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SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
4:00 PM - Wean Hall 7500
3:30 PM Distinguished Donuts - Outside the Hall

Bruce Nelson Memorial Lecture

Prabhakar Raghavan
Head, Yahoo! Research

Web Search - From Information Retrieval to Microeconomic Modeling

In scarcely a decade, web search has gone from simply scaling traditional information retrieval, to a groundswell of new opportunities that are changing marketing as we know it. In this lecture we begin by reviewing this progress, pointing out that web search is no longer a purely computer science problem. We then hint at the role of other disciplines in this ongoing revolution and a number of directions for research

Speaker Bio:

Prabhakar Raghavan has been Head of Yahoo! Research since July 2005. His research interests include text and web mining, and algorithm design. He is a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM. Raghavan received his PhD from Berkeley and is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was Senior Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer at Verity; before that he held a number of technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.

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