Fame index I = 0.25*11.56 + 0.25*9.36 = 5.23

I’m not surprised that my general score in this case is zero, but I’m surprised to see two of the first 100 results to be pages about somebody’s name – though not my name. In both cases, 吉州 is the given name (not full name like me.)

It seems it take more time than I thought to carry out the experiments and report the results. I will have to finish this later.

Fame index I = 0.5*6909+0.25*(2623.53+1761.51) = 4550.775

“Really me” results:
Zhou Ji (7)
http://www.zhouji.net/ (this is my own web page)
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/j/Ji:Zhou.html (about my publications)
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1068009.1068056 (my publication)
http://ais.cs.memphis.edu/publications/ (including my publications)
http://issrl.cs.memphis.edu/publication/allPublications.php (including my publications)
http://zorro.cs.memphis.edu/~cswebadm/csweb/index.php?p=news
http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=21824 (my publication)

Zhou Ji AIS

1. http://ais.cs.memphis.edu/publications/
2. http://ais.cs.memphis.edu/thesis/
3. http://www.actapress.com/PaperInfo.aspx?PaperID=21824
4. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~psa/wcci06.htm
5. http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~psa/gecco06.htm
6. http://www.sim.uni-hannover.de/~svs/publications/schaust06kuvs.pdf
7. http://www.sim.uni-hannover.de/~svs/publications/drozda06asim.pdf
8. http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2004/talk-schedule.html
9. http://www.isgec.org/gecco-2004/forms-docs/gecco%202004%20program%20final.pdf
10. http://issrl.cs.memphis.edu/Seminar/
11. ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9256/29383/01330982.pdf [need login]
12. ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9096/28874/01299547.pdf [need login]
13. portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1144017&type=pdf [need login]
14. portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=1068056&type=pdf [need login]
15. http://www-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu:8080/GECCO-2004/forms-docs/gecco%202004%20program%20final2.doc
16. http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~rim/CEC2003/Book.pdf
17. http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~rim/CEC2003/CEC2003FullProgram.htm
18. http://www.springerlink.com/content/g4dg780uf6gvw545/
19. http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2006/forms-docs/gecco-06-program.pdf
20. http://www.logicalgenetics.com/paperbased/index.php
21. http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/sik/publikationen/papers/2006_iwsos_pie/iwsos2006.pdf
22. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/cec2003.bib
23. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~wbl/biblio/cec2004.bib
24. http://ppsn2006.raunvis.hi.is/proceedings/017.pdf
    

Zhou Ji negative selection

Zhou Ji Memphis

Ten years ago, it is much easier to find something really about me if you search my name on the Internet. Of course, not on Google because Google didn’t exist yet. There were several popular search engines back then, but no one is so dominating as Google. I remember names like Big Foot, Alta Vista, and later Go. I looked up on Wikipedia and didn’t find something match my memory. I may have used Excite and Inforseek as well.

But now I’m much less famous. Because my name is Zhou Ji, which happens to have the same spelling as Minster of Education of China, 周济. His pages are so many that mine are simply buried. Do I have better luck with my name in original Chinese characters, which is pretty unique,  吉州? Unfortunely, as unique as it is as a name, it is the name of a place! It has more pages than the minister. Again, I’m totally drown. Think about good old days, when the minister and the place didn’t have a page and I had one. Sign …

somebody’s lyrics

In the last couple of days, my mood was as bad as …

I decided to use my negative energy to make myself famous. Before I carry out the plan. I need to discuss three issues here:

(1) fame or privacy

(2) how to measure my (or your or whoever’s) fame

(3) what to do to increase my famousness

1. fame or privacy

Many people want to be famous. At the same time, almost everybody wants to have theri privacy. Isn’t that self -contradictary? For me, I want to be famous (at least at this minute), but I want privacy for certain thing, for example, my bank account, my home address, or my emails … Also, I’m not going to publisize my photos, especially current ones. Although I’m not really afraid for the public to see my pictures, they are not part of my plan to become famous.

2. how to measure

My scale of fame is simply defined as how google gets excited with my name. I mean when somebody who knows my name search it on google, how many pages can she find really about me? It is not really that simple as it sounds like. I’m going to do it in a very formal way. Almost every google user tried once or twice or more to searh their own names. I think they have very different luck. Why? Not becasue some are famous and some are not, but because somebody’s names are very common and somes’ are rare. For example, if you are “Li Hong”, google return about 33,000,000 results. But how many of those 33,000,000 are about you or at least are returned really because your name is in it? In this case, we need to measure mainly by how many are really about you. One the other hand, if you are “Bjarne Stroustrup”, probably all the returned results are really about you (about 642,000 for now). In this case, we should measure by how many results are returned. There are many people in between and what makes this more interesting is that there is no easy way to decide which result is “really you” – you have to read at least the title to decide. Here is the numbers I designed to be general enough to compare fame of anybody:

t = total number of pages found by google

r = the percentage of those “really you” within the first 100 results

fame score s = t*r*r

Use your full name but don’t use quote. I think this will bias to the infamous people because real celebrity will have more chances when searched by quoted full name – they are assumed to be “correct” results.

Further more, I call the score s based on your name “general score”. You can added some words or phrases to your name to search so the results can be more likely to be really you. This fame score is called “speciality score“. Assume your top two speciality scores are s₁ and s₂, I further define grand google fame index I=0.5 s+0.25 s₁+0.25 s₂. All these details will make more sense when I get the real numbers together with the example of my own name

3. how to become more “famous”

I will do some simple, free (in the sense of no payment) tricks in my own web pages, and add links of my webpage in blogs as this one, etc. I will describe exact what I do to make the difference later . Then, calculate the measures a month (or three months) later, and to see whether I make it easier to find something about me if you already know my name.