Monday, October 11, 2010

HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Additional Contributors to Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Test Bed

HP, Intel and Yahoo! Attract Additional Contributors to Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Test Bed: "

PITTSBURGH, Pa., September 27, 2010 – HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced that four new organizations will join Open Cirrus™, a global, multiple data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The announcement coincides with the 4th Open Cirrus Summit hosted by Carnegie Melon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh in cooperation with HP and Yahoo!


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Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities

Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities: "







Last week, Yahoo! Labs scientist Elizabeth Churchill and Pomona College's Sara Owsley Sood presented their paper, Anger Management: Using Sentiment Analysis to Manage Online Communities', at the Grace Hopper conference in Atlanta, Georgia.


Below is a list of the coverage in Scientific America and WIRED.


Anger Management for Online Trolls


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Monday, August 30, 2010

Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet

Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet: "







Originally aired on KGO-TV (ABC) on August 11, 2010

By David Louie


Search engines like Google or Yahoo! know a lot about what you search for, but they also are learning a lot about you. Yahoo has several hundred research scientists on the prowl. ABC7 went to see what they are up to.


As good as search engines are, there is an important question that cannot be answered with a few keystrokes.


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Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science

Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science: "







Originally Published on Wired.com on August 17, 2010

By Ryan Singel


Imagine a world where your favorite webpage doesn’t even exist until you go there, and then it’s exactly what you hoped it would be, and it makes you viscerally happy. Prabhakar Raghavan is thinking about just that, and as the chief scientist for Yahoo! he’s actually in a position to make it possible.


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Three Reasons to Cloud Compute

The Three Reasons to Cloud Compute: "






This video explains how cloud computing is becoming essential to be competitive, to be green, and to enable innovation. It is produced and presented by Christopher Barnatt, author of "A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing", and Associate Professor of Computing and Future Studies in Nottingham University Business School. For more information on cloud computing please watch the other videos here or visit www.explainingcomputers.com

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Featured Researcher: Nilesh Dalvi

Featured Researcher: Nilesh Dalvi: "







Research Scientist Nilesh Dalvi couldn’t get enough of puzzles as a child. “My father is a connoisseur of puzzles and brainteasers,” he said, describing how he was deeply influenced. “I couldn’t wait to go to the stores to find the newest puzzles and games.”


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Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper : "Moving to the Cloud" proposed topic for V5.

Cloud Computing Use Cases White Paper : "Moving to the Cloud" proposed topic for V5.: "As previously posted, Version 4 of the Cloud Compouting Use Cases
White Paper was published June 30th and can be accessed at
[link] .

We asked for input for a topic for V5 and based on the feedback to
date, the topic "Moving to the Cloud" has percolated to the top.

As we move into Version 5 and Moving to the Cloud, a sample of the

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