Workshop on "The Future of Web Search"

A workshop on “The Future of Web Search” organized by Yahoo! Research Barcelona and the Web Research Group of the University Pompeu Fabra will take place on May 19 in the Auditorium of Estacio de Francia building.

Preliminary list of speakers includes:

Paolo Boldi, Univ. di Milano, Italy
Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Research, USA
Carlos Castillo, Univ. di Roma, Italy
Paul-Alexandre Chirita, Univ. of Hannover, Germany
Debora Donato, Univ. di Roma, Italy
Devdatt Dubhashi, Chalmers University, Sweden
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary College, Univ. of London, UK
Ronny Lempel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
Massimo Melucci, Univ. de Padova, Italy
Alesandro Panconesi, Univ. di Roma, Italy
Knut Risvik, Google, Norway
Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Pisa, Italy
Andrew Tomkins, Yahoo! Research, USA
Panayiotis Tsaparas, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens UEB, Greece
Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research, Spain

For the occasion, Knut Magne Risvik, Technology Director at Google (formerly Chief Architect at Yahoo!) will give a research seminar to the UPF PhD students. (Knut’s talk on Java at Google)

Relation to my thesis: Curious to see how much and how the mobile web, geospatial web, ubicomp, internet of things scenarios are addressed by the people of the web search domain.