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Research Area: Search Technologies |
Profile
Christopher Olston is a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Research, working in the areas of data management and web search. Olston is occasionally seen behaving as a professor, and has taught undergrad and grad courses at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Stanford under fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. His Bachelor's degree is from Berkeley with highest honors. Olston is an avid Cal fan but likes to rollerblade at Stanford.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies M. Fontoura; V. Josifovski; R. Kumar; C. Olston; A. Tomkins; S. Vassilvitskii, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files P. Agrawal; D. Kifer; C. Olston, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- Automatic Optimization of Parallel Dataflow Programs C. Olston; B. Reed; A. Silberstein; U. Srivastava, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2008
- Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing C. Olston; B. Reed; U. Srivastava; R. Kumar; A. Tomkins, ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (Industrial Track), 2008
- Parallel Evaluation of Composite Aggregate Queries L. Chen; C. Olston; R. Ramakrishnan, International Conference on Data Engineering, 2008
- Recrawl Scheduling Based on Information Longevity C. Olston; S. Pandey, International World Wide Web Conference, 2008
- Crawl Ordering by Search Impact S. Pandey; C. Olston, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2008
- Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications C. Garrod; A. Manjhi; A. Ailamaki; B. Maggs; T. Mowry; C. Olston; A. Tomasic, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2008
- The Discoverability of the Web Dasgupta, A. ; Ghosh, A. ; Kumar, R. ; Olston, C. ; Pandey, S. ; Tomkins, A., Proceedings of the Sixteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2007 [view abstract]
- Navigation-Aided Retrieval Pandit, S. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, 2007
- Invalidation Clues for Database Scalability Services Manjhi, A. ; Gibbons, P. ; Ailamaki, A. ; Garrod, C. ; Maggs, B. ; Mowry, T. ; Olston, C. ; Tomasic, A. ; Yu, H., Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007
- Computing Shortest Paths with Uncertainty Feder, T. ; Motwani, R. ; O'Callaghan, L. ; Olston, C. ; Panigrahy, R., Journal of Algorithms, 2007
- Handling Advertisements of Unknown Quality in Search Advertising Pandey, S. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2006
- Simultaneous Scalability and Security for Data-Intensive Web Applications Manjhi, A. ; Ailamaki, A. ; Maggs, B. M. ; Mowry, T. C. ; Olston, C. ; Tomasic, A., Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2006
- User-centric Web Crawling Pandey, S. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, 2005
- Shuffling a Stacked Deck: The Case for Partially Randomized Ranking of Search Engine Results Pandey, S. ; Roy, S. ; Olston, C. ; Cho, J. ; Chakrabarti, S., Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2005
- A Scalability Service for Dynamic Web Applications Olston, C. ; Manjhi, A. ; Garrod, C. ; Ailamaki, A. ; Maggs, B. M. ; Mowry, T. C., Proceedings of the Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2005
- Finding (Recently) Frequent Items in Distributed Data Streams Manjhi, A. ; Shkapenyuk, V. ; Dhamdhere, K. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2005
- Efficient Monitoring and Querying of Distributed, Dynamic Data via Approximate Replication Olston, C. ; Widom, J., IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, special issue on In-Network Query Processing (invited article), 2005
- What's New on the Web? The Evolution of the Web from a Search Engine Perspective Ntoulas, A. ; Cho, J. ; Olston, C., Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference, 2004