[Solomonov Seminar] 198. Solomonov seminar

[Marko Grobelnik]

V cetrtek 15. maja ob 11h (zunaj obicajnega termina!!!) bo v 
Fizikalnem seminarju (levo pritlicje glavne zgradbe IJS)
198. Solomonov seminar. Posnetki preteklih seminarjev
so na http://videolectures.net/solomon/

Tokrat bomo gostili Neela Sundaresana, direktorja razvoja podjetja eBay, 
ki je najvecje podjetje za spletne aukcije. Predstavil bo kako deluje sistem 
aukcij iz perspektive podjetja, kaksen obseg poslovanja imajo in kako
s svojimi uslugami dosegajo dolgi rep odjemalcev.

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Neel Sundaresan, eBay Research:

Title: "Searching, Finding,  Buying, Selling: Story of a Long tail Online Marketplace"
 
Abstract: In this talk we will present the personality of an Online Marketplace. 
This Online Marketplace has all the characteristics of an Offline Marketplace 
and more because of the simultaneous anonymity and familiarity of the buyers 
and sellers. The long tail nature of the transactions combined with differing 
capabilities, motives, and trust leads to a vibrant Social Commerce Network. 
We will present interesting technical challenges and opportunities in Finding, 
Classification, merchandizing and reputation systems. 
 
Bio: Dr. Neel Sundaresan is a Senior Director and Head of eBay Research Labs.  
His current areas of research interest include Social and Incentive Networks, 
Trust and Reputation Systems, Machine Learning as applied to Recommender
systems, Classification, Ontology, and Search. He has been with eBay
since 2005. Prior to joining eBay , he was a founder and CTO of a
startup focused on multi-attribute fuzzy search and network CRM. Prior
to this, he was the head of the eMerging Internet Technologies group
at the IBM Research Center. There he built the first XML-based Search
Engine. He was one of the early leaders in building XML technologies
including schema-aware compression algorithms, application component
generators and pattern-match systems and compilers. He built the first
RDF reference implementation as a W3C standard recommendation. He led
research work in other areas like domain specific search engines,
multi-modal interfaces and assistive technologies, semantic
transcoding, web mining, query systems, and classification for
semi-structured data. Prior to this he worked on C++ compiler and
runtime systems for massively parallel machines and for shared memory
systems and also on retargetable compilers, program translators and
generators. He has over 40 research publications and several patents
to his credit. He has been a frequent speaker at several national and
international technology conferences.  He has advised 2 PhD and
several masters dissertations. He has a degree in mathematics and a
masters in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Mumbai, India and a PhD in computer science from Indiana
University, Bloomington.  His dissertation was on Modeling Control and
Dynamic Data Parallelism in Object-Oriented Languages.