Yahoo! India R&D - Big Thinkers Series - Talk by Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Vice President at Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America November 26, 2007

In this ocean of hyperlinked data there is explicit and implicit information and knowledge. Web Mining is the task of analyzing this data and extracting information and knowledge for many different purposes. We walk through this process and give specific examples.

Yahoo! India Research & Development invites you to the Big Thinkers India Series, where Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Vice President at Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America will share his insights and experience on ‘Web Mining: The Wisdom of the Crowds’. Ricardo is the co-author of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) among other books and publications. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), American Mathematical Society (AMS), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

There is no registration fee to attend the event. Further details about the program are available at: Big Thinkers India Series (http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/event_nov26_07.htm)

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The previous Talk Session of Big Thinkers India Series featured Andrew Tomkins, Director of Search Research at Yahoo! Research. Andrew spoke about some recent trends in web search, and the dynamics of online community formation, in various venues. A PhD from Carnegie Mellon University , Andrew has published over sixty technical papers, including two best paper awards from the World Wide Web conference. Click here to View Past Event

Speakers for Big Thinkers India Series bring with them the expertise and global perspective of the constantly changing world of technology, communities and Internet space in general. It provides a platform for scientists, academia, the government and industry to interact and chart new directions for research.

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