Research seminar: The Challenge of Internet Search

Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, will give a research seminar on January 23rd at 4:30pm, at the UPF room 102 (França building).

Seminar abstrat

The internet is the biggest ever collection of knowledge, news, opinions, rumors, untruths and contradictions that mankind has ever assembled. Sifting through this jumble of information to extract useful information is one of the biggest and most interesting challenges facing computer scientists, statisticians, mathematicians, sociologists and economists today. This talk explores these challenges.

Slides of a presentation he did on the same subject in 2005.

Prabhakar’s latest publications include: Geographic routing in social networks, Structure and evolution of blogspace, and Propagation of trust and distrust.