Recent News

Press/News:

2009

Professor Giles was privileged to walk and hood 4 new PhD's (Levent Bolelli, Seyda Ertekin, Yang Song, Qingzhao Tan) at Penn State's spring graduate commencement.

MobiSNA project demos at Alcatel-Lucent's 4G Symposium. Project discussed in the Daily Collegian.

CiteSeerX introduces table search for over one million tables.

2008

Information Today news story on CiteSeerX and SeerSuite.

Research on automatic table and plot extraction is reported on by New Scientist.

Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX, receives favorable reviews in various blogs.

2007

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

Table search engine, TableSeer, announced.

Recent Ph.D. graduates:

Ying Liu defends her dissertation, August 21, 2009.

Seyda Ertekin defends her dissertation, March 26, 2009.

Ziming Zhuang defends his dissertation, March 3, 2009.

Yang Song defends his dissertation, October 17, 2008.

Qingzhao Tan defends her dissertation, October 6, 2008.

Bingun Sun defends his dissertation, September 24, 2008.

Xiaonan Lu defends her dissertation, August 27, 2008.

Yang Sun defends his dissertation, August 25, 2008.

Ding Zhou defends his dissertation, December 10, 2007.

Levent Bolelli defends his dissertation, July 6, 2007.

Issac Councill defends his dissertation, August 30, 2006.

Previous Ph.D. graduates:

Sandip Debnath defends his dissertation, 2005.

Hui Han defends her dissertation, 2004.

Seung-Taek  Park defends his dissertation, 2004.

Awards:

2008

Professor Giles selected to speak at Penn State President Graham Spanier's New Student convocation.

Professor Giles nominated for IST Professor of the Year.

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.

Select Presentations:

2009

 SeerSuite: Foundations for Scientific and Academic Cyberinfrastructure, Metaweb Inc., February 5, San Francisco, CA.

2008

 The Future of the Web, Raytheon, May 1, State College, PA.

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

Systems:

CiteSeerX code available on SourceForge.

Next Generation CiteSeer, CiteSeerX, comes online in February, 2008.

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.