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Btw, this is one of the areas where Yahoo! has a lot of success. Yahoo! Research in its current form exists for around 5 years, but it has already surpassed MIT

Btw, this is one of the areas where Yahoo! has a lot of success. Yahoo! Research in its current form exists for around 5 years, but it has already surpassed MIT.

St-Clock 16y ago
I'm not sure who voted you up, but the second part of this comment looks trollish (apologies if it wasn't). For a starter, this is a very small subset of computer science conferences (e.g., the main software engineering and programming language conferences are missing). I'm not sure in which field Yahoo! Research works (looks like data mining), but in SE and PL, they are inexistent. Best paper awards are just one metric among many. Citations, venue impact factor, number of publications are other (imperfect) metrics. It's probably fair to say that MIT and other big universities and corporate labs (IBM and Microsoft) have high scores in all of these metrics, whereas Yahoo! Research is still too young and too small to compete with even smaller but dynamic universities w.r.t. these metrics.
gnosis 16y ago
According to what metric?
- mahmud 16y ago
  Here is at least one metric. In that link, scroll down to the bottom. Yahoo Research has 7.6 "points" while MIT has 5.8. Lifshits is a research scientist at Y!R.
  - gnosis 16y ago
    This is very interesting. Taken at face value, it looks like corporations are buying up all the best computer science researchers. I wonder what long-term effects this will have on the computer field and on computer science research at universities.
  - ra 16y ago
    This is a very limited metric. By the same vein Microsoft is the best of the best.
    - sp332 16y ago
      Not Microsoft, it's Microsoft Research. They probably are the best of the best. The cameras and firmware for the Kinect were made there, for example. http://research.microsoft.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/
- yurylifshits 16y ago
  Only according to this list. I totally understand how incomplete and random this metric is to measure the real impact. Regarding "buying brains", being at Y!R is a great experience for me and it matches all the perks of being in academia (you can publish almost anything, work with students, teach at universities if you want, etc).

Btw, this is one of the areas where Yahoo! has a lot of success. Yahoo! Research in its current form exists for around 5 years, but it has already surpassed MIT.

St-Clock 16y ago

I'm not sure who voted you up, but the second part of this comment looks trollish (apologies if it wasn't). For a starter, this is a very small subset of computer science conferences (e.g., the main software engineering and programming language conferences are missing). I'm not sure in which field Yahoo! Research works (looks like data mining), but in SE and PL, they are inexistent. Best paper awards are just one metric among many. Citations, venue impact factor, number of publications are other (imperfect) metrics. It's probably fair to say that MIT and other big universities and corporate labs (IBM and Microsoft) have high scores in all of these metrics, whereas Yahoo! Research is still too young and too small to compete with even smaller but dynamic universities w.r.t. these metrics.

gnosis 16y ago

According to what metric?

mahmud 16y ago
Here is at least one metric. In that link, scroll down to the bottom. Yahoo Research has 7.6 "points" while MIT has 5.8. Lifshits is a research scientist at Y!R.
- gnosis 16y ago
  This is very interesting. Taken at face value, it looks like corporations are buying up all the best computer science researchers. I wonder what long-term effects this will have on the computer field and on computer science research at universities.
- ra 16y ago
  This is a very limited metric. By the same vein Microsoft is the best of the best.
  - sp332 16y ago
    Not Microsoft, it's Microsoft Research. They probably are the best of the best. The cameras and firmware for the Kinect were made there, for example. http://research.microsoft.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/
yurylifshits 16y ago
Only according to this list. I totally understand how incomplete and random this metric is to measure the real impact. Regarding "buying brains", being at Y!R is a great experience for me and it matches all the perks of being in academia (you can publish almost anything, work with students, teach at universities if you want, etc).