e2e “The Future of Search and Information Discovery”
If you own a small business or your thinking of starting one, please make plans to attend the "The Future of Search and Information Discovery" presented by The Wyoming Technology Business Center and learn about Cloud Computing from a guru of the computer industry.
Raghu Ramakrishnan a Yahoo Chief Scientist will present a seminar, Wednesday September 21 at 5:30 pm at the Hilton Garden Inn in Laramie.
Schedule
5:30 - 6:15 e2e Networking: Our program begins with 45 minutes of networking combined with mouth-watering hors d'oeuvres. Many of Laramie's entrepreneurs, small business owners, business service providers and people who support small business in Wyoming will be there. We are expecting a great turnout. Don't forget to RSVP!
6:20 - 7:00 Featured Speaker: We're proud to welcome Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Search and Cloud Platforms at Yahoo!. Raghu is a Yahoo! Fellow and heads the Web Information Management research group. His work in database systems, with a focus on data mining, query optimization, and web-scale data management, has influenced query optimization in commercial database systems and the design of window functions in SQL:1999.
Ramakrishnan was Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was founder and CTO of QUIQ, a company that pioneered crowd-sourcing, specifically question-answering communities, powering Ask Jeeves’ AnswerPoint as well as customer-support for companies such as Compaq.
His current research interests are in cloud computing, content optimization, and the development of a “web of concepts” that indexes all information on the web in semantically rich terms.
Don't miss the opportunity to hear from a Yahoo! Fellow and Scientist about the future of search and information discovery!
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