PhD: Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft Academic Search is a free service developed by Microsoft Research to help students and researchers quickly and easily find academic content, researchers, institutions, and activities. Academic Search indexes millions of academic papers from publishers, repositories, and the web, and surfaces key relationships between and among subjects, content, and authors in a manner that highlights the critical links that help define scientific research. This talk will cover the confluence of machine learning, entity extraction, and information retrieval research from our various Microsoft Academic Search indexes and integrates repository content, authors, and institutional level information; and the underlying composite data may be utilized by repositories and other applications via an application programming interface (API)

Speaker Details

Alex Wade is Director for Scholarly Communication at Microsoft Research, where he oversees a portfolio of researcher-focused products and services to explore emerging trends in the ways that research is disseminated, archived, and re-used. Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley, and a Masters of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington. During his career at Microsoft, Alex has managed the corporate search and taxonomy management services; and served as Senior Program Manager for Windows Search. Prior to joining Microsoft, Alex was Systems Librarian at the University of Washington, and held technical library positions at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.

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Alex Wade
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Microsoft Research
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