John Langford

Research Area: Machine Learning
Location: Yahoo! Research New York

Profile

Dr. John Langford is a Senior Researcher at Yahoo! Research. His work includes research in machine learning, game theory, steganography, and Captchas. He was previously a Research Associate Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago. He has worked in the past at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yortown, NY under the Goldstine Fellowship. He earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and a Physics/Computer Science double major from CalTech in 1997.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • One Fast Wabbit - There are two ways to build a fast machine learning algorithm: Start with a slow algorithm and speed it up, or develop an intrinsically quick learning algorithm from the ground up.
  • The Large-Scale Machine Learning Workshop at NIPS - We are at the cusp of a new paradigm change: multi-core processing, which comes about when processor speeds are no longer increasing. Instead, the number of cores per computer is growing steadily every year.
  • Yahoo! Research Takes Top Prize at EC’08 - 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.
  • Yahoo!’s Outstanding List of Accepted Papers at EC 08 - 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.
  • Yahoo! Research at Neural Information Processing Systems Conference (NIPS 2007) - Several papers, posters and workshops were among the highlights of Yahoo! Research’s participation at NIPS 2007.
  • Yahoo! Research Academic Visitor Program - Since formalizing the Academic Visitors Program, Yahoo! Research has hosted dozens of leading academics from many of the top universities across the globe. These well-regarded thinkers have come to Yahoo! Research for anywhere from one week to one fu
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