Yahoo Donates Servers to UCSD, UMass, USC for Research

As part of our continued effort to support cutting-edge scientific research in academia, Yahoo recently gifted 400 servers to three leading university computer science and engineering departments.

Science Powering Product: Yahoo Answers

Our Answering Complex Queries group in Haifa developed an automatic quality scoring system for the Yahoo Answers CQA site. Answers are now ranked by relevance. They explain how their science powers the product.

Birds, Apps, and Users: Scalable Factorization Machines

The Yahoo Labs Personalization Science team has developed a new, scalable recommendation system that allows researchers to model complex interaction features including side information on users, items and context, without sacrificing scalability.

Omid Architecture and Protocol

Our Search Systems team in Haifa, along with Yahoo Search in Sunnyvale, brings you the second installment of their blog series on Omid, an open source transaction processing system for Apache HBase.

Yahoo Donates Servers to Stony Brook University to Advance Computing Research

I am spending this year on sabbatical at Yahoo Labs after 27 years at Stony Brook. It is interesting to experience the life at a major technology company, and I am sure that much of what I learn here will inform my teaching and research when I return there in Fall 2016.

Visiting Research Scientist Dragomir Radev Coaches U.S. Linguistics Team to Wins at International Olympiad

Visiting Senior Principal Research Scientist Dragomir Radev recently coached the U.S. linguistics team to multiple wins at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.

adaQAC: Adaptive Query Auto-Completion via Implicit Negative Feedback

New research from scientists Amit Goyal and Hongbo Deng in our Web and Federated Search group considers a more comprehensive method of searching using implicit negative feedback in query auto-completion.

Faculty Research And Engagement Program 2015 Recipients Selected

We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2015 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP) award.

Making Apps Understand Natural Language

Apps can now understand millions of natural language queries and commands with the SkyPhrase SDK.

Big Thinker Rob Hyndman Explores the Science of Forecasting and Prediction

Dr. Rob Hyndman delivers a Big Thinkers talk on the science of prediction and forecasting while drawing on compelling real-world examples.