I don’t write that much about core geeky search stuff here lately, but I still get a bit excited when I am reminded that once again, ACM’s SIGIR is happening. It’s always fun to take a look at the agenda and see who is speaking and presenting papers. And taking a look at the papers tells us something about what’s up in search, who’s adding value to the academic search community, and on what topics.
Microsoft has a stamp on this show, with, according to Microsoft, nearly 30% of all papers presented at the event.
John, thought you (and your readers) might find the Industry Track interesting:
http://sigir2009.org/Program/industry
Participants include:
* Matt Cutts, Head of Webspam Team, Google
* danah boyd, Social Media Researcher, Microsoft
* Vanja Josifovski, Principal Research Scientist, Yahoo!
* Evan Sandhaus, Semantic Technologist, New York Times
* Tip House, Chief Architect, OCLC
* Whit Andrews, VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
* Susan Feldman, VP of Search and Discovery Technologies, IDC
* Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch
* Marti Hearst, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
* Jeff Fried, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft (FAST)
* Raul Valdes-Perez, Executive Chairman, Vivisimo
* Adam Ferrari, Chief Technology Officer, Endeca
* Bruce Croft, Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts
* Elizabeth Liddy, Dean and Trustee Professor, Syracuse University
This year’s Gerard Salton Award given at SIGIR (http://sigir.org/awards/) also went to one of our colleagues, Susan Dumais, at Microsoft Research.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sdumais/
It’s funny that the first result for the query “sigir” on bing.com is the home page of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.