Musing

Once again I served as a Science Fair judge for the North Seattle Deanery Middle Schools. Essentially this means that I was a judge for the private Catholic schools in the area. The particular projects that I judged were 7th grade projects. I won’t write too many details about the specific projects that I was able to view and judge but overall (with some exceptions) I was very impressed with the students. All of the students were very polite and most were well spoken. Several might even have promising careers as scientists and showed sophisticated thinking particularly for 7th graders. They separated the projects so that some judged viewed only girls’ projects and others viewed only boys. I interviewed boys.

I’m back at Microsoft Research working in a contract position with the group I previously worked at (the VIBE Group). It’s great to be back there and I’m following up with some research that is similar to what we were doing before.

Speaking of research that I was doing at MSR before, we’re presenting some of our research at http://www.icwsm.org/2008/index.shtml

There should be two very interesting papers:

Spontaneous Inference of Personality Traits from Online Profiles

Thin Slices of Online Profile Attributes