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Friday, 28th August 2009

Using Personal Information to Improve Search Results and Other Innovators

A profile of Jaime Teevan, a researcher at Microsoft. She was named to the 2009 Technology Review TR35 (Young Innovators Under 35).

From the Article:

By now, personal information management has become an Internet buzzword. But Teevan pioneered the field as a graduate student working with David Karger, a professor in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. "She literally almost single-handedly created this whole area," says Eric Horvitz, a principal researcher who manages teams pursuing advances in search and retrieval at Microsoft Research.

She began by studying how people search the Internet. They use such different strategies, she found, that a one-size-fits-all search engine can never satisfy everyone. So Teevan started building tools that sort Internet search results according to a user's personal data, previous searches, and browsing history.

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+ Michael Backes

Software designed by Michael Backes, a professor in the information security and cryptography group at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, can prove in less than a second whether an Internet protocol is truly secure.

+ Jeffrey Bigham

As a graduate student at the University of Washington, Jeffrey Bigham created WebAnywhere, a free screen reader that can be used with practically any Web browser on any operating system--no special software required. Users start at webanywhere.cs.washington.edu; from there, they can use keyboard commands to navigate to any Web page.

+ Jeffrey Heer

Lists of numbers often don't mean as much as charts, graphs, and interactive graphics that can reveal unexpected trends. To help people make them, Jeff Heer, an assistant professor of computer science, led a project that created easy-to-use open-source visualization software called Protovis.

+ Vik Singh

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+ Biomedicine
+ Business

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