Yahoo! Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chosen as 2006 Fellow by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).Fayyad Joins Three Other ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, www.acm.org) A membership organization founded in 1947 dedicated to advancing the arts and sciences of information processing. In addition to awards and publications, ACM also maintains special interest groups (SIGs) in the computer field. Fellows and Two ACM Distinguished Scientists at Yahoo!; Yahoo! Research Yahoo! Research[1] is a research organization established on January 2004[2] within Yahoo!. It is currently headed by Prabhakar Raghavan[3]. Continues Scientific and Technical Excellence in 2006 SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, has been chosen as a 2006 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Fayyad was recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of machine learning and data mining and for his significant scientific and commercial applications in the field of knowledge discovery in databases. As Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of research & strategic data solutions, Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, as well as overseeing the Yahoo! Research organization. Fayyad is recognized as one of the founders of the field of data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. He was founding editor-in-chief of the primary scientific technical journal in the field for 10 years and was founding editor-in-chief of the ACM Newsletter: SIGKDD SIGKDD Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining (ACM) Explorations from 1997 to 2002. He has published over 100 technical articles in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Databases. He has also chaired several major international conferences in these fields. His record spans basic technical scientific contributions to building products in major systems such as Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. and other database platforms. Fayyad founded two successful high-tech startups prior to joining Yahoo!'s senior executive team. In continued demonstration of Yahoo!'s world-class Research team, Fayyad joins three current ACM Fellows at Yahoo!: Ron Brachman, vice president, Yahoo! Research operations; Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research and Raghu Ramakrishnan Raghu Ramakrishnan is a renowned researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is currently a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Previously, he was a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. , vice president, Yahoo! Research. In addition to Fayyad's honor, newly appointed 2006 ACM Distinguished Scientists from Yahoo! include Jan Pedersen
ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges. The ACM Fellows and Distinguished Scientist programs were both established to recognize outstanding ACM members for technical, professional and leadership contributions. "Yahoo! Research is focused on hiring the leading researchers around the globe in the fields of search, machine learning, microeconomics microeconomics Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final , social media, and more," said Fayyad. "We are creating the sciences underlying the next generation of the Internet, and we encourage our researchers to share their findings with the academic community, producing a shared intellectual commons that benefits the entire industry. The recognition we have received in the last year is indicative of the innovative work we are doing." Other recent recognition for Yahoo! Research includes the Test of Time Award at the 2006 ACM SIGMOD SIGMOD Special Interest Group On Management of Data International Conference on Management of Data and the 2007 Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award at the annual gathering of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (or IJCAI) a meeting of researchers from the different areas of artificial intelligence (AI). It is organized by the IJCAI, Inc. (IJCAI IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI International Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence ). Ramakrishnan received the Test of Time Award for a paper he co-authored entitled, "BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases." The Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings ten years prior, based on the criterion of identifying the paper that has had the most impact over the intervening decade. Finally, Brachman will be awarded the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award at IJCAI later this month. In keeping with the mission of the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, Brachman will be recognized for his substantial contributions and extensive service to the field of artificial intelligence throughout his career. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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