The Future of Search May 4, 2007 The Auditorium of the Berkeley Art Museum University of California, Berkeley CITRIS-NERSC Sponsored Research Event http://www.citris-uc.org/FutureSearch http://www-bisc.eecs.berkeley.edu/FutureSearch 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. Agenda
The Future of Search
8.00  -	8.45	Registration
8:45 -	9:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00  - 9:15 -	9:15 9:30	Shankar Sastry, CITRIS Director Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Computing Sciences and NERSC Director
9.30  -	10.00	Andrei Broder (Yahoo)
10:00 -	10:30	Peter Norvig (Google)
10.30  -	10.45	Conversation with Refreshments
10.45  -	12.00	Panel- NLP Barney Pell (Powerset) Babak Hodjat (Ianywhere) Stuart Russell (UCB) Lotfi A. Zadeh (UCB) Oren Etzioni (U Washington)
12:00  -	1:00	Lunch
1:00  -	1:30	Marti Hearst (UCB)
1:30 -	2:00	Eric Brill (Microsoft)
2:00  -	3:30	Panel: Communities and Search Andrew Tompkins (Yahoo) Ken Goldberg (UCB) Matt Hurst (Microsoft) Jean Paul Jacob (IBM) Neel Sundaresan (eBay) Deirdre Mulligan (UCB)
3.30  -	3:45	Conversation with Refreshments
3.45  -	4.15	Niall O'Driscoll (Alexa-Amazon)
4:15 -	4:35	Doug Cutting (Yahoo)
4:35 -	6:00	Panel: Multi-Media Avideh Zakhor (UCB) Shawn Newsam (UCM) Ruzena Bajcsy (UCB) Mary Hodder (Dabble) Adam Beguelin (Truveo and AOL)
6:00 -		Closing Remark
6:15 -	7:30	Reception