Researchers Explain the Science Powering Yahoo Weather
Yahoo Labs researchers explain how various computer science disciplines are used to surface the Flickr photos used in the Yahoo Weather app.
Nov 24 2014 New Research Explores the Social Signals in Yelp Reviews
Two new research papers from Yahoo Labs break down the social signals in Yelp reviews and to what extent they are meaningful.
Nov 11 2014 New Research Discusses the Benefit of Advanced NLP Techniques for Search Tasks
In a paper published this week at CIKM 2014, Yahoo Labs scientists discuss the benefit and importance of using advanced NLP techniques in search tasks.
Nov 3 2014 Yahoo Donates 200 Servers to Georgia Tech
Yahoo gifted Georgia Tech 200 servers through our Y-STAR program (Yahoo Servers To Academic Researchers).
Oct 21 2014 Personalization Sciences Team Awarded Best Paper at RecSys2014
The Personalization Sciences team at Yahoo Labs received the Best Paper Award RecSys2014 for "Beyond Clicks: Dwell Time for Personalization."
Oct 8 2014 The Science of Personalization Goes Beyond Clicks
We explore how to best define user engagement, how to measure it, and how to design learning algorithms that optimize for it by going beyond clicks.
Oct 7 2014 2014 Yahoo ACE Award Recipients Selected
It is our pleasure to announce our 2014 Yahoo ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) Award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Oct 2 2014 Ben Shahshahani Returns to Yahoo Labs as VP of Advertising Sciences
Ben Shahshahani returns to Yahoo Labs as our new Vice President of Advertising Sciences in the United States.
Sep 29 2014 2 Weeks, 2 Best Research Paper Awards
We are very proud to announce that the research scientists at Yahoo Labs have won two best paper awards in two weeks; at UbiComp and MobileHCI.
Sep 25 2014 Dr. Ben Shneiderman Engages with Data Visualization in Big Thinkers Talk
Dr. Ben Sneiderman presents a Big Thinkers talk at Yahoo entitled, "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery: Big Insights from Big Data."
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