The final talk of the Yahoo! Research 2008 Big Thinkers Series featured Barbara Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at Harvard University. Entitled “It's Time to Talk: Managing Interruptions in Multi-Agent Environments,” her talk focused on looking at computer systems as collaborative partners or teammates, rather than simple servants that just respond to queries, and how a system can prompt a human for information with the consequence of interrupting their workflow when it believes that the human has extra information beyond the system.
All bets were on as Caltech Professor of Economics and Political Science Charles Plott gave a talk to a full audience at Yahoo!’s Mission College Campus – the fifth in the 2008 Yahoo! Research Big Thinkers series. His talk focused on how information aggregation mechanisms work and whether or not they are effective- specifically, in pari-mutuel betting systems.
Yahoo! Academic Relations group joined forces with the Yahoo! BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) team to kick off BOSS-U, the academic track of the BOSS initiative.
Duncan Watts was the latest speaker in the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series. His talk, entitled “Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age” drew a record number of attendees – over 700 – including people from tech R&D, start-ups and academia.
Bengaluru, Sept. 10: The Facebook ‘junkie’ would vouch for it but there are an equally large number of people who feel social networking sites are garbage. They don’t understand what it is; don’t know what to do with it, and often struggle to understand if they are useful at all.
Aside from earning the honor of 9 out of 95 total accepted research track papers this year and 1 accepted industrial/government applications track paper, Yahoo! took home the highest technical award from the conference for the 2nd year in a row: the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.
Researchers and staff at Yahoo! Research Barcelona packed up their belongings and relocated their office a short distance away to the 22@Barcelona District, also known as the Innovation District.
Check out the full list of accepted papers from the upcoming 14th ACM SIGDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 08) and 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008).
The 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) brought together a diverse group of over 500 attendees from academia and industry to the exotic island-nation of Singapore. Yahoo! was in the spotlight once again, snapping up three slots on the list of fully accepted papers, and six posters.
For most of us, technology plays a dominant role in our everyday lives. But for the four billion people in third-world countries who earn less than two dollars a day, technology has barely made a dent. Dr. Eric Brewer is trying to change that.
Yahoo! has joined forces with HP and Intel to create a global research project that brings cloud computing to the forefront of the technology universe.
PALO ALTO, SANTA CLARA, and SUNNYVALE, Calif., – JULY 29, 2008 – HP (NYSE: HPQ), Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), announced today the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.
Yahoo! Research took center stage at the Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’08), held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, winning the Outstanding Paper Award and having a total of seven research papers selected for the event -- more than any other organization.
The Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 08) will be held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, IL. Yahoo! will be repeating its stellar technical presence, earning the honor of 7 out of 38 total accepted papers this year as a result of a highly rigorous selection process.
The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions, presented "Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet: Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media" during the Big Thinkers India Series on May 23, 2008.
R. Preston McAfee received an honorary doctor of economics degree from Purdue University on May 10 during commencement ceremonies at the university’s campus in West Lafayette.
Yahoo! Research welcomed Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair professor of communication technology and society at USC, as the third Big Thinker of 2008 to speak at its Mission College campus.
What exactly is Hack U? During the course of the year, tech gurus from Yahoo! fly out to a select number of top universities across the country, usually no more than five to eight schools a year. They teach a series of Hack workshops and host a high-energy, interactive 24-hour coding festival where young thinkers can develop their dream applications.
The last week of March 2008 saw the emergence of a significant new era in the world of data-intensive scalable computing. Co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Yahoo!, the first-ever Hadoop Summit took place on March 25 in Santa Clara, followed by the first Data-Intensive Computing Symposium on March 26 at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale headquarters.
Mackie-Mason explained the idea of user contributed content as an input to production that is provided without direct, intrinsic compensation. The concept is not new, and there is no denying its growing significance.
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited, today announced an agreement to jointly support cloud computing research.
After a successful debut year in 2007, the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series saw a return this year, with researcher R. Preston McAfee kicking off the 2008 series.
New lab to solve complex problems at the core of Web search and strengthen global strategy to establish Yahoo! Search as an indispensable starting point for users on the Web
