The Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 08) will be held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, IL. Yahoo! will be repeating its stellar technical presence, earning the honor of 7 out of 38 total accepted papers this year as a result of a highly rigorous selection process.
The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions, presented "Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet: Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media" during the Big Thinkers India Series on May 23, 2008.
R. Preston McAfee received an honorary doctor of economics degree from Purdue University on May 10 during commencement ceremonies at the university’s campus in West Lafayette.
Yahoo! Research welcomed Manuel Castells, Wallis Annenberg Chair professor of communication technology and society at USC, as the third Big Thinker of 2008 to speak at its Mission College campus.
What exactly is Hack U? During the course of the year, tech gurus from Yahoo! fly out to a select number of top universities across the country, usually no more than five to eight schools a year. They teach a series of Hack workshops and host a high-energy, interactive 24-hour coding festival where young thinkers can develop their dream applications.
The last week of March 2008 saw the emergence of a significant new era in the world of data-intensive scalable computing. Co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and Yahoo!, the first-ever Hadoop Summit took place on March 25 in Santa Clara, followed by the first Data-Intensive Computing Symposium on March 26 at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale headquarters.
Mackie-Mason explained the idea of user contributed content as an input to production that is provided without direct, intrinsic compensation. The concept is not new, and there is no denying its growing significance.
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited, today announced an agreement to jointly support cloud computing research.
After a successful debut year in 2007, the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series saw a return this year, with researcher R. Preston McAfee kicking off the 2008 series.
New lab to solve complex problems at the core of Web search and strengthen global strategy to establish Yahoo! Search as an indispensable starting point for users on the Web
On March 3, Yahoo! unveiled a new lab in Bangalore that will focus on researching next generation search and advertising technologies. The lab will be led by eminent scientist Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, who has been named Vice President and Head, Yahoo! Labs Bangalore.
Yahoo! Labs – Bangalore to be at the forefront of discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web. Eminent scientist Dr. Rajeev Rastogi appointed to head the Lab.
A small group of Yahoos are becoming familiar faces on key university campuses across the nation. Splashes of purple stand out in faculty offices and dormitories.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 65 new members and nine foreign associates, included Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research.
Congratulations to our 2008-2009 Phd Fellowship Winners: Jacob Abernethy, UC Berkeley
Arnab Nandi, University of Michigan
Adam Rothman, University of Michigan
Xuanhui Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In support of what he describes as a “biodiversity” project, Stanford University Professor Hector Garcia-Molina demonstrated PhotoSpread, a spreadsheet system for organizing and analyzing photo collections.
Why do kids participate in some online sites rather than others? How do social categories in youth culture such as “geeks,” “jocks,” and “cool kids” affect online participation? How do specific hobbies, interests, and friendships factor into young people’s decisions of where to go online?
Yahoo! announced that three world-renowned scientists from Yahoo! Research have been recognized for their achievements in fields key to developing the next-generation of Internet experiences, including computer science, artificial intelligence, data mining, and algorithm engineering.
Yahoo! Research is pleased to announce the 2008 Distinguished Speaker Series including Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Manuel Castells, Eric Brewer, Charles Plott, and Barbara Gross
The joint Caltech - Yahoo! conference, also known as SISL-YAHOO!, took place November 9- November 11. In the words of Yahoo! Research scientist Michael Schwarz, the event was “an interdisciplinary delight.”
Researchers at the nation’s universities are hungry for an Internet-scale computing environment, but it’s almost impossible to find this kind of computing power on a university campus. Yahoo! is bringing large-scale supercomputing to the academic research community through its M45 project.
A highly-attended keynote, a number of well-received papers, and a prominent program committee chair were some of the highlights from this year’s Yahoo! Research presence at the ACM Sixteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 07), held November 6 to 9.
