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Yahoo researchers honoured

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Three scientists at Yahoo! Research have been honoured with fellowships by prestigious professional associations.

Andrei Broder, fellow and vice president for computational advertising and search technology at Yahoo! Research, has been made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for hiscontributions to algorithms and web technology.

Ron Brachman, vice president of worldwide research operations at Yahoo! Research, has been made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his leadership in knowledge representation and reasoning in computer science and artificial intelligence.

Raghu Ramakrishnan, chief scientist for Yahoo!'s audience group and Yahoo! research fellow, has been made an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the fields of deductive databases, data mining and query optimization.

"We are honored to have so many of our talented researchers recognized by top scientific organizations and the academic community at large for their technical and scientific contributions to both academic and product and systems accomplishments," said Usama Fayyad, executive vice president and chief data officer for Yahoo!

"At Yahoo!, critical research into the sciences that underpin the Internet are helping us to create increasingly indispensable experiences for our users and to advance the positive impact of the Internet around the world."

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