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ACM Seventeenth Conferenceon Information and Knowledge Management

CIKM 2008 Opening Address

James G ShanahanJames G. ShanahanChurch and Duncan Group Inc.

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Paris 1976Paris 1976



Over 650 Attendees


World of Wine

Japan



And if this trend continues…….

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Cabernet SauvignonG WiGrape vs. Wine


CIKM 2008 Organizing Committee

Sih AbdSihemAmer-Yahia Yi Zhang Alek Kolcz Diane Kelly

Abdur Chowdury

!THANK YOU!Greg

Grefenstette Neel Sundaresan

Mounia Lalmas

Goutham KurraYan Qu

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Ryen W. White

David A. Evans

Marius Pasca

Disco Gerdes

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Organizational SponsorsOrganizational Sponsors


Gold Level SponsorsGold Level Sponsors


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Bronze Level Sponsorsp


Video Sponsorp


Napa Valley meets Silicon Valleyp y y




W E L C O M E !W E L C O M E !


Maximizing Your Experience at CIKM 2008


Hotel LayoutHotel Layout

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LunchLunch

• Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday• No badge, no coupon, no lunch, no exception!!

• For vegetarian options please see the wait staff


Session DynamicsSession Dynamics

• Four-Papers per session– 20 min. per paper presentation

2 5 i di i / ti– 2.5 min discussion/questions

• Speakers should:• Speakers should:– Contact their session chair

• (see program “at a Glance”)(see program at a Glance )

• All sessions are synchronized


Best Poster

• 3 poster sessions: about 35 posters per daily session

Best Poster

p p p y• Posters will be displayed in Atlas Peak and Castle Peak• Time 9AM-5:00PM: Visit during all breaks

• Best Poster Award (crowd sourcing)– 5 $20 bills (fake money)

Each poster will be assigned a “tip jar”– Each poster will be assigned a tip-jar – The five posters with the most “tips” will be considered for the best

poster award – Poster committee decides the best posterPoster committee decides the best poster – Award presented during the closing ceremony (17:30)


What’s New This YearWhat s New This Year

• Game Room [Diamond Mtn]Game Room [Diamond Mtn]• Industry Day [Wednesday]• Panel discussions [Tuesday]Panel discussions [Tuesday]• Crowd-sourcing the Best-Poster• Two-tier review system• Two-tier review system• Town Hall meeting [Wednesday]

• Solicit applications to host CIKM 2011 2012• Solicit applications to host CIKM 2011,2012• Areas for improvement

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• Open mic to air opinions 31© 2008 James G. Shanahan, CIKM 2008 General Chair

Networking at CIKM 2008Networking at CIKM 2008

• Notice board by the Registration DeskNotice board by the Registration Desk• Bird-of-feather• Yoga in central courtyardYoga in central courtyard• Flickr: tag as CIKM2008

• Blog volunteers?• Blog volunteers?


Wireless TipsWireless Tips

• Wi-Fi available on the conference area– ssid: cikm08– user: cikm08

password: platform a– password: platform_a– Not unlimited bandwidth, shared

by all• See page 31 of program


Opening ReceptionOpening Reception

Sponsored by

Live Flamenco MusicToday, 6-9PM

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BanquetBanquet

H ll th• Halloween theme• Be sure to wear a costume

T t C t Sh– Target, Costume Shop...• Tuesday, 5:45-10:30

B ill t t l i th• Buses will start leaving the Marriott at 5:30 PM and will run continously until 6:30run continously until 6:30

• There is a wonderful museum at Copia

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at Copia


Closing ReceptionClosing Reception

Sponsored by CIKM 2008Sponsored by CIKM 2008


Hotel ConciergeHotel Concierge

They will help you find events that suit youThey will help you find events that suit you

Culinary School Wine Tasting Dining Hot SpringsSpas Outlet Malls Hiking Biking Golf

T i H Ai B ll i W S ( ili k b di )

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Tennis Hot Air Ballooning Water Sports (sailing, wake‐boarding)


Please Put Your

BlackberryBlackberry

Cell Phone

Computer

In Silent Mode

Thank You!!!Thank You!!!


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Industry Day (Wednesday)(Wednesday)

The Mountains or The Street Lamp: Search, Research, and Research AgainChristopher J. C. Burges (Microsoft Research, USA)Crowdsourcing for Relevance EvaluationDaniel E. Rose (A9.com, USA)Hadoop: Industrial-Strength Open Source for Data-Intensive SupercomputingHadoop: Industrial Strength Open Source for Data Intensive SupercomputingDoug Cutting ( Yahoo!, USA)Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development ToolPeter Norvig (Google, USA)Th E l i C t ti l Ad ti i L dThe Evolving Computational Advertising LandscapeAndrei Z. Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA)Toward Next Generation Search: Business, Product, Science, Infrastructure, and TalentTalentWilliam I. Chang (Baidu.com, China)Practical Guide to Controlled Experiments on the Web: Listen to Your Customers….Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft, USA)The Secret Histor of Silicon Valle

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The Secret History of Silicon ValleySteven Gary Blank (Stanford University and University of California Berkeley)


Thursday WorkshopsThursday Workshops

ONISW 2008 Second International Workshop on Ontologies and Information Systems for the Semantic Web

P IR 2008 P t t I f ti R t i lPaIR 2008 Patent Information Retrieval

PIKM 2008 PhD Workshop

SSM 2008 Search in Social Media

WICOW 2008 Second Workshop on Information Credibility on theWICOW 2008 Second Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web

WDM 2008 Tenth International Workshop on Web Information and

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Thursday WorkshopsThursday Workshops

BooksOnLine 2008 Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in LargeBooksOnLine 2008 Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories

DOLAP 2008 ACM Eleventh International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP

DTMBIO 2008 ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics

GIR 2008 Fifth Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval

INEWS 2008 Improving Non English Web Searching

LSDS-IR 2008 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for

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LSDS-IR 2008 Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval


CIKM 2009 (Bejing)CIKM 2009 (Bejing)

General Chairs:Il‐Yeol Song, Drexel Univ. USAWei Li, Beihang Univ., China hBeijing, China

Oct. 27-31, 2009DB Chair: Xiaohua Hu, Drexel Univ. USAIR Chair: Jimmy Lin, Univ. of Maryland, USAKM Chair:W l Ch UCLA USAKM Chair:Wesley Chu, UCLA, USA


Getting Around NapaGetting Around Napa

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