Yahoo gifted Georgia Tech 200 servers through our Y-STAR program (Yahoo Servers To Academic Researchers).
The Personalization Sciences team at Yahoo Labs received the Best Paper Award RecSys2014 for "Beyond Clicks: Dwell Time for Personalization."
We explore how to best define user engagement, how to measure it, and how to design learning algorithms that optimize for it by going beyond clicks.
It is our pleasure to announce our 2014 Yahoo ACE (Academic Career Enhancement) Award recipients for the 2014-2015 academic year.
Ben Shahshahani returns to Yahoo Labs as our new Vice President of Advertising Sciences in the United States.
We are very proud to announce that the research scientists at Yahoo Labs have won two best paper awards in two weeks; at UbiComp and MobileHCI.
Dr. Ben Sneiderman presents a Big Thinkers talk at Yahoo entitled, "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery: Big Insights from Big Data."
Ben-Gurion University professor Aryeh Kontorovich recently instructed a theoretical machine learning course at Yahoo and makes it available for all.
Yahoo Labs' research scientists use state-of-the-art tag-clustering technology to predicting the 2014-2015 NFL season according to Tumblr.
Research scientists present a novel framework that recommends new social connections with explanations as to whether the link is topical or social.