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 was led by Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan who has been replaced by Dr. Ron Brachman.

Yahoo! Labs is organized into five areas of focus:

Employees (current or former) include Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrei Broder, Preston McAfee, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ronald J. Brachman, Elizabeth F. Churchill and Raghu Ramakrishnan.

Yahoo! Labs is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA; it has six additional locations worldwide: Santiago, Chile; New York; Haifa, Israel; Beijing, China.

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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