Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Research Area: Search Technologies
Location: Yahoo! Research Barcelona

Profile

Born in Chile, studied in Chile & Canada, previously full professor at Univ. of Chile and ICREA research professor at UPF in Barcelona. Co-author of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) among other books and publications. Member of the ACM, AMS, IEEE (Senior), SIAM and SCCC, as well as the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Awards from American Organization States, Institute of Engineers of Chile, and COMPAQ. Main hobby: applied geography.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! at SIGIR 2008 - The 31st Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) brought together a diverse group of over 500 attendees from academia and industry to the exotic island-nation of Singapore. Yahoo! was in the spotlight once again, snapping up three slots on the list of fully accepted papers, and six posters.
  • Yahoo! Research Leads Technical Program at WSDM 2008 Debut - Yahoo! Research led the technical program at WSDM, authoring one-fifth of the accepted papers and holding several positions on the program committees.
  • Yahoo! Shines at KDD Conference - Yahoo! was in the spotlight at the 13th annual ACM SIGKDD, the premier international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, held August 12th-15th in San Jose.
  • Baeza-Yates delivers ECML Keynote Address - Ricardo Baeza-Yates had the honor of presenting the keynote address at this year’s European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge (PKDD).
  • Yahoo! Research Celebrates Chile Opening - Yahoo! Research inaugurated a research center at the University of Chile, Santiago on Friday, November 3.
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