Yahoo! Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, Chosen as 2006 Fellow by Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Yahoo Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO), had announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, is been selected as a 2006 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Fayyad was recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of machine learning and data mining and for his significant scientific and commercial applications in the field of knowledge discovery in databases. Fayyad is also responsible for Yahoo’s overall data strategy, with overseeing the Yahoo! Research Organization.
“Yahoo! Research is now focusing on hiring all the big researchers around the globe in the fields of search, machine learning, microeconomics, social media, and more,” said Fayyad.
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