Joshua Goodman's Home Page

About Me

My first real job was in 1992, working at Dragon Systems, building speech recognition software. After two years of writing code, I entered graduate school and by 1998 received a Ph.D. in Statistical Natural Language Processing from Harvard. I joined Microsoft Research's Speech Recognition group straight from there, and spent a couple of years working on language modeling. I moved on to the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics group, where I did more machine learning work, including logistic regression/maximum entropy work. In 2002, I started working on spam, and eventually helped Microsoft's spam product team get started, working "on loan" to them until August 2004. I went back to Microsoft Research, where I worked on spam, click fraud, email and messaging in general. I helped start the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), and I was general chair in 2005.

Then, in 2006, everything changed. I became a Technical Assistant for a couple of years, and then became Group Program Manager for the Common Language Runtime team in 2008. What does that mean?

A Group Program Manager manages Lead Program Managers. Lead Program Managers manage Program Managers. Program Managers don't program and they don't manage. The CLR team helps people who write programs to help people write programs to help people write programs.

Contact information:
Joshua Goodman
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399

My email address: Joshuago@microsoft.com

Stuff from long ago

My publications are HERE.

The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam. Want to know more about spam? Geoff Hulten and I gave tutorials on spam at ICML and at KDD.

Here is a Bibliography of Spam. On August 16, the third floor coffee maker celebrated its 20th birthday. Click for more pictures.

PUBLICATIONS

My PUBLICATIONS are all on their own page now.

Software

JCLUSTER
Jcluster is the tool I wrote to get word clusters. It is a particularly fast and efficient word clustering implementation, and can produce hierarchical clusters. A few other people have used it successfully although a few crashes have been reported and it is not industrial strength code. It can also be used to cluster sentences or even documents. Only the executable (and Microsoft Word documentation) and only for Windows is available.

Josh Goodman has his home page here too, though I prefer to be called Joshua.