publications

Law360 mandates reporters use AI “bias” detection on all stories www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/law3... #bias #news #neutrality #impartiality #ai #artificialintelligence

Because Monday was Bloom Day...: Sylvia Beach interview on James Joyce and Shakespeare & Company (1962) www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Zb... #joyce #ulysses #dublin #paris #books

Ironically, Wikipedia already lists "Iran" as the winner of the war that Israel has just started (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...).

If Iran already had nuclear weapons, I doubt Israel would have attacked it. Mutually assured destruction is nasty, and I won't call it a "peace guarantor", but at least it has ensured the absence of outright war between the US and UdSSR/Russia for many decades.

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT-like models versus real science chomsky.info/20230503-2/ #AI #science #language #linguistics #psychology

Size doesn't protect from greed and incompetence. This is not the freelancer's fault that "wrote" it (had it generated), but the manager's fault who set things up to print without fact checking.

The end of journalism? #chicago #news #fakenews

Good in today's mess there is one left to speak with moral clarity. We all know who is meant here (hint: not Donald Duck!). You cannot be MAGA and MCGA ("make Christianity great again" by humbly serving the Lord Jesus Christ) at the same time; so make your choice.

UK, France and Canada take the lead criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza and West Bank, economic sanctions begin (noted: silence from German. US and Chinese governments) www.gov.uk/government/n...

Back happy but exhausted from a very productive networking session in Strasbourg; now it's time to build consortia for Horizon Europe. #europe #research #EU #EC #horizoneurope #AI

2nd AI4AILearning WS proceedings are out (open access): Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on AI for Artificial Intelligence Education (AI4AI Learning 2024). Ute Maria Schmid, Jochen L. Leidner, Michael Kohlhase, u. a. (eds.), Bamberg Univ. Press, fis.uni-bamberg.de/server/api/c... #AI #education #CAL #CSEDU

solar.lowtechmagazine.com - an online magazine hosted on a solar-powered server, occasionally offline. #sustainability #minimalism

People have been saying "low code" or "no code" for a long time: 1959 "Low code!" => COBOL for business people 1961 "Low code!" => SQL for managers 1984 "Low code!" => "4th gen." languages 1994 "Low code!" => iCon-L for µ-controllers (1 of 2)

"How many words for snow?" - Franz Boas: 4 in Inuit - charleskemp.com/code/lexical... - rejected by Laura Martin in: "Eskimo Words for Snow": A Case Study in the Genesis and Decay of an Anthropological Example" Am. Anthrop., New Series 88(2) 1986: 418-423, www.jstor.org/stable/67757... - but...

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on AI for AI Education (AI4AILearning'25) held at KI'25 (Potsdam/Berlin, mid-September 2025) Paper submission deadline: 20 June 2025 cogsys.uni-bamberg.de/events/ai4ai... #conferences #education #AI #edutech #artificialintelligence #CfP

Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors archive.is/BrLso #insurance #AI #chatbots #lloydsoflondon #ycombinator

Better hurry up: universe expected to decay already in 10^78 years, not 10^1100 phys.org/news/2025-05... #cosmology

Google agrees to pay 1400 million dollars to Texan government for privacy violations apnews.com/article/texa... #google #privacy #surveillance #law

The folks at the Large Hadron Collider can now make gold, unfortunately that is more expensive than natural gold... www.home.cern/news/news/ph... #alchemy #science #physics

WIPO: R&D spending www.wipo.int/web/global-i... (but note companies report R&D differently, and WIPO may be biased towards patent-protected R&D) #research #innovation #IPR

June Duh (Princeton), poet-turned-mathematician, wins Fields www.quantamagazine.org/june-huh-hig... The real beauty of this article is how research works (not the same for all people) and how hard it can be to be to be a member of a researcher's family. #mathematics #research

SIGSPATIAL 2025 sigspatial2025.sigspatial.org/vision-submi... #geo #location #GIS #conferences #research

This is genious, whoever came up with it! (Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took - you pay for the pain caused to you by the pharma company). www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw... #ITSEC #security #microsoft #business #monopoly

Habemus Cancellarium: frat. Friedericum