Jan
O. Pedersen
Jan
O. Pedersen is currently Chief Scientist for the Search and Advertising Technology Group of Yahoo!.
Pedersen began his career at Xerox's Palo
Alto Research Center (PARC) where he managed a research program on information access technologies. In 1996 he joined Verity (recently purchased by Autonomy) to manage their advanced technology program. In 1998 Dr. Pedersen joined Infoseek/Go
Network, a first generation Internet search engine, as
Director
of Search and Spidering. In 2002 he joined Alta Vista as Chief Scientist. Alta Vista has later acquired by Overture, which was in turn acquired by Yahoo!.
Dr. Pedersen holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford
University and a BA in Statistics from Princeton
University. He is credited with more than ten issued
patents and has authored more than twenty refereed
publications on information access topics, seven of which are
in
the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
proceedings.
Contact
Info
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Email:
Yahoo!
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale,
Ca 94089
(408)349-5107
Recent Public Presentations
- Sponsored Search: Theory and Practice. AIRWeb 2006:
August 2006. [pdf]
- The Four Dimensions of Search Engine Quality. UC Berkeley SIMS141:
Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. Sept. 2005. [pdf]
- Internet Search Engines: Past and Future. The 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005). Chiba Japan, May 2005. [pdf]
Bio,
Resume, Publications
Last Edited: 2/26/2006