The 20th International World Wide Web (WWW 2011) conference attracted top researchers, students, developers and web-focused companies to the historic host city of Hyderabad, India, March 28 - April 1. The comprehensive program featured 90 research papers, 89 posters and 25 demos, while leaving enough time to explore India and enjoy the Cricket World Cup (Congrats India!).
I was extremely impressed by the number and variety of results in social network analysis that were presented at the conference. This new field and its possible applications to behavior
I was extremely impressed by the number and variety of results in social network analysis that were presented at the conference. This new field and its possible applications to behavior
al networks will undoubtedly impact the way in which we analyze data in the future.
As an active member of the global web community, Google contributed to the conference in several ways. In addition to being a gold sponsor, one Googler served as panel chair and another Googler as a track co-chair. Furthermore, several Googlers were reviewers.
Googlers co-authored the following papers:
Milgram-Routing in Social Networks by Silvio Lattanzi*, Alessandro Panconesi and D. Sivakumar
SEISA: Set Expansion by Iterative Similarity Aggregation by Yeye He and Dong Xin*
Efficiently Evaluating Graph Constraints in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe by Andrei Broder, Shirshanka Das, Marcus Fontoura*, Bhaskar Ghosh, Vanja Josifovski, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram*
Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion by Ziv Bar-Yossef* and Naama Kraus
Milgram-Routing in Social Networks by Silvio Lattanzi*, Alessandro Panconesi and D. Sivakumar
SEISA: Set Expansion by Iterative Similarity Aggregation by Yeye He and Dong Xin*
Efficiently Evaluating Graph Constraints in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe by Andrei Broder, Shirshanka Das, Marcus Fontoura*, Bhaskar Ghosh, Vanja Josifovski, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram*
Context-Sensitive Query Auto-Completion by Ziv Bar-Yossef* and Naama Kraus
In addition, Googlers presented the following poster and demo:
Detecting Group Review Spam by Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Junhui Wang, Natalie Glance*, Nitin Jindal*
Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Political Misinformation in Microblog Streams by Jacob Ratkiewicz, Mark Meiss*, Michael Conover, Bruno Concalves, Snehal Patil, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
Detecting Group Review Spam by Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Junhui Wang, Natalie Glance*, Nitin Jindal*
Detecting and Tracking the Spread of Political Misinformation in Microblog Streams by Jacob Ratkiewicz, Mark Meiss*, Michael Conover, Bruno Concalves, Snehal Patil, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer
And Googlers gave the following tutorials:
Google Cloud services for Big Data by Patrick Chanezon*, Rajdeep Dua*
Managing Crowdsourced Human Computation by Panagiotis Ipeirotis, Praveen Paritosh*
Web-Based Open-Domain Information Extraction by Marius Pasca*
Finally, Googlers co-organized the following workshops:
AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011)
Organizers: Carlos Castillo, Zoltan Gyongyi*, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
Program Committee Members: James Caverlee, Gordon Cormack, Matt Cutts*, Brian Davison, Dennis Fetterly, Andrew Flanagin, Miriam Metzger, Andrew Tomkins*, Masashi Toyoda, Steve Webb, Min Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou
DiversiWeb 2011: First International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web
Organizers: Elena Simperl, Denny Vrandecic, Devika Madalli and Enrique Alfonseca*
AIRWeb Workshop on Web Quality (WebQuality 2011)
Organizers: Carlos Castillo, Zoltan Gyongyi*, Adam Jatowt, Katsumi Tanaka
Program Committee Members: James Caverlee, Gordon Cormack, Matt Cutts*, Brian Davison, Dennis Fetterly, Andrew Flanagin, Miriam Metzger, Andrew Tomkins*, Masashi Toyoda, Steve Webb, Min Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou
DiversiWeb 2011: First International Workshop on Knowledge Diversity on the Web
Organizers: Elena Simperl, Denny Vrandecic, Devika Madalli and Enrique Alfonseca*
We're pleased to add to the conversation and advancement of the state of the web. We’re already looking forward to WWW 2012 in Lyon.
Au revoir!
Silvio Lattanzi
Research Scientist
Research Scientist
* Denotes a Googler.
A view from our booth at WWW:
Each year, WWW 2011 brings together thinkers from industry and academia who are interested in the web and what it might become in the future. Hyderabad, nicknamed Cyberabad, was a fitting host city as it is a major hub of India's booming high tech industry. In March, I traveled to Hyderabad to interact with conference goers, represent Google and meet my peers from around the world. At the conference, I spent time at the Google booth, which looked like a miniature version of a Google office, complete with bean bags, Legos and cartoon animals drawn on the whiteboard. A major draw to our booth was "Query Hunt", a game in which players are challenged to find the shortest possible query that can return each of eight URLs as the top result. The game’s top scores were seriously impressive (8-9 characters per page), and one person even wrote a program to find the optimal queries (but sadly didn't win).
When I attended WWW last year, I had not yet decided to join Google. Talking with Googlers at the conference helped me realize that I’d have access to unparalleled resources in order to do better research. This year it was fun to be on the other side of the bean bag, talking to top researchers about life inside the Googleplex.
Finally, it was impossible to be in India that week and not notice the Cricket World Cup. On the evening of the India vs. Pakistan World Cup cricket match, we entertained 175 researchers, engineers and academic colleagues at our Google After Hours party. We served up snacks, drinks, desserts, Indian fusion music beats and a live-stream of the match.
Until next year,
Rob Ennals
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
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