2007 Webmaster Brownbag Series
The Brownbags are sponsored by CITES.
Friday, February 16, 3 PM
Title: "How to improve your searchability"
Location: 2240 Digital Computing Lab (DCL)
Presenter: Lori Goodman is the search guru in the Information Sciences group at Wolfram Research, Inc. At this brownbag, she'll review volunteered websites and give specific suggestions for making web pages more friendly to search engines. She'll also give general tips.
Presentation notes: HTML
Thursday, January 25, Noon to 1 PM
Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings
Location: 126 Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 501 E. Daniels, Champaign
Presenter: Professor Amy Langville, College of Charleston, South Carolina
Presentation slides: (PageRank, PDF, 18.93MB)
Amy Langville is co-author of "Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings" (May 2006, Princeton University Press), the first book ever about the science of Web page rankings. The book serves two very different audiences: the curious science reader and the technical computational reader. This brownbag will cover topics of interest to webmasters, and answer such questions as:
- Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name?
- How do other Web pages always appear at the top? What creates these rankings? And how?
- How do search engines make money?
- How does the Great Firewall of China influence research?
Amy is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the College
of Charleston. She studies mathematical algorithms for
information retrieval and text and data mining applications.
This brownbag is also sponsored by the Materials Computation Center, UIUC and Women in Computer Science, UIUC.
Thursday, January 25, 7 PM
Algorithms behind search engines
Location: Room 2405 Siebel Center, 201 North Goodwin Avenue (Located between Goodwin Avenue and Mathews Avenue north of Stoughton)
Presenter: Professor Amy Langville, College of Charleston, South Carolina
Presentation slides: LinkAnalysis, PDF, 13.6MB)
Amy Langville is co-author of "Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings". Amy will present at the Women in Computer Science general meeting on the topic of algorithms behind search engines. This talk is suitable for someone interested in applied math and CS topics, or for someone building their own search engine.
This presentation is also sponsored by the Materials Computation Center, UIUC and Women in Computer Science, UIUC.
