News

Press:

2007

Robots.txt study and search engine, BotSeer, receive media attention.

Table search engine, TableSeer, announced.

Awards:

2007

"Extraction and Search of Chemical Formulae in Text Documents on the Web," Proceedings of the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), 251-260, 2007, nominated for best student paper award.

Professor Lee Giles has been awarded for 2006 the ACM Fellow. Of the over 80,000 ACM members worldwide, about 600 are ACM Fellows. Professor Giles is also an IEEE and INNS Fellow.

Presentations:

2007

Why Vertical Search, Sparta, July 5, Columbia, MD.

2006

Keynote Speaker, The Future of CiteSeer: CiteSeerx. 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and the 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML/PKDD 2006, Sept. 24, 2006, Berlin, Germany.

Information Science Colloquium, Next Generation CiteSeer: CiteSeer, Jan. 26, 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005

Artificial Intelligence Seminar, Next Generation CiteSeer, Dec. 13, 2005, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

URCS Seminars 2005-2006, Next Generation CiteSeer, Nov. 14, 2005, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

Papers:

D.R. Snow, M. Gahegan, C.L. Giles, K.G. Hirth, G.R. Milner, P. Mitra, J.Z. Wang, "Cybertools and Archaeology," Science, 311:958-959, 2006.

Systems:

Robots.txt search engine, BotSeer, available to search robots.txt worldwide.

Chemistry search engine and portal, ChemXSeer, comes online.
Automatic acknowledgement indexing available in CiteSeer as part of the CiteSeerx project.

Students:

Ding Zhou defends his dissertation, December 10, 2007.

Levent Bolelli defends his dissertation, July 6, 2007.

Issac Councill defends his dissertation, Aug. 30, 2006.

Seyda Ertekin was selected to participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Oct. 4-7, 2006.