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Barbara Grosz Concludes 2008 Big Thinkers Series (December 18, 2008)
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.
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Yahoo! at CIKM 2008 (November 06, 2008)
CIKM featured twenty-four Yahoos on the program committee, two invited Yahoo! speakers and one tutorial given by Yahoo! Research.
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Big Thinker - Charles Plott (October 16, 2008)
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.
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BOSS Goes to College (October 02, 2008)
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.
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Big Thinkers India Series – Duncan Watts (September 25, 2008)
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.
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