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Featured Researcher - Kishore Papineni
Kishore Papineni grew up in a “small” town in India. With a population of over a half a million people, it seemed like his childhood in Guntur positioned him for a career in engineering. “That’s what the top of the class did – either engineering or medicine,” he says.
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 31st Annual International ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
When: Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 00:00 - Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Singapore More information at http://www.sigir2008.org/
Yahoo! is a gold sponsor at the 31st Annual International ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), taking place July 20 to 24 in Singapore. SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval
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 ACM International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems
When: Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00 - Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada More information at http://www.sigmod08.org/
Yahoo! Research is a sponsor of the 28th ACM International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems (SIGMOD/PODS), taking place June 9 to 12 in Vancouver, B.C. SIGMOD/PODS is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. Researchers Sihem Amer-Yahia and Minos Garofalakis are on the program committee.
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 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval
When: Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 00:00 - Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Glascow, Scotland More information at http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/index.html
The annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the major European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad field of Information Retrieval.
The 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 30th March - 3rd April 2008, organised by the University of Glasgow, in cooperation with the University of Strathclyde, supported by BCS IRSG and ACM SIGIR.
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 World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
When: Monday, April 21, 2008 - 00:00 - Friday, April 25, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Beijing, China More information at http://www2008.org
The 17th International World Wide Web Conference will take place April 21 to April 25 at the Beijing International Convention Center. Yahoo! is a gold sponsor this year. Chief Search Scientist Andrew Tomkins is a program chair, and Research Fellow and VP Andrei Broder is a panel chair. Several researchers are refereed paper track chairs, including Ravi Kumar, David Pennock, Ronny Lempel and Hugo Zaragoza. Research VP Ricardo Baeza-Yates and researcher Aristides Gionis are giving a tutorial on Web Mining.
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 ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC)
When: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00 - Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Chicago, IL More information at http://www.sigecom.org/ec08/
Yahoo! Research is a sponsor of the Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 08), being held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, IL. EC 08 will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce. Research Scientist Yiling Chen is tutorials chair. Other Yahoos on the program committee include David Pennock, Sebastian Lahaie, Mohammad Mahdian and Jan Pedersen.
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 First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
When: Monday, February 11, 2008 - 00:00 - Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Stanford, CA More information at http://wsdm2008.org/
Yahoo! Research is a gold sponsor of the First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2008), being held February 11 to 12 at Stanford University, Stanford, CA. WSDM is a brand new ACM conference intended to be complementary to the World Wide Web Conference tracks in search and data mining. Yahoo! Research has a strong presence, including 12 researchers on the program committees. Research Fellow and VP Andrei Broder is program committee co-chair. Research VP Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Head of Research Prabhakar Raghavan are members of the senior program committee.
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 A Big Thinkers Event: Internet and Society - what academic research actually knows about it
When: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 11:00 - Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:00 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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 A Big Thinkers Event: Getting the Good Stuff In, Keeping the Bad Stuff Out - Incentives and User-contributed Content
When: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 11:00 - Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:00 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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 A Big Thinkers Event: PhotoSpread - A Spreadsheet for Managing Photos
When: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:00 - Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 12:00 Location: Santa Clara, CA
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PhotoSpread is a spreadsheet system for organizing and analyzing photo collections. It extends the current spreadsheet paradigm in two ways:
- PhotoSpread accommodates sets of objects (e.g., photos) annotated with tags (attribute-value pairs). Formulas can manipulate object sets and refer to tags.
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