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Read moreYahoo! Wins Best Paper at CIKM 2009 (November 12, 2009)Yahoo! Labs outperformed its previous year’s presence, taking the awards for best paper, best student paper, and runner-up student paper out of a record 30 accepted papers.
Read moreBig Thinker Ron Graham Presents "Computers and Mathematics: Problems & Prospects" (November 05, 2009) Read moreYahoo! at ACM International Conference on Multimedia (October 29, 2009)Yahoo! Labs had a prominent presence at the 2009 ACM International Conference on Multimedia held on October 19 -23, 2009 in Beijing, China.
Read moreYahoo! Leads CIKM Program with 30 Accepted Papers (October 08, 2009) Read moreIt’s official…Netflix Prize co-winner hails from Yahoo! (September 24, 2009) Read moreYahoo! looks to improve search experience (September 22, 2009) Read moreNetflix Awards $1 Million Netflix Prize (September 21, 2009)Yahoo's Yehuda Koren part of Netflix Prize winning team
Read moreKey Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit Brings Together Diverse Group (September 10, 2009)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.
Read moreHack is Back - Hack U 2009/2010 (September 03, 2009)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.
Read moreDr. Jeannette Wing Speaks at Yahoo! (August 06, 2009)Dr. Jeannette Wing spoke to Yahoo! scientists and engineers about the future of computational thinking.
Read moreYahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGIR (July 23, 2009)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".
Read moreYahoo! at KDD and SIGMOD (July 09, 2009)It was an exciting week as two major conferences took place concurrently during the week of June 28. The 15th ACM SGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining took place in Paris, while the annual ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference found its base in Providence. Yahoo! walked away the winner of the Best Paper Award at both conferences, in addition to earning a high number of accepted papers.
Read moreAward-Winning Paper Reveals Key to Netflix Prize (July 09, 2009)When the organizers of the Netflix Prize contest announced late last week that one team had met the requirement for the $1 million Grand Prize, Yehuda Koren, a member of the seven-person multinational team, was in Paris to present a paper at KDD-09, the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Read moreYahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2009 (July 01, 2009)The ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference was held June 29th to July 2nd in Providence, Rhode Island. Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava.
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