Almaden Researchers Receive Top Honors at the WWW8 Conference

	The Eighth International World Wide Web Conference took place last week in Toronto, Canada. The four day forum featured research, technology, application innovations, societal issues, governmental issues, product offerings, services, and market potential delivered by internet technology leaders from around the globe. Kicked off by a keynote address from John Patrick, IBM's VP of Internet Technology, IBM's strong presence at the conference did not go unnoticed. "Our team really projected technical leadership this year and we were rewarded with two of the conference's highest awards", commented Prabhakar Raghavan, Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Manager for Almaden Research Center. Of the 48 papers that were accepted by the conference, three were written by Almaden Research Center staff, including the winners of the Best Paper Prize. Representation from Almaden Research Center included the following: Focused crawling for resource discovery Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom This paper won the Best Paper Prize Trawling the web for emerging cyber-communities Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Andrew Tomkins Surfing the web backwards Soumen Chakrabarti, David Gibson, Kevin McCurley Of 98 Poster papers accepted by the conference, 5 were presented by Almaden Researchers including: WebPlaces: Adding People to the Web Paul P. Maglio and Rob Barrett This presentation won the Best Poster Prize Outbound Information Analysis for Profiling and Active Email Matthias Eichstaedt, Qi Lu, Shang-Hua Teng, Daniel Ford, Udi Manber jCentral: Search the Web for Java Qi Lu, Reiner Kraft, Matthias Eichstaedt, Gabi Zodik, Ron Pinter, Daniel Ford, Dirk Nicol SumML: An Architecture for Summarizing the Web Neel Sundaresan, Daniel Ford Adding Dynamism to XML for Web Applications Using Java Neel Sundaresan, Susan B. Lee IBM's involvement in the conference was not limited to papers and posters: Neel Sundaresan gave a tutorial on XML. Prabhakar Raghavan chaired the following panel, "Finding Anything in the Billion-Page Web: Are Algorithms the Answer?".