Volunteering Rise of the Voluntrepreneur: COVID-19's Digital Home Front Heroes How technologists and entrepreneurs helped volunteer services get back online in times of unprecedented demand
Context Scout What if web browsers could talk? A speculative vision for a conversational web browser that chats to you and assists you while you're online
Innovate UK The Definitive Guide to Innovate UK Grants for Startups Every early stage startup always has one eye on their runway, and applying for a research grant is an attractive way of extending it. But the applications process is slow,
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Hi, I'm Marc Sloan's Blog I’m a product manager, entrepreneur, academic, developer and designer, ruminating on AI and the future of the internet. I created a technology called Scout that offers real-time virtual assistance
Search The Web Needs a New Interface Our interface to the web has not changed in 20 years. Despite the ubiquity of the internet and recent progress with AI, the web browser is still nothing more than
Context Scout Digging Deep in 2017 Search without the search engine, life after Google and an AI in your browser are different ways of saying the same thing. What it comes down to is Context Scout’
Search Searching Outside the Box You’ve probably used one of these today For most of us, the search box is the entry-point to the web and a vital conduit for information access and retrieval.
Dynamic Information Retrieval Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling Change is at the heart of a modern Information Retrieval system such as a search engine. Advances in IR interface, personalization and ad display demand models that can intelligently react to users and their context in real time. Many of the current problems in
Microsoft What Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn will mean for the future of productivity And with that, Microsoft announced once of the most important acquisitions in their history, made even more remarkable by the fact that it’s been kept quiet for what undoubtedly
Context Scout Context Scout — A Tool for Technical Candidate Assessment (built by IAESTE alumni) Let me tell you about how me and my co-founder Andy got here and the effect IAESTE has had on our lives
Context Scout Connectifier the Dots. Context Scout is Moving (Linked)In There were some pretty big headlines this past week. LinkedIn dropped almost half its share price, but they also acquired Connectifier, which didn’t go down so well with everyone, although we’re only too happy to step in :)
Context Scout The ‘Context’ in Context Scout and Recruitment Context Scout’s mission is to make social profiles more intelligent for recruiting. It’s a Chrome extension that detects when you are on a candidate’s LinkedIn profile page and searches the web for extra information about them.