Listen "Susan Dumais: The history of search and its impact"
Episode Synopsis
This keynote presentation was part of the 2023 ADM+S Web Search Revolution Symposium on 17 August at RMIT University, and online.
What did web search replace? What are the origins of web search and how it has evolved in the last 2-3 decades? A look at the history and impact of search and a look forward to where we are going – including neural methods which have been used in web search for a while and chat. The talk will focus more on people and their interactions with search systems, helping them articulate their needs and making sense of results and less about the technical details of the systems themselves.
Speaker:
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal
What did web search replace? What are the origins of web search and how it has evolved in the last 2-3 decades? A look at the history and impact of search and a look forward to where we are going – including neural methods which have been used in web search for a while and chat. The talk will focus more on people and their interactions with search systems, helping them articulate their needs and making sense of results and less about the technical details of the systems themselves.
Speaker:
Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow & Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, New York City and Montreal
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