KSC 2011 Graduate Student Summit Talks
Get an exclusive look into the exciting research taking place at Yahoo! Labs by watching these talks from last year’s Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit.
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2010 UMass Winners (Video)
In 2010, two PhD students from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass), Sameer Singh and Michael Wick, won the Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) award for their research proposals.
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Yahoo! Announces Key Scientific Challenges Program Award Winners
The verdict is in for the Yahoo! 2010-2011 Key Scientific Challenges Program (KSC). Twenty-seven exceptional PhD students have been selected to receive this prestigious award in its third year.
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Invent the Future of the Internet
What are the big problems Yahoo! is working on? What are the major challenges facing our industry today? What will the next generation of the Internet look like and how will we get there? Yahoo! Labs scientists are asked these questions every day. The questions, and answers, have created some big opportunities for PhD students around the globe.
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23 Students, 16 Universities, 12 Scientific Challenges, 1 Bright Future
We’re happy to announce that we have selected 23 students from 16 world-class universities as our 2010 Key Scientific Challenges winners. They were selected based on their research proposals into the 12 different scientific challenges we believe are critical to fueling innovation on the Web.
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Yahoo! Invites Graduate Students to Help Invent the Future of the Internet
Second annual Key Scientific Challenges Program brings together top minds in academia and industry.
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To highlight the scientific challenge areas included in the program, we launched a series of guest blog posts on Yodel Anecdotal. Check out each of the posts!

• Web Information Management
• Computational Advertising
• Economics and Social Systems
• Privacy and Security
• Green Computing

Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit Brings Together Diverse Group
The two-day summit brought together winners of the updated KSC program which was launched in January 2009.
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Yahoo! Honors Future Thought Leaders Through Inaugural Key Scientific Challenges Program
The verdict is in for the Yahoo! 2009-2010 Key Scientific Challenges Program. Twenty exceptional PhD students have been selected to receive this prestigious award in its inaugural year.
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