News

• Best Paper: Fernando Diaz. "Aggregation of News Content Into Web Results".
• Best Student Paper: Eytan Adar, Jaime Teevan, Susan Dumais and Jonathan Elsas. "The Web Changes Everything: Understanding the Dynamics of Web Content".
• Best Late Breaking Result: Irem Arikan, Srikanta Bedathur, Klaus Berberich. "Time Will Tell: Leveraging Temporal Expressions in IR".

• Download the full WSDM'09 program and information about Barcelona in our PDF brochure.
• Join our WSDM'09 Facebook group!

• A new hotel has been made available at a special rate for WSDM 2009.
• Accepted papers for the Late-Breaking Results Track have been published.

• The 2009 Google WSDM Conference Grant for female computer scientists is now available! This grant is meant to support female researchers to attend WSDM 2009. Deadline December 22nd (more information).

• Student grants are available! Deadline December 15th (more information).
• The preliminary program is now online.

• The registration site is now open, early registration ends January 7, 2009.

• The camera ready submission site is open, the deadline is November 20, 2008.

• Ravi Kumar from Yahoo! Research, will be the speaker at the joint plenary session of WSDM and WAW.

• The Late Breaking Results Track submission has been extended to November 17, 11:59 pm UTC-10 (Hawaii)

• The submission site for the Late Breaking Results Track is open.

• The list of accepted papers at WSDM 2009 has been published.

• The WSDM 2009 organization has made available a total of 160 rooms at special block room rates.

• Jeff Dean from Google, is our second keynote speaker. His talk will be on the challenges to build large scale systems for Web retrieval and data mining.

• The Call for Papers for New Late Breaking-Results (Deadline: November 3rd, 2008) has been published (view CfP PDF).
  
  
• Gerhard Weikum from MPI, Germany, is our first keynote speaker. His talk is tentatively entitled "Harvesting, Searching, and Ranking Knowledge from the Web".