Learn About Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
- Posted February 19th, 2010 at 4:43 pm by Yahoo! Search
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What can search data tell you about people? How can you use search data to project the commercial success of movies, video games, and other products? These are just a few of the challenges from the microeconomics and social systems area of the 2010 Key Scientific Challenges Program that we announced on Jan. 27 this year.
The Key Scientific Challenges program is a competition that encourages top graduate students globally to collaborate with Yahoo! and help invent the future of the Internet. The competition focuses on a variety of scientific issues, from developing algorithms that turn raw information into personally relevant experiences, to discovering insights about online advertising and experimenting with new sociological models for how people engage with the Web.
Go to Yodel Anectotal to read a post by Sharad Goel from Yahoo! Labs, where he shares some thoughts on how Yahoo! is tackling the new opportunities for research into the social sciences that the Web is making possible.
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I think this is a great move by yahoo, all the giant companies now realize the importance of computer professionals from different parts of the world who has great minds but no opporturnities.
Thanks to Yahoo, to give such an immense oppurtunity to students and computer professionals to develop their knowledge and career.
I’m hoping this is taken quite seriously by graduate students. The primary value, is that it gave us a chance to sit down and publicly specify directions of research which would be valuable to make progress on. A good strategy for a beginning graduate student is to pick one of these directions, pursue it, and make substantial advances for a PhD. The directions are sufficiently general that I’m sure any serious advance has applications well beyond Yahoo.