[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Event: Next-Generation Search Systems Lecture Series

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Event:                           Four-Part Lecture Series:
Next-Generation Search Systems

 

Title:                             Lecture No. 2 - The Changing Face of
Web Search

            

Speaker:                       Bradley Horowitz, vice president, Product
Strategy Group, Yahoo!

 

Time:                            9:30 a.m.

 

Date:                            Monday, May 1, 2006

 

Location:                       Calit2 Building, Room 3008, UC Irvine

 

Abstract:                       Web search is now entering its second
decade. We identify and discuss several distinct phases of its
evolution.  Early attempts at organizing the Web (such as the Yahoo
Directory) relied on human editorial to classify Web sites.  The next
phase introduced massive automation and applied standard information
retrieval techniques. The next breakthrough was the realization that the
topology and link structure of the Web itself was crucial to improving
relevancy. This takes us to the modern era of Web search, and while
there are many dimensions that can be improved (comprehensiveness,
relevancy, freshness, user-experience, etc.) we will discuss what Yahoo
believes to be the next important phase in the state of the art: social
search. The concept and attendant technical challenges of social search
will be discussed and presented, as well as the disclosure of Yahoo's
progress and strategy in this area.

 

Bio:                              Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo!'s
product strategy group, is responsible for leading the company's efforts
in building innovative products and platforms. His expertise helps drive
initiatives that enable the company to provide comprehensive and
compelling offerings to customers. Previously he managed a portfolio of
products for Yahoo!, including media search, desktop search and the
Yahoo! Toolbar.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Horowitz served as both the chief technical
officer and the vice president of engineering for the Virage division of
Autonomy, where he was responsible for the technical delivery of five
major product lines. Prior to Autonomy, he co-founded Virage, the
company widely recognized as the market creator and leader for advanced
media indexing and analysis. Horowitz helped grow the company from "a
garage startup" through its NASDAQ IPO.

While a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab, he worked on a number
of topics related to computer vision, graphics and image processing,
which resulted in a patented new technique for the recovery of
structure, motion and camera parameters from video sequences. Horowitz
holds a master's degree in media science from MIT and a bachelor's
degree in computer science from the University of Michigan.

 

 

Additional Information:    Faculty sponsor is Ramesh Jain.

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