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Featured Project

Motif

Searching for something today on the Web will usually return reasonable results. But what if a system was given more information, such as context, for the search?

Featured Researcher

Sharad Goel

Research Scientist Sharad Goel thought he would attend medical school, but studied math instead, and now works on social systems.

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