The Seventh Search Engine Conference

April 15-16, 2002, Hotel Nikko, San Francisco

To access the presentations at this meeting, click on the symbol within the relevant programme entry.

Clare Hart (Factiva, NJ)
The Future of Search Engines

Jim Bair (Strategy Partners International, CA)
What Content and Knowledge Management Require of Search Engines

Amanda Spink (Penn State University, PA)
A Human Information Behavior Approach to the Future of Search

Avi Rappoport (SearchTools.com, CA)
Can P2P Search Engines Work in the Real World?

Jay Ven Eman (Access Innovations, NM)
Tame the Terabyte Terror - Taxonomy Tools Explained

Susan Feldman (IDC, MA)
Find What I Mean, Not What I Say

John McKechnie (Construction Informatics Research Centre, UK)
Computer Assisted Processing of Large Unstructured Document Sets

Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley, CA)
Using Dynamic Metadata to Improve Search User Interfaces

Laurent Proulx, (Nstein Technologies, Quebec, Canada)
To SEEK and not to FIND. What is your Question?

David Evans (Clairvoyance, PA)
Technical Dimensions of "Responsibility"

David A. Evans, Clairvoyance (Chairman)
Daniel Lulich (RuleSpace, OR)
Roopangi Kadakia (FirstGov, DC)

Panel : Policy and Responsibility: The Role of Content Filtering in the Dynamic World of Web Pages and Email

Stephen Arnold (AIT, KY)
Mereology and its Associated Tools: New Advantages in the Search Arena

Chahab Nastar (LTU Technologies, France)
Making Sense of Visual Content

Andrew Littlefield (Inktomi, CA)
Effective Enterprise Information Retrieval across New Content Formats

Matt Cutts, (Google, CA)
Search Engine Snapshot

Donna Harman (NIST, MD)
The TREC Question-Answering Track

Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University, NY)
Why Settle for a List When You Want an Answer?

David Hawking (CSIRO, Australia)
Intranet Search: What Works and What Doesn't

Horst Baumgarten (Roche Diagnostics, Germany)
Empowering a Corporate Intranet with a Broad Range of Search Applications

Robert Ainsbury (EoExchange, CA)
How to extract 'Universal Search' out of Intranet Solutions

Neil Margolis (Wyeth-Ayerst Research, PA)
Search for a Search Engine: Selecting and Implementing Corporate Search