Justin Rao, Yahoo! Research Scientist on the Economics of Choice
Posted August 3rd, 2011 at 12:08 pm by Yahoo
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As Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Yahoo! Labs mentioned yesterday, Yahoo! Is focused on using technology like its C.O.R.E. System, which powers Yahoo!’s popular “Today Module” to personalize the Yahoo! Experience for hundreds of millions of people. Yahoo! Labs has a number of talented scientists working on the science of personalization, including Justin Rao, who is developing economic models and theories for understanding why personalization is so popular with users and how much choice users want in their digital media experience, among other topics. We interviewed Justin last week. Check it out:

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Personalization Done Right -- The Harmony of Science and Human Insight at Yahoo!
Posted August 2nd, 2011 at 12:08 pm by Yahoo
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At last year’s Yahoo! Labs Summer Science Week we celebrated the five-year anniversary of Yahoo! Labs. This year at Summer Science Week 2011, we’re celebrating another momentous milestone – the popular “Today Module” (the set of revolving news stories you can see at the center of the page) on the Yahoo! ...

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