8thWorkshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR’10)
Towards a Distributed Search Engine
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo!
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. Previously full pro- fessor at Univ. of Chile and ICREA research professor at UPF in Barcelona.
Co-author of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999) among other books and publications. Member of the ACM, AMS, IEEE (Senior), SIAM and SCCC, as well as the Chilean Academy of Sciences. Awards from American Organization States, Institute of Engineers of Chile, and COMPAQ.
His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information re- trieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database vi- sualization, and user interfaces.
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