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Ok I'm registered. Downloading the 1.5G document set now. This is pretty interesting.

way to go matt. Did you say 1.5G? For those reading & who want a summary the problem is on 'entity resolution'.

'... A common problem that we face is that there are many people with the same name. Given that, how do we distinguish a document about Michael Jackson the singer from Michael Jackson the football player ...'

Yes, 1.5G. And that's just the small dataset to get you going! They really should used a Torrent for this thing. Right now I'm hoping my wireless keeps up with the download.

or offer a DVD burning service.

There are times when you want to keep things in your house. They're using amazon s3 so it's costing them $0.30 per download. Pennies compared to the 50k prize.

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