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Monday, August 01, 2005

Yahoo hires IBM search guru

Yahoo has announced the appointment of Dr Prabhakar Raghavan to head up its research department.

Raghavan was senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search firm Verity. Prior to Verity, he worked for 14 years in a variety of technical and managerial positions at IBM, including head of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies department at IBM's Almaden Research Center.

Yahoo said that Raghavan will lead research efforts in areas of search and information navigation, social media, community, personalisation and mobility.

He also holds over a dozen patents, including several on link analysis for web searching, and is a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University.

Raghavan has taught at Yale, and has been inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Resource: VNUNet

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