Some Novel Ideas for Improving Retirement Income

Dan Goldstein is exploring how new virtual reality technologies can be used to create future images of a person and how seeing those images could influence a person’s financial decisions.

Yahoo at SIGIR

Yahoo continued its unrivaled presence with 15 accepted papers, 5 accepted posters, a series of workshops, tutorials, and a long list of program committee members.

Using Flickr Photos as a Travel Guide

Every minute, there are thousands of images uploaded to photo site Flickr by people who want to share them with the world. And it turns out that if you look at these photos and where they were taken, you can get a pretty good idea of the best path to take when sightseeing.

Featured Researcher: Nilesh Dalvi

“The ability for researchers to interface with product groups is something very unique to Yahoo,” said Dalvi. “I plan on staying for a while.”

Innovation: Shrewd search engines know what you want

The cut-throat competition among search engines has ensured the operators are keenly attuned to keeping their visitors satisfied. But serving up handy links is a tricky business, especially when we searchers often use ambiguous terms. Demographic data can help according to Yahoo researchers.

Yahoo Advances Hadoop From Science to the World's Largest Internet Deployment to Mainstream Business Use

Chief Product Officer Blake Irving to Discuss the Business-Critical Role of Hadoop at Yahoo, Powering Consumer and Advertiser Experiences With Advanced Cloud Computing

Yahoo Labs Wins Best Paper Awards at USENIX ATC and ICML

Conference season is now in full swing, and Yahoo Labs is kicking things off with two best paper award wins.

Hugo Zaragoza Presents at Big Thinkers India Series

On June 11th, Hugo Zaragoza presented "Helping Computers Understand What They Search" as part of the Big Thinkers India Series.

Summer Conference Season Kicks off at Yahoo Labs

The beginning of summer marks the start of the busy conference season at Yahoo Labs. Last week, Yahoo Labs attended both SIGMOD and EC.

Where Does Your Tweet Go?

Probably nowhere, says Yahoo scientist at InternetWeek

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