[Asis-l] Come out of the cold! PVC ASIST Program: Search Engines, Februa ry 6th, 6:30pm

[McNeely, Nichole L]

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Come out of the cold!  Warm up your brain cells with a good program!

                THE ARCHITECTURE OF SEARCH ENGINES 

Date:      Thursday, February 6, 2003, 6:30pm 
Location:  University of Maryland, McKeldin Library, Room 6107 (6th 
floor) 
Fees:      $10 for student members, $18 Members, and $20 Non-members 

Registration Deadline:  February 4, 2003. 

Register here: http://www.asis.org/Chapters/asispvc/feb__6__2003.html 
               
Yes--it's cold!  A cold snap has covered the East Coast!  But that doesn't
mean you have to be an icicle--warm up your brain with another great program
from PVC ASIST.  There are still two weeks to register and the weather to
warm up.  Since it's too cold to venture out, you're using your search
engine even more than usual--learn how it works!  Come to our great
program...

If you look under the hood of a BRS, a Google, a Converra or an Oracle 
Intermedia engine, will you find the same parts? Which components come 
with the standard search engines? What flexibility do you have to 
customize the parts, or to add new ones? Where do neural networks, topic 
maps, thesauri, and translations fit into the engine? What kind of query 
processing and matching algorithms fuel the search engine? 

We will look at a logical component model of a search engine. We will 
reverse engineer some of our favorite search engines to gain a better 
understanding of how they work today and to see how search engines will 
improve in the future. 

Speaker:  Dr. Denise Bedford, Thesaurus Project Manager, Information 
Solutions Group, World Bank, Washington DC 
Associate Faculty Member, Catholic University of America School of 
Library and Information Science, Washington DC 

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Networking and Dinner: Deli sandwiches and salads 
(including vegetarian). 
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. Program 

DEADLINE:  Feb 4th, 2002 

Map:  http://www.lib.umd.edu/PUB/campus_map.html 

Directions by car:  http://www.uga.umd.edu/visit/direct.html 

Directions by Metro:  http://www.uga.umd.edu/visit/train.html 

Parking:  Lot 1, which is west of McKeldin. The other is Regents Drive 
Parking Garage (#2).  Both will be free at that time of day. If you 
enter campus from Rt. 1 (Baltimore Avenue), you proceed on Campus Drive 
and follow the signs for turning right on Regents Drive and proceeding 
to the Parking Garage. If you continue west on campus drive, you will 
eventually run into lot 1.  

Join us! 

Nichole McNeely 
PVC Chair Elect 
Day:  703-695-2258 
mailto:mcneely.nichole at hq.navy.mil