Back in July, I posted here about the $1 million Netflix Prize and the amazing accomplishment of one of our senior research scientists, Yehuda Koren. At the time, Yehuda and a team
Distributing a search engine's index around the world could make it faster and more efficient, researchers say.
Yahoo Labs had a prominent presence at the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia held on October 19 -23, 2009 in Beijing, China.
Oct 27 2009 With 30 accepted papers Yahoo leads the program of full and short papers being presented at The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management on November 2-6, 2009 in Hong Kong.
Full Papers
Fast Shortest Path Distance Estimation in Large Networks
Originally published in the San Jose Mercury News
September 22, 2009
by Mike Swift
When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced a $100 million global brand campaign in New York Tuesday as the company launched its new Internet search "experience," research scientists like Preston McAfee, Duncan Watts and David Reiley were not in the spotlight.
The first week of September witnessed the meeting of great minds as Yahoo Academic Relations hosted its first Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Graduate Student Summit at its Sunnyvale campus.
Hack U is coming to select campuses this fall and next spring to teach students about Web programming languages and inspire innovation through coding mixed with imagination.
Dr. Jeannette Wing spoke to Yahoo scientists and engineers about the future of computational thinking.
The SIGIR Best Paper Award was given to Jaime Arguello (Carnegie Mellon University and Yahoo intern), Fernando Diaz (Yahoo Labs), Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University), Jean-Francois Crespo (Yahoo Labs) for "Sources of Evidence for Vertical Selection".
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