PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 27, 2010 – HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo Inc. today announced that four new organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The announcement coincides with the 4th Open Cirrus Summit hosted by Carnegie Melon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh in cooperation with HP and Yahoo
We sat down with two of this year’s winners, Moira Burke of Carnegie Mellon University and Scott Duke Kominers of Harvard University, to learn a bit about their research.
Yahoo NewsBytes goes inside the mind of Duncan Watts, Yahoo Labs Research Principal Scientist to discuss six degrees of separation and the science of paying celebrities big bucks to tweet.
Sep 2 2010 Close competition, innovative ideas, and a lot of determination were some of the highlights of the first ever Yahoo Labs Learning to Rank Challenge.
Aug 26 2010 A Yahoo Research tool mines news archives for meaning--illuminating past, present, and even future events.
Aug 26 2010 Imagine a world where your favorite webpage doesn’t even exist until you go there, and then it’s exactly what you hoped it would be, and it makes you viscerally happy. Prabhakar Raghavan is thinking about just that, and as the chief scientist for Yahoo he’s actually in a position to make it possible.
Aug 19 2010 The more Internet scientists find out about us, the better they can build a business. That used to end with personalization, but now it’s about who we touch, and whether we matter more than Kim Kardashian.
Search engines like Yahoo know a lot about what you search for, but they also are learning a lot about you. Yahoo has several hundred research scientists on the prowl. ABC7 went to see what they are up to.
"Yahoo Labs is tackling the biggest scientific questions facing the industry and Yahoo -- from how to define what's personally meaningful to the billions of people online, to investigating what the Web can teach us about ourselves and society," said Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's chief scientist and head of Yahoo Labs.
Last year, when we were finalizing an academic paper tracing the history of public software institutions over the last half a century, Flash stood out as somewhat of an exception – a proprietary solution in the web development world otherwise dominated by open source. Flash’s banishment from Apple suggests that this exceptional position may not last much longer.
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