News and Articles

  • Yahoo! Heats Up at KDD 2008 (September 04, 2008)
    Aside from earning the honor of 9 out of 95 total accepted research track papers this year and 1 accepted industrial/government applications track paper, Yahoo! took home the highest technical award from the conference for the 2nd year in a row: the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award.
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  • Yahoo! Research Barcelona Has Moved (September 04, 2008)
    Researchers and staff at Yahoo! Research Barcelona packed up their belongings and relocated their office a short distance away to the 22@Barcelona District, also known as the Innovation District.
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  • Yahoo! Scores Big at KDD and VLDB (August 20, 2008)
    Check out the full list of accepted papers from the upcoming 14th ACM SIGDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 08) and 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008).
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  • Yahoo! at SIGIR 2008 (August 14, 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.
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  • Big Thinker Eric Brewer: Life-Changing Technology (August 14, 2008)
    For most of us, technology plays a dominant role in our everyday lives. But for the four billion people in third-world countries who earn less than two dollars a day, technology has barely made a dent. Dr. Eric Brewer is trying to change that.
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