KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WWW2009 features four high-profile keynote speakers. The plenary talks take place each morning on the three days of the core conference, from Wednesday through Friday. These plenary talks take place in main Auditorium, and are intended for all WWW2009 attendees.
The plenary talk program for WWW2009 is as follows:
(Wednesday, April 22, 10:30-11:15, Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Juan Quemada
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Director, World Wide Web Consortium
“Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back” (Slides)
Chair: Dr. Arun Iyengar
Dr. Alfred Z. Spector
VP Research and Special Initiatives, Google, Inc.
“The Continuing Metamorphosis of the Web” (Slides)
(Friday, April 24, 9:00-9:45, Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Gonzalo León
Dr. Pablo Rodriguez
Internet Scientific Director, Telefonica R&D
“Web Infrastructure for the 21st Century” (Slides)
(Friday, April 24, 9:45-11:00, Auditorium)
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain
”Mining the Web 2.0 for Better Search” (Slides)
Keynote Abstracts
