Seeking Search Engine Enthusiast

The Star Challenge 2008 @ Fusionopolis is on. The objective of this
technology competition, organized by A*STAR, is to encourage
participation from international teams to develop new, interesting and
practical search techniques in the field of search engine technology.

Registration for this world-class competition began in January 2008
and is open to top software engineers, leading researchers and search
media enthusiasts from around the world.

We would like to invite you and your chosen teammates to be an
official team and to take part. You could be part of the winning team
and walk away with US$100,000 in cash!

This competition consists of 2 main challenges - voice and video
search challenges. The former consists of three subtasks; where an
example would be to retrieve all segments that contain the query IPA
sequence regardless of its spoken languages. The latter also consists
of three subtasks; where an example would be to retrieve all visually
similar segments from a query provided in the form of a single image.

To learn more about this race, go to www.thestarchallenge.sg.

Remember, the registration closing date is 29 February, so please sign
up soon!