Search Engines Lecture
Speaker(s): Marc Najork, Microsoft Research
Monday, October 8, 2007, 10:00am-12:00pm
155 Kroeber Hall

Abstract

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Bio

Marc Najork joined Microsoft Research Silicon Valley in October 2001. He is currently working on heuristics for detecting "spam" web pages, and on link-based ranking algorithms for web search results. Past projects at Microsoft include Boxwood, a distributed B-Tree system, and PageTurner, a large-scale study of the evolution of web pages. He served as program co-chair of WWW2004, conference chair of WSDM 2008, and is an associate editor of JVLC and of ACM TWEB.

Before joining MSR, Marc spent 8 years at DEC's, then Compaq's (and now HP's) Systems Research Center. Projects at SRC included Mercator, a high-performance distributed web crawler, JCAT, a web-based algorithm animation system, and Obliq-3D, a scripting system for 3D animations.

Marc received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UIUC for his work on Cube, a 3D visual programming language.