Search Visionaries from Endeca, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verity, and Yahoo! to be Featured on Panel at the International World Wide Web Conference
Media Advisory
CHIBA, Japan and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 10, 2005—Endeca, the leading provider of Guided Navigation®, Search and Analysis solutions, today announced that Steve Papa, Endeca’s founder and chairman, will be a featured speaker at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference this week in Chiba, Japan. Papa will be joined by search visionaries from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Verity (NASDAQ: VRTY) and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) to discuss and debate one of the hottest trends shaping the future of search and information retrieval: The integration of search and browsing. As the inventor of Guided Navigation—a next-generation approach to information discovery that integrates search and browsing into a single, seamless function—Endeca is at the forefront of this popular, emerging trend.
WHO: Steve Papa, founder and chairman, Endeca will be
joined by:
Krishna Bharat, principal scientist, Google Inc.
Susan Dumais, senior researcher, Microsoft Research
Jan Pedersen, chief scientist, Yahoo Inc.
Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president and CTO, Verity,
Inc.
Moderators: Andrei Z. Broder, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
USA;
Yoelle S. Maarek, IBM Research, Israel
WHAT: Panel: "Current Trends in the Integration of Search
and Browsing"
WHEN: Wednesday, May 11, 2:40 to 4:10 p.m.
WHERE: Hotel New Otani, Chiba, Japan
About Endeca
Endeca’s award-winning Guided Navigation, Enterprise Search, and
Analysis solutions help organizations integrate, discover, and
navigate enterprise data to solve business problems associated with
information overload. Endeca’s customers include a wide range of
enterprises, including retailers (Barnes & Noble, The Home
Depot, Wal-Mart); financial services (Bank of America, MFS
Investment Management, Putnam Investments); manufacturing and
distribution (IBM, Arrow Electronics, and John Deere); media and
publishing (World Book and IHS) and government (the Library of
Congress, NASA, and the National Cancer Institute). Endeca is a
private company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. More information:
www.endeca.com or info@endeca.com.
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