Today, I want to share with you my little LEGO project about the impressive main building of the University of Zurich. Inspired by the LEGO Architecture series, I reconstructed the LEGO University of Zurich with 373 common LEGO bricks. Watch the… Continue Reading
What makes a place or a location interesting for you? Well, your favorite bars, clubs or public places may cross your mind right now and you’ll think further to unique spots or sights in your local area or popular places… Continue Reading
Michael Küchler just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate the benefit of following other people’s recommendations with similar or partially similar restaurant preferences. More specifically, do people follow the recommendations of other people who… Continue Reading
Reto Zenger just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate if the concept of collaborative filtering can be applied to cross-project defect prediction. But first, you’ll need a little background. One research field in… Continue Reading
Thomas Kaul just finished his bachelor’s thesis. The vision for his bachelor’s thesis was to create a computer program or rather an agent that plays Texas Hold’em to beat a specific human player in 1 vs 1. For instance, the… Continue Reading
Matthias Z’brun just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to investigate how, when, and when not ratings and trust inferencing in social networks force good behavior of suppliers and consumers in two-sided online markets. To… Continue Reading
Thomas Maurer just finished his master’s thesis. The goal of his master’s thesis was to use the location information about people with similar preferences rather than structured information about places to identify interesting locations. The underlying assumption is that locations… Continue Reading
The Swiss banc UBS, one of the leading players in the global financial market, announced a contest on how Web 2.0 may help the UBS. In particular UBS was looking for Web 2.0 concepts between 5 and 10 pages focusing… Continue Reading
Some research has already been done investigating Web-based social networks and its applicability for different tasks such as trust inferrencing with trust networks or collaborative filtering respectively recommender systems. My master student Reto Hodel applied social network analysis to a… Continue Reading
Everybody is excited about Google Wave and curious about what new forms of interactions with other people become possible. One special thing about Google Wave are the Wavelets. Wavelets are a form of collaboration workspace where people chat and share… Continue Reading