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New DLRL Website
December 6, 2007: We have launched the new DLRL website. Some parts are still being reconstructed, so please bear with us till we get all parts back up and running! DLRL alum Dr. Wensi Xi determined to be center of SIGIR universe! August 22, 2007: The SIGIR (Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval) conference, the preeminent conference in information retrieval, announced today that Wensi Xi, who earned his PhD in the Digital Library Research Lab in 2006, is the center of the SIGIR universe.
To determine this, they analysed all SIGIR
proceedings and built a social network in which SIGIR authors are the
nodes and edges are added between nodes if two authors co-authored a
SIGIR paper together. The author that is most central in the network
is the one that has the shortest average distance to all other authors,
where the distance is 1 if two authors wrote a SIGIR paper together,
it is 2 if the first author wrote a paper with someone who wrote a
paper with the second author, etc. Dr. Xi's wide career experience (he worked at Microsoft, and now works for Google), plus his large number of academic co-authors, no doubt contributed to his "win".
Prestigious Grants from CNPq Awarded to Two DLRL Alumni December 20, 2006. Two DLRL alumni recently received career grants from CNPq, Brazil. Marcos André Gonçalves finished his PhD with us, as follows: |
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