[WebPub] TALK:Friday 4-3-09 The Web Changes Everything: How Dynamic Content Affects the Way People Find Online

[Lisa C. Mayer]

Anyone interested in joining me?

- lisa

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> Date: April 3, 2009 12:01:02 AM EDT
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> Subject: [HCI Seminar] TALK:Friday 4-3-09 The Web Changes  
> Everything: How Dynamic Content Affects the Way People Find Online
>

>
> HCI Seminar Series spring 2009
> The Web Changes Everything: How Dynamic Content Affects the Way  
> People Find Online
> Speaker: Jaime Teevan
> Speaker Affiliation: Microsoft Research
> Host: Rob Miller
> Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL
>
> Date: 4-3-2009
> Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
> Refreshments: 1:45 PM
> Location: Patil/Kiva Seminar Room 32-G449
>
> When you visit a colleague’s Web page, do the new papers she’s  
> posted jump
> out at you?  When you return to your favorite Web news site, is it  
> easy to
> find the front page article you saw yesterday?  The Web is a dynamic,
> ever-changing collection of information, and the changes can affect,  
> drive,
> and interfere with people’s information seeking activities.  This ta 
> lk will
> explore how and why people revisit Web content that has changed, and
> illustrate how understanding the association between change and  
> revisitation
> might improve browser, crawler, and search engine design.
>
> Speaker Biography:
> Jaime Teevan is a researcher in the Context, Learning, and User  
> Experience
> for Search (CLUES) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond,  
> Washington.  Dr.
> Teevan’s research interests lie at the intersection of human-comput 
> er
> interaction, information retrieval, and machine learning.  For her  
> doctoral
> thesis, she developed the Re:Search Engine, a system that helps  
> people return
> to information they have previously seen in a dynamic Web  
> environment.  She
> has also explored personalized search, the learning of probabilistic  
> retrieval
> models from textual data, and techniques to combine search and  
> navigation.
> She received a Ph.D. and S.M. from MIT and a B.S. in Computer  
> Science from
> Yale University.
>
> Relevant URL(S):
> For more information please contact: Michael Bernstein, (617)  
> 253-0452, msbernst at mit.edu
>
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