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Search Solutions 2010

Search Solutions 2010. Covent Garden, London. 21 October 2010. BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT. Mission Promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice

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Search Solutions 2010

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  1. Search Solutions 2010 Covent Garden, London 21 October 2010

  2. BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT Mission • Promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice • Bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public • Be a world-class organisation for IT • 70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally • Deliver a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees • Offer a range of widely recognised qualifications Search Solutions 2010

  3. Information Retrieval Specialist Group • Traditional focus on text retrieval, but also: • Knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, user experience, Information visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc. • Busy events schedule • Annual conference: ECIR • Dublin 2011 • Various 1-day events • Publisher of Informer • books for review • Provides discounts for various events • Mailing list is free to join! Search Solutions 2010

  4. Search Solutions 2010 • Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007, 2008, 2009 • Practitioner oriented • Organisers: • Leif Azzopardi (Glasgow University) • Alex Bailey (Google) • Andy MacFarlane (City University) • Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University) • Tony Russell-Rose (Endeca) • BCS London facilities Search Solutions 2010

  5. Programme 10:10-11:25 Session 1 11:25-11:45 Coffee 11:45-13:00 Session 2 13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:15 Session 3 15:15-15:45 Tea 15:45-17:00 Session 4 17:00-17:30 Panel Session 17:30-20:00 Drinks Reception 18:00-19:00 IRSG AGM Search Solutions 2010

  6. Session One 10:10 - 10:35 Behshad Behzadi, Google "Web Search Freshness" 10:35 - 11:00 Vishwa Vinay, Microsoft "Click evidence - Signals and Tasks" 11:00 - 11:25 Vivian Lin Dufour, Yahoo! "How to help searchers become better searchers" Search Solutions 2010

  7. Session Two 11:45 - 12:10 Nick Patience, 451 Group "The trends shaping the future of enterprise search 2010-2013" 12:10 - 12:35 Chirag Gandhi, mPhasis "I Still haven't found what I am looking for..." 12:35 - 13:00 Dusan Rnic, Endeca "Enterprise Search and its Evolution" Search Solutions 2010

  8. Session Three 14:00 - 14:25 Greg Lindahl, Blekko "Instant Indexing" 14:25 - 14:50 Charlie Hull, Flax "What's the story with open source? --- Searching and monitoring news media with open-source technology" 14:50 - 15:15 Roberto Cornacchia, Spinque "Search by strategy" Search Solutions 2010

  9. Session Four 15:45 - 16:10 Till Kinstler, German Common Library Network "Current trends in library search: From electronic card boxes to large scale, aggregated search engines" 16:10 - 16:35 Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility "Scaling up innovation" 16:35 - 17:00 Rob Stacey, TrueKnowledge "Reconciling facts: how to check the consistency of facts created from web crawling" Search Solutions 2010

  10. Panel Session • Yahoo’s Time Explorer: “lets users explore the future” & “allows users to view predictions that are yet to occur” • What does it say about the way search will look in five years time? • What will search look like in five years time? • Which startups are most likely to change the commercial landscape? • Which research ideas and prototypes will have become mainstream? Search Solutions 2010

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