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Research Area: Search Technologies, Web Information Management |
Profile
Christopher Olston is a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Research. He studies data management, focusing especially on web data management challenges. Olston is occasionally seen behaving as a professor, and has taught undergrad and grad courses at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Stanford under fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. His Bachelor's degree is from Berkeley with highest honors. Olston is an avid Cal fan but likes to rollerblade at Stanford.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs C. Olston; S. Chopra; U. Srivastava, SIGMOD Conference, 2009
- Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Data C. Olston; K. Elmeleegy; F. Junqueira; B. Reed, Conference on Innovative Data Systems (CIDR), 2009
- Recrawl Scheduling Based on Information Longevity C. Olston; S. Pandey, International World Wide Web Conference, 2008
- Crawl Ordering by Search Impact S. Pandey; C. Olston, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2008
- Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing C. Olston; B. Reed; U. Srivastava; R. Kumar; A. Tomkins, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Industrial Track), 2008
- Parallel Evaluation of Composite Aggregate Queries L. Chen; C. Olston; R. Ramakrishnan, International Conference on Data Engineering, 2008
- Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs C. Olston; B. Reed; A. Silberstein; U. Srivastava, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2008
- Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files P. Agrawal; D. Kifer; C. Olston, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies M. Fontoura; V. Josifovski; R. Kumar; C. Olston; A. Tomkins; S. Vassilvitskii, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications C. Garrod; A. Manjhi; A. Ailamaki; B. Maggs; T. Mowry; C. Olston; A. Tomasic, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- The Discoverability of the Web Dasgupta, A. ; Ghosh, A. ; Kumar, R. ; Olston, C. ; Pandey, S. ; Tomkins, A., Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007 [view abstract]
- Handling Advertisements of Unknown Quality in Search Advertising Pandey, S. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2006
- Shuffling a Stacked Deck: The Case for Partially Randomized Ranking of Search Engine Results Pandey, S. ; Roy, S. ; Olston, C. ; Cho, J. ; Chakrabarti, S., Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2005
- User-centric Web Crawling Pandey, S. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, 2005
- {WIC}: A General-Purpose Algorithm for Monitoring Web Information Sources Pandey, S. ; Dhamdhere, K. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2004