Yodel Anecdotal » awards http://ycorpblog.com Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:54:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Lights…Camera…Action! http://ycorpblog.com/2011/01/14/lights-camera-action/ http://ycorpblog.com/2011/01/14/lights-camera-action/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:20:05 +0000 Yahoo http://ycorpblog.com/?p=5488
This coming weekend kicks off the entertainment awards season and once again Yahoo! will be the place to catch all the wins, highlights and red carpet glamour. This year, we upped our game with a fantasy Pick ‘Em Game where users can vote for their choices and share their picks on Facebook. We’ve also improved our coverage of the awards season with more photo galleries, more videos, more blogs and a new template to house all the great content. We even have an in-depth look at what goes on behind the scenes at the Golden Globes as part of the “Road to the Awards” video series.

Our friends at Chrysler have partnered with us for the entire awards show season. Check out the Yahoo! Awards Show site here: http://awards.omg.yahoo.com

Here’s a schedule of the upcoming shows:

Sunday, January 16: Golden Globes Awards

Tuesday, January 25: Academy Awards nominations

Sunday, February 13: Grammy Awards

Sunday, February 27: Academy Awards

]]> http://ycorpblog.com/2011/01/14/lights-camera-action/feed/ 0 More reason to be proud of Yahoo!’s technical prowess http://ycorpblog.com/2008/02/08/more-reason-to-be-proud-of-yahoos-technical-prowess/ http://ycorpblog.com/2008/02/08/more-reason-to-be-proud-of-yahoos-technical-prowess/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:52:20 +0000 Usama Fayyad http://ycorpblog.com/2008/02/08/more-reason-to-be-proud-of-yahoos-technical-prowess/ prabhakar raghavan
We’ve just heard from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and it’s my great pleasure to share that our very own Head of Yahoo! Research, Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, has been elected to join their esteemed body of members for his significant contributions to algorithms and the structure of the Web. This outstanding distinction is a first at Yahoo! (and I imagine, not the last) and is among the highest professional honors in the engineering community. This recognition places him amongst the engineers who have made the most impact, across the United States, on technology that has profound effects on society. One of the highest forms of acknowledgement an engineer could get at a national level.

Over the past couple of years, Prabhakar has led and helped build our Yahoo! Research organization to examine some of the most complex problems facing the Internet. His extensive expertise in search algorithms (he literally wrote the book on it), understanding the fundamental structure of the Web, and the social phenomena emerging from it, continues to play an important role as we work to make Yahoo! the starting point on the Web. Yahoo! Research is charged with a simple but fundamentally powerful vision: “Invent the new sciences underlying the Internet and the new ineteractive media.”

Nothing is more inspiring to me than a collection of brilliant minds. Over the past four years, our research team has grown from one small lab into a world-class research organization with seven locations in four countries (and we’re not stopping there). Under Prabhakar’s leadership, Yahoo! Research is focused on creating and exploring groundbreaking technologies that will improve our users’ online experience, from understanding communities and the new economics of the Web to the new emerging science of computational advertising, and economics and social systems to advanced search technologies.

Thanks for making us proud, Prabhakar.

Usama Fayyad
Chief Data Officer & EVP of Research & Strategic Data Solutions

Photo from sigir2007.

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