Search Solutions 2007 - London, May 23
"Tony Rose" <[email protected]>
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BCS IRSG Search Solutions 2007 Wednesday 23rd May BCS London HQ, Covent Garden Search Solutions is a special one-day event devoted to the interests and needs of information retrieval practitioners. This event explores the challenges involved in designing and developing practical solutions for information search and retrieval, and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in industry and academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial organisations to share their work with a wider audience, and for researchers to learn more about the issues faced by search professionals in developing innovative search and retrieval products and services. Search Solutions is based on last year's Industry Day (ID2006), an event which was collocated with the European Conference in Information Retrieval. Due to the success of ID 2006, this new BCS- IRSG event follows a similar format, where a number of invited speakers involved in developing search solutions for leading companies present their latest developments and share opinions and expertise. Programme Final programme is to be confirmed, but will include: * Mike Lynch, Autonomy * Thomas Hoffman, Google * Nick Craswell, Microsoft * Alistair Duke, BT Labs * Gora Sudindranath, FAST Search and Transfer * Andrew Maisey, Solcara * David Milward, Linguamatics * Nigel Hamilton, Trexy * Conrad Taylor, BCS EPSG * Paul Matthews, ODI The speakers and final programme will be announced shortly. The format of the day will be series of talks, discussions and panels. The forum will encourage interaction and discussion with our invited guest speakers. Location Search Solutions will be held at the BCS Central London Office: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8404 BCS, 1st Floor The Davidson Building 5 Southampton Street London, WC2E 7HA For further details, see http://irsg.bcs.org/sse2007.php