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Rob Thomas
The Underground Economy Rob Thomas is the CEO and a Research Fellow with Team Cymru. Rob has worked as a network engineer, kernel developer, and information security professional for numerous clients. He is an ISC Fellow, a former vice-chair of FIRST, has served as a NANOG Program Committee member, has lectured at universities such as Notre Dame and Northwestern, and is on the technical advisory boards of corporations such as UltraDNS. |
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Hector Garcia-Molina & Zoltan Gyongyi
Web Spam: Current Techniques and Future Challenges Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests include distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems. Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award, is on the Technical Advisory Board of DoCoMo Labs USA, Yahoo Search & Marketplace;, is a Venture Advisor for Diamondhead Ventures, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Oracle and Kintera. Zoltan Gyongyi is a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, with a Diploma Engineer in Computer Science from the Technical University of Cluj, Romania. His research focuses on web link structure analysis and its application for web spam detection, including TrustRank. Since 2003, he has been collaborating with industry experts from AltaVista and Yahoo! Search. |
