[STC_banner-no-dates-300.jpg] The Future of Search [Norvig.gif] Peter Norvig Director of Search Quality Google Tuesday, March 8, 2005 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Needless to say, "search" has emerged as one of the Internet's killer apps. It wasn't obvious at first...as the web was growing up, few analysts and futurists saw the full power of search and its ability to capture user attention. Nowadays however, nobody is missing those implications. In this keynote presentation, Peter Norvig takes a look at the trends and future directions in search, with a closer examination of the advances in semantic technology and research which will be key to the ongoing development of better search techniques. Peter Norvig is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field. Prior to his role at Google, he was head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center, where he oversaw a staff of 200 scientists performing NASA's research and development in autonomy and robotics, automated software engineering and data analysis, neuro-engineering, collaborative systems research, and simulation-based decision-making. Dr. Norvig received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has over fifty publications in various areas of Computer Science, concentrating on Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software Engineering. Semantic Technology Conference Home Page