“Where is it ? Enterprise Search - Promises and Challenges"

Dr David Hawking - CSIRO

About the Forum

Universities, like other organisations, are beginning to realise the significant business cost of ineffective search facilities, both in external competitiveness and in internal productivity. The issues, challenges and exciting possibilities of enterprise search will be outlined and illustrated with examples drawn from the university sector. A number of promising ideas for improving the quality of search will be presented as will new methods for measuring how well they actually work.

About our Speaker

David Hawking is Science Leader for the Information Retrieval area in the CSIRO ICT Centre. He is also chief scientist of Funnelback Pty Ltd, the company spun off to commercialise CSIRO's enterprise search technology.

Dr Hawking leads a very active research program in Workplace Information Retrieval, and supervises PhD students at ANU and the University of Sydney. He is an author of over 60 scientific publications, sits on the editorial boards of Information Retrieval and Computational Intelligence and is a member of the program committees of many of the leading conferences in the areas of the Web search and information retrieval.

For more information see:

Dave's Homepage

Dave's Slide presentation

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