Web search as a computational challenge
Peter Norvig, Director of Research
Google
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Pacific Forum – 10:45 a.m.
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For users of the Internet, web search has emerged as the second most popular application, after email. For computer scientists, web search offers challenges in software infrastructure, distribution systems, information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language understanding. This talk will examine these challenges.
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