[Colloquium] TTI-C Distinguished Lecture Series APRIL 1- Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research)

[Christina Novak]

Good morning, 

 

The Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago would like to invite you to
our 2008 Distinguished Lecture Series on the University of Chicago Campus. 

Our second speaker in the series will be Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan.  (Details,
see http://tti-c.org/dls)    

 

The lecture will be held at 3:30pm

Biological Sciences Learning Center (room 109- 1st floor)

924 East 57th St.

Chicago, IL 60637

 

 

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

 

"New sciences for a new web"

Prabhakar Raghavan (Yahoo! Research)

 

 

ABSTRACT:

The web has made a widely-hailed transition from its original incarnation to
a putative state of "Web 2.0". This transition has stemmed from the clever
use of AJAX and efficient grid computing to enhance a user's perception of
responsiveness and interaction. In the process, the web experience has
changed from a human interacting with a browser, to the emergence of a
plethora of social media experiences. One consequence is that moving beyond
the current notion of Web 2.0 demands research advances that straddle the
boundaries between computational and social sciences, the latter including
microeconomics, cognitive psychology and sociology. It also raises difficult
questions on the use of data - ranging from the algorithmic to the societal.

 

This lecture will attempt to chart this interdisciplinary research agenda,
arguing that the most influential research will require heavy interaction
between these "hard" and "soft" sciences.

 

 

 

 

We look forward to seeing you at the lecture.

 

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