Yahoo! Labs outperformed its previous year’s presence, taking the awards for best paper, best student paper, and runner-up student paper out of a record 30 accepted papers.
Ron Graham from the University of California, San Diego spoke on "Computers and Mathematics: Problems & Prospects" at Yahoo! Labs Big Thinkers Event on October 29, 2009.
With 30 accepted papers Yahoo! leads the program of full and short papers being presented at The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management on November 2-6, 2009 in Hong Kong
When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a $100 million global brand campaign in New York Tuesday as the company launched its new Internet search "experience," research scientists like Preston McAfee, Duncan Watts and David Reiley were not in the spotlight.
The first week of September witnessed the meeting of great minds as Yahoo! Academic Relations hosted its first Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Graduate Student Summit at its Sunnyvale campus. The two-day summit brought together winners of the updated KSC program which was launched in January 2009.
Hack U is coming to select campuses this fall and next spring to teach students about Web programming languages and inspire innovation through coding mixed with imagination.
The SIGIR Best Paper Award was given to Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo! intern), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo! Labs), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo! Labs) for "Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection".
When the organizers of the Netflix Prize contest announced late last week that one team had met the requirement for the $1 million Grand Prize, Yehuda Koren , a member of the seven-person multinational team, was in Paris to present a paper at KDD-09, the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
It was an exciting week as two major conferences took place concurrently during the week of June 28. The 15th ACM SGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in Paris, while the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference found its base in Providence. Yahoo! walked away the winner of the Best Paper Award at both conferences, in addition to earning a high number of accepted papers.
Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava.
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 8, 2009 – HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced that three new research organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research.
Internet use is a twenty-four-hour-a-day, worldwide activity. This puts incredible demands on the machines that support the network and its applications.
Yahoo! has earned 12 out of 142 total accepted papers this year and the Best Paper Award for "Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics" by Yehuda Koren.
Yahoo! repeated its stellar technical presence, earning the honor of 14 out of 105 total accepted papers – the most from any single organization, and also picking up 2 Best Paper Award nominations. Researcher Ricardo Baeza-Yates was an invited speaker for a plenary panel on Web Science, together with Tim Berners-Lee. Yahoo! also held various tutorials, workshops and panels.
University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst join Carnegie Mellon University to take advantage of Yahoo!’s cloud computing resources
What do climate change, Kevin Bacon, the snowy tree cricket, Al Qaeda, HIV, the World Wide Web, and your address book have in common? They’ve all played a role in a major science discovery –- the hidden language of networks.
