Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Profile

Born in Chile, studied in Chile & Canada, previously full professor at Univ. of Chile and ICREA research professor at UPF in Barcelona. Co-author of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) among other books and publications. Member of the ACM, AMS, IEEE (Senior), SIAM and SCCC, as well as the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Awards from American Organization States, Institute of Engineers of Chile, and COMPAQ. Main hobby: applied geography.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Research Leads Technical Program at WSDM 2008 Debut - Yahoo! Research led the technical program at WSDM, authoring one-fifth of the accepted papers and holding several positions on the program committees.
  • Yahoo! Shines at KDD Conference - Yahoo! was in the spotlight at the 13th annual ACM SIGKDD, the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, held August 12th-15th in San Jose.
  • Baeza-Yates delivers ECML Keynote Address - Ricardo Baeza-Yates had the honor of presenting the keynote address at this year’s European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge (PKDD).
  • Yahoo! Research Celebrates Chile Opening - Yahoo! Research inaugurated a research center at the University of Chile, Santiago on Friday, November 3.
  • Yahoo! Researcher Spreads "Folksonomy" at European Conference on Digital Libraries - Ricardo Baeza-Yates spoke recently at the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) held in Alicante, Spain in September.
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