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08/15/2007 -
Yahoo! Garners Chief Data Officer Honors
Sunnyvale, California - () - August 15, 2007 - Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Data Solutions at Yahoo!, has garnered the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) 2007 Innovation Award.

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Chair of ACM SIGKDD offered, ''ACM SIGKDD is pleased to present Dr. Usama Fayyad with its 2007 Innovation Award. Dr. Fayyad made major contributions to the advancement of the data mining and knowledge discovery field, including machine learning and data mining algorithms that scale to large commercial database systems and the development of fundamental applications in mining massive science data sets that have lead to significant new scientific discoveries.''

ACM's SIGKDD Innovation Award is the highest technical award in the fields of data mining and knowledge discovery, recognizing individuals who have either driven significant innovations that have transferred to industry practice in impactful ways or who have significantly influenced the direction of research and development in these areas.

Dr. Fayyad's contributions span fundamental technical innovation and significant large-scale applications of science data analysis, commercial practice and commercial database systems. From his early work on applications of data mining and statistical pattern recognition to massive scientific data sets in Astronomy and Planetary Geology to co-authoring new SQL Extensions and leading development work for embedding data mining algorithms inside of Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 system, Dr. Fayyad has led significant scientific advances and new discoveries in these fields. Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Fayyad led two successful startups focused on data mining, business intelligence and targeting algorithms. At Yahoo!, Dr. Fayyad is responsible for the company's overall data strategy as well as overseeing the Yahoo! Research organization.

Dr. Fayyad remarked, ''This award highlights the importance of technical innovation in real applications and in building analysis systems at a massive scale and I'm honored to be recognized by my peers, leaders of the community and the field as a whole. At Yahoo!, advancements in data mining and knowledge discovery are making it possible for us to better understand how our customers use our products and what the future of the Internet experience will be. We are focused on creating advanced data insights technology that will enable Yahoo! to build next-generation web applications by learning about the dynamics and growth of online communities and the technologies for information navigation of the future.''

The award will be presented at the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Dr. Fayyad also presented the following plenary addresses: ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award Talk; and From Mining the Web to Inventing the New Sciences Underlying the Internet.

Yahoo! Research is focused on developing the science that will underlie the next generation of technologies and businesses helping to shape the future of the web. Yahoo! Research continues to be integrated closely with business units and product teams throughout the company, enabling the scientific approach and expertise of the organization to directly benefit Yahoo!'s consumers and advertisers. For example, Yahoo! has incorporated algorithmic research into the company's advanced platforms for social media and search, which allow users to find and share the information that they want, when they want. The company has also leveraged research on marketplace design and pricing mechanisms for sponsored search.

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