Keynote details finalized
I’m delighted to say that the details for the LISA 2005 keynote have been finalized. We’re very lucky to have Dr. Qi Lu, Vice President of Engineering of Yahoo! Inc. open the conference.
Scaling Search Beyond the Public Web
What’s next in “search?” Scaling, fault tolerance, and storage management become a lot more exciting when we go from the colossal scale of Yahoo! to the challenges of searching not just the public web, but your desktop, email, bookmarks and other repositories of information like your on-line communities. This talk introduces Yahoo!’s personal and social search initiative, and focuses on technology infrastructure that can store, index and search user and community content on a massive scale. Specific topics also include storage management, fault tolerance, metrics and real-time monitoring, and much more.
Dr. Qi Lu is a VP of Engineering of Yahoo! Inc. responsible for the technology development of Yahoo’s Search and Marketplace businesses unit, which includes the company’s search, e-commerce, and local listings businesses and products. Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before that, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. He holds 20 US patents, and received his BS and MS in Computer Science from Fudan University and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.