Today, Yuan works with Yahoo Labs scientists to build prototypes for various projects. He enjoys what he does at work and sees it as a full circle back to his childhood. “Just as it was when I was a kid, I liked to build stuff then and that’s what I’m doing now,” he said.
Nov 24 2010 Congratulations to Elizabeth Churchill and Yoelle Maarek
Nov 24 2010 Stanford, the University of Washington, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Purdue join M45
Michael J. Carey presented "ASTERIX: Towards a Scalable, Semistructured Data Platform for Evolving World Models" as part of the Big Thinkers series.
We are working on models that give personalized predictions of the response to sponsored search ads. These models will improve the user experience by making changes to ranking and presentation of ads, according to the user's past behavior.
Nov 3 2010 At Yahoo Labs, we believe that innovation in the Web experience of tomorrow will depend directly on the work being done behind the scenes today to create new scientific theories, models and disciplines for understanding the Internet. In fact, a core element of Yahoo Labs’ charter is to invent the new sciences that will underlie the next generation Internet.
Oct 28 2010 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are taking on the challenge of building a continuously operating machine learning system that will attempt to master semantics by making use of the vast repository of natural language statements found on the Web.
Oct 14 2010 Observing what people do online at any moment can create a compelling snapshot of our collective consciousness, instantaneously reflecting the interests, concerns, and intentions of people around the world. We can even take this idea one step further: What people are searching for today can be predictive of what they will do in the near future.
Last week, Yahoo Labs scientist Elizabeth Churchill and Pomona College's Sara Owsley Sood presented their paper, Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities", at the Grace Hopper conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Check out the coverage from WIRED and Scientific America.
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