WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 23, 3:45 pm.
WHERE: Room 217, Ferguson Hall, City Campus
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 17, 2003 -- A senior research scientist with Google, the Internet search engine, will speak Oct. 23 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Mehran Sahami will present "The Past, Present and Future of Web Information Retrieval" at 3:45 p.m. in Room 217 of Ferguson Hall on the UNL City Campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
At Google, Sahami conducts research in machine learning technologies to help improve information access. He is also a lecturer in computer science at Stanford University, where he teaches classes in programming methodology and discrete mathematics.
Sahami previously managed the data mining research and development group at Epiphany for several years and was involved in a number of machine learning research projects at Stanford, Xerox PARC, SRI International and Microsoft Research.
His lecture is a part of the annual colloquium series presented by the UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
CONTACT: LaRita Lang, Administrative Coordinator, Computer Science & Engineering, (402) 472-3826
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Posted by Tom Simons, Office of University Communications
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