Seminar by Dr. Krishna Bharat
Information Retrieval
Dr. Krishna Bharat
Google India R & D Centre
Google, Bangalore
Date: Thu, Nov 04, 2004
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: L2
Abstract
Search engines have changed the way people access information in their daily lives. They find needles in massive, electronic haystacks in the blink of an eye. Web information retrieval is a new field that extends the science of search to terabyte scale, online collections. This talk will cover:
- The similarities and differences between classical and web information retrieval
- The development of link-based retrieval methods in conjunction with text-based methods for searching the web
- Infrastructure for processing the web graph and computing on web-scale collections
About the Speaker
Krishna Bharat heads Google's new R&D Centre in Bangalore, India. Google Engineering is expanding globally. Recently, Google R&D Centres were established in Zurich, Bangalore and Tokyo to tap local engineering and linguistic expertise, transplant Google's culture of innovation, and meet the needs of a global user base. Krishna is a Principal Scientist at Google Inc, working in area of UI and algorithmic support for Web search and content analysis (Web Information Retrieval). He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 1996 and a BTech from IIT-Madras in 1991. Before joining Google in 1999, he was a member of the research staff at DEC Systems Research Center in Palo Alto, CA. Recently, he created Google News (http://news.google.com/) a computer generated newspaper that unifies news from online newspapers worldwide with an emphasis on diversity and balance.