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Featured Research Engineer - Tej Kasturi
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Featured Researcher - Duncan Watts
Born in Guelph, Ontario, Duncan Watts spent his early life in Canada, Scotland, and Australia, including six years in the Royal Australian Navy, before moving to the US at the age of 22 to attend Graduate School.
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 The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
When: Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 00:00 - Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Las Vegas, NV More information at http://www.kdd2008.com/
The 14th ACM SIGDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 08) will be held August 24 to 27 in Las Vegas, NV. Yahoo! Research earned the honor of 9 out of 95 total accepted research track papers this year (and 23 accepted industrial/government applications track papers). There were a total of 599 submissions and the choices were narrowed as a result of a rigid selection process.
KDD 08 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations covering all areas of data mining.
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 ACM Seventeenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
When: Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 00:00 - Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 00:00 Location: Napa, California More information at http://www.cikm2008.org/index.php
Yahoo! Research is a sponsor of the ACM Seventeenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), being held October 26 to 30 in scenic Napa, California. Researcher Sihem Amer-Yahia is the DB area chair. Yahoos Minos Garofalakis, Peter Mika, Rosie Jones, Vassilis Plachouras, Vanja Josifovski, Andrei Broder, Ravi Kumar, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Li Fan, Byron Dom, Jan Pedersen, Jing Bai, Bo Pang, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Zhaohui Zhen, Cong Yu, Jeonghee Yi and Nilesh Dalvi are on the program committee.
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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.
Event
 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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