"The Future of Search" will examine the path towards the next generation of Search. This requires new technology for its development, engineering design and visualization. As the technological expertise for each component becomes increasingly complex, there is a need to better integrate them into a global model.

The Future of Search, 2007

May 4, 2007, UC Berkeley

This event will examine the path towards the next generation of Search. This requires new technology for its development, engineering design and visualization. As the technological expertise for each component becomes increasingly complex, there is a need to better integrate them into a global model. The ultimate goal is to understand how we can fully mechanize search engines with cognitive and natural language capabilities. This event will endeavor to construct an overview of what is to come, to elucidate and formulate the main open questions in this grand quest and to highlight promising research directions.

We are inviting faculty from UC in areas of search, computational intelligence/AI, vision, scientific computing, theoretical computer science, and information theory to speak at the event. We are also inviting our industry colleagues from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Sybase, Alexa-Amazon, and IBM.

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