I just noticed a crawler from my CS department on my website. This particular crawler seems to be part of a machine learning/information gathering research project that is going on in our department. It was/is from the same knowitall server cluster that I was working as part of my research this past spring. The UW CSE department is pretty hardcore and ranked among the best in the country and the world, thanks to some generous funding from huge corporations.
I’m pretty excited although I really don’t know why. It’s just a crawler but I think it’s pretty cool that I was ablt to recognize it and that it was from the same server cluster I was working on a few months ago.