Search Solutions 2010Covent Garden, London

21 October 2010

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BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT

Mission

•Promote wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice

•Bring together industry, academics, practitioners and government to share knowledge, promote new thinking, inform the design of new curricula, shape public policy and inform the public

•Be a world-class organisation for IT

– 70,000 members including practitioners, businesses, academics and students, in the UK and internationally

•Deliver a range of professional development tools for practitioners and employees

•Offer a range of widely recognised qualifications

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Information Retrieval Specialist Group

•Traditional focus on text retrieval, but also:

– Knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, user experience, Information visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc.

•Busy events schedule

– Annual conference: ECIR

- Dublin 2011

– Various 1-day events

•Publisher of Informer

– books for review

•Provides discounts for various events

•Mailing list is free to join!

Search Solutions 2010

•Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007, 2008, 2009

•Practitioner oriented

•Organisers:

– Leif Azzopardi (Glasgow University)

– Alex Bailey (Google)

– Andy MacFarlane (City University)

– Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University)

– Tony Russell-Rose (Endeca)

•BCS London facilities

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Programme

10:10-11:25 Session 111:25-11:45 Coffee

11:45-13:00 Session 213:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Session 315:15-15:45 Tea

15:45-17:00 Session 4

17:00-17:30 Panel Session17:30-20:00 Drinks Reception

18:00-19:00 IRSG AGM

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Session One

10:10 - 10:35 Behshad Behzadi, Google

"Web Search Freshness"

10:35 - 11:00 Vishwa Vinay, Microsoft

"Click evidence - Signals and Tasks"

11:00 - 11:25 Vivian Lin Dufour, Yahoo!

"How to help searchers become better searchers"

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Session Two

11:45 - 12:10 Nick Patience, 451 Group

"The trends shaping the future of enterprise search 2010-2013"

12:10 - 12:35 Chirag Gandhi, mPhasis

"I Still haven't found what I am looking for..."

12:35 - 13:00 Dusan Rnic, Endeca

"Enterprise Search and its Evolution"

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Session Three

14:00 - 14:25 Greg Lindahl, Blekko

"Instant Indexing"

14:25 - 14:50 Charlie Hull, Flax

"What's the story with open source? --- Searching and monitoring news media with open-source technology"

14:50 - 15:15 Roberto Cornacchia, Spinque

"Search by strategy"

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Session Four

15:45 - 16:10 Till Kinstler, German Common Library Network

"Current trends in library search: From electronic card boxes to large scale, aggregated search engines"

16:10 - 16:35 Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility

"Scaling up innovation"

16:35 - 17:00 Rob Stacey, TrueKnowledge

"Reconciling facts: how to check the consistency of facts created from web crawling"

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Panel Session

• Yahoo’s Time Explorer: “lets users explore the future” & “allows users to view predictions that are yet to occur”

• What does it say about the way search will look in five years time?

– What will search look like in five years time?

– Which startups are most likely to change the commercial landscape?

– Which research ideas and prototypes will have become mainstream?

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