The Future of Search

 

May 4, 2007

The Auditorium of the Berkeley Art Museum

University of California, Berkeley

CITRIS and NERSC Sponsored Research

http://www.citris-uc.org/FutureSearch

 

Videos of the Event

 

Final Event Agenda            Speakers Bio and Final Program

CITRIS and NERSC are organizing an event entitled, "The Future of Search" at the University of California, Berkeley on May 4, 2007. The goal is to have an interaction between UC Berkeley researchers and industry leaders in the search field; to help set an academic research agenda that is complementary to the needs of industry, as well as to discuss potential educational goals for students.

This event will examine the path towards the next generation of Search. This requires new technology for its development, engineering design and visualization. As the technological expertise for each component becomes increasingly complex, there is a need to better integrate them into a global model. The ultimate goal is to understand how we can fully mechanize search engines with cognitive and natural language capabilities. This event will endeavor to construct an overview of what is to come, to elucidate and formulate the main open questions in this grand quest and to highlight promising research directions.

Speakers:

Opening Remarks

Shankar Sastry, CITRIS Director

Horst Simon, NERSC Director

Click here for Final Full Agenda

 

Industry

Academic

Yahoo: Andrei Broder 

Yahoo: Andrew Tompkins

Yahoo: Doug Cutting

Google: Peter Norvig

Microsoft: Eric Brill

Microsoft:  Matt Hurst

Alexa-Amazon: Niall O'Driscoll

IBM: Jean Paul Jacob

Ianywhere-Sybase:  Babak Hodjat

Powerset: Barney Pell

Dabble: Mary Hodder

eBay: Neel Sundaresan

 

 

UCB: Marti Hearst

UCB: Stuart Russell

UCB: Lotfi A. Zadeh

U Washington: Oren Etzioni

UCB: Ken Goldberg

UCB: Avideh Zakhor

UCM: Shawn Newsam

UCB: Ruzena Bajcsy

UCB: Deirdre Mulligan

UCB: Masoud Nikravesh

 

Registration is Free, but it is Required. Thanks to our Sponsors.

Cognitive Computing: Other CITRIS and NERSC Sponsored Research Event

http://www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu/CognitiveComputing07/

http://www.citris-uc.org/CognitiveComputing07