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.

Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research in the Haifa office.

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.

The iPhone caused a tectonic shift in the tech landscape -- what else out there will change our lives?

You are how you e-mail: A new technique can tell people apart using only the timestamps in their Sent folders.

If there's one place on earth where swine talk is still met with open arms, it's Yahoo!.

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.

Twenty exceptional PhD students have been selected to receive this prestigious award in its inaugural year.

Yahoo! earned 14 out of 105 total accepted papers this year – the most from any single organization.

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

Pentland came to Yahoo! to discuss how there are patterns in behavior that can reveal important things about people like intentions, goals and values.

Advanced computational models are enabling researchers to create increasingly sophisticated prediction markets.

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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.

Yahoo! Research led the technical program at the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009), held February 9 to 12 in Barcelona, Spain, authoring almost a quarter of the total accepted papers – including the Best Paper Award - and holding several positions on the program committees.

Yahoo! Labs kicked off its 2009 Big Thinkers Series on Wednesday with Dr. Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stanford University.

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has named economics scholar and author R. Preston McAfee the newest SPARC innovator for his pioneering contributions to the Open Educational Resources movement and passionate advocacy for Open Access.

When compared with the ways it has transformed dating, shopping, terrorism, and interpersonal communication, the fact that the Internet is changing how a few social scientists work may not seem like much to get excited about. But if Duncan Watts is right, it should be.

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.

CIKM featured twenty-four Yahoos on the program committee, two invited Yahoo! speakers and one tutorial given by Yahoo! Research.

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.

Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.

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).