Yahoo Appoints New Data Mining Expert

Doctor Raghu Ramakrishnan will leave the land of badgers and Big Ten football for the opportunity to serve as a research fellow in Yahoo! Research. Ramakrishnan joins Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan, another Yahoo Answers community site with participation from luminaries like Stephen Hawking and Bono. Ramakrishnan spoke to Murdok briefly about his new position, and noted that Answers would be a project that he will likely work on initially; he also mentioned Delicious and Flickr. Plenty of other opportunities, both in academia and the private sector, avidly sought his services. But Yahoo managed to make the best case for his services. "Yahoo has far and away the most vibrant research program," Ramakrishnan said. That plus its status as a major Internet company, with plenty of data for a gifted researcher to work with, sealed the deal and brought him to the company. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.