Yahoo! Labs

Yahoo! Labs[1] is a division of Yahoo! responsible for research into the science of the Internet and creating the next generation of businesses for Yahoo!. Yahoo! Labs scientists and engineers concentrate on computer science, ranking, machine learning, microeconomics (such as mechanism design and auction theory), human computer interaction, sociology and information retrieval, among others. Yahoo! Labs is led by Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan.

Yahoo! Labs is organized into five areas of focus:

Employees include Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrei Broder, Preston McAfee, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ronald J. Brachman, and Raghu Ramakrishnan.

Yahoo! Labs is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and Santa Clara, CA; it has five additional locations worldwide: Barcelona, Spain; Santiago, Chile; New York; Haifa, Israel; and Bangalore, India.

Yahoo! Labs’ Research group is divided into five teams:

References

  1. ^ "Yahoo! Labs" http://labs.yahoo.com
  2. ^ "Yahoo! Research" http://www.research.yahoo.com
  3. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Advertising Sciences" http://labs.yahoo.com/Advertising_Sciences
  4. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Audience Sciences" http://labs.yahoo.com/Audience_Sciences
  5. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Search Sciences" http://labs.yahoo.com/Search_Sciences
  6. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Academic Relations" http://labs.yahoo.com/Academic_Relations
  7. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Search and Web Mining" http://research.yahoo.com/Search_and_Web_Mining
  8. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Machine Learning" http://research.yahoo.com/Machine_Learning
  9. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Economics and Social Systems" http://research.yahoo.com/Econ_and_Social_Sys
  10. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Computational Advertising" http://research.yahoo.com/Computational_Advertising
  11. ^ "Yahoo! Labs Web Information Management" http://research.yahoo.com/Web_Information_Management

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