Yahoo Opens Research Lab in Israel
The internet giant Yahoo has announced the launch of a new research lab in Haifa, Israel. The Yahoo Research Israel Lab, Yahoo first in the region, will be led by Dr. Ronny Lempel, an information organisation and retrieval expert who will report directly to Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, vice president of Yahoo Research. This will focus on boiling down complex technology problems into simple solutions to change the game in Web search, says the company. Yahoo recently opened Yahoo Labs - Bangalore and appointed eminent scientist Dr. Rajeev Rastogi to head the new India lab. “Search is still in its infancy,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research. “At Yahoo, we are working on the hard core science that can lead to search experiences that are significantly beyond the current art.” He added that Ronny Lempel was a great addition to the Yahoo! team that they have assembled to develop a new approach to Web search. Lempel previously worked at the Information Retrieval Group at IBM’s Haifa Research Lab, focusing on research and development for enterprise search systems. “Israel is fertile ground for incredibly talented technologists, researchers and engineers” Lempel said. “I look forward to building the Haifa team with the best talent this region has to offer.”
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