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.
Aug 24 2015 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.
Aug 17 2015 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.
Jul 14 2015 Making Apps Understand Natural Language
Apps can now understand millions of natural language queries and commands with the SkyPhrase SDK.
Jul 6 2015 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.
Jun 29 2015 Yahoo Bolsters Computer Science in Academia with Largest-Ever Server Donation
Yahoo Labs’ Academic Partnerships team and the Yahoo Data Center Operations group had the pleasure of delivering 480 servers to UT Arlington.
Jun 25 2015 A Novel, Diverse Dataset for Automatic Video Summarization
Yahoo Labs is excited to release our newest Webscope dataset to the academic research community: TVSum50 for automatic video summarization.
Jun 4 2015 Big Thinker Peter Stone Discusses the Path to Fully Autonomous Robots
Dr. Peter Stone discusses his long-term goal of "robust, fully autonomous agents in the real world," and how to potentially get there.
Jun 1 2015 New Research Shows How Photo Filters Affect Online Engagement
Research looking at 7.6 million public Flickr app photos reveals interesting findings on how photo filters affect online engagement.
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