Live at SIGIR 2006

I am now in Seattle Washington attending the 29th annual SIGIR conference. SIGIR is an important international conference that connects industry practitioners with academic researchers around topics in the broad field of information retrieval or search. The conference is taking place on the University of Washington campus, August 6th to 11th. I will be spending the week in collaborations and stimulating discussions about search. My goal is to detect the next big thing in search and learn about what is in the innovation pipeline of the field of information retrieval and representation.

Good news is that everyone is here; Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Ask.com, IBM Research, Amazon.com, AOL, Boeing …etc. In addition, most universities that care about IR are also well represented in this conference for obvious reasons.

Stay tuned to hear more about what I find!