Edo Liberty Receives Best Research Paper at KDD 2013

We are proud to announce that our Research Scientist, Edo Liberty, has been recognized with this year's Best Research Paper award at the 19th annual ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

Marissa Mayer Interview with Bloomberg on Rise of Yahoo Labs

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently spoke to Bloomberg News on the resurgence of Yahoo Labs. The article discusses the importance and commitment Mayer places on research, which is reflected in the company's hiring efforts this year.

Yahoo Summer School Features Semantic Search in Bangalore

Yahoo Labs' recent fourth annual Summer School event in Bangalore provided a forum to discuss the hottest topics in Semantic Search -- like query interpretation, response ranking, or entity extraction, and gave insight into how our Labs and Product teams are collaborating.

Peter Mika Interview with LiveMint.com

While in Bangalore, India recently for our Yahoo Summer School 2013 program, Senior Research Scientist Peter Mika sat down with the leading daily business newspaper LiveMint.com to talk about the science and future of Search.

Yoelle Maarek Honored with Prestigious SIGIR Election

We are extremely pleased to announce that Yoelle Maarek, our Senior Research Director and Head of Haifa Labs, has begun a three-year term this week as the Vice Chair of the ACM SIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) Executive Committee.

University of Illinois Chancellor Visits Yahoo

Yesterday, we were pleased to welcome Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise to our campus in Sunnyvale. The Chancellor’s visit provided a great opportunity for alumni and summer interns to get together for an intimate discussion regarding what they learned at Illinois and how it has enhanced their labor at Yahoo.

Faculty Research and Engagement Program 2013 Recipients Selected

Congratulations to the 27 recipients of the 2013 Yahoo Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP)!

Research Scientist, Eric Bax, talks about his visit to UC Irvine

I went to give a talk about validation of network classifiers, an interesting challenge in machine learning. The students wanted to hear about some real-world challenges, so we also did an activity where they pretended to have companies participating in an online advertising exchange.

Best Paper Nomination at CSCW 2013

A paper co-authored by a Yahoo Labs Research Scientist, Henriette Cramer, received a Best Paper Nomination at CSCW’13!

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