Yahoo! opens research lab in Berkeley
The search engine Yahoo has just announced it’s sponsoring a research lab with the University. Heading the new lab will be Professor Marc Davis, a professor with the School of Information Systems. No word yet on what the lab will be working on yet. I took a class taught by Prof. Davis last semester, and he had a few cool demo apps involving video and pictures, tools for editing media and adding context to the pictures which could make for better search and more.
Finally, some good news out of Cal.
Comment by Bhanu Singh — July 15, 2005 @ 3:23 pm
Anyone else notice that this means the Cal-Stanfurd rivalry just got a little bigger? Google (Yahoo!’s main rival) is run by a couple of dropouts from that junior college across the bay.
Comment by Greg S. — July 15, 2005 @ 3:45 pm
You do realize that Yahoo was founded by a couple of Stanford grads, right?
… and the current CEO of Google is a Berkeley grad, right?
Comment by ? — July 15, 2005 @ 4:02 pm
And the head janitor at Yahoo is from Berkeley.
I bet none of you knew that!
Comment by Andy R. — July 15, 2005 @ 4:58 pm
You guys do bring up something interesting about the nature of the Berkeley v. Stanfurd rivalry when it comes to the Internet. Berkeley made some of the technologies that went into making the Internet, but Stanford can proudly boast about its hand in helping to produce two of the crown business of the web, which is of much higher profile. A lot of the labs are doing great work, but there is no high profile story of a Larry and Sergei coming out of Berkeley.
Comment by Allen L. — July 15, 2005 @ 5:58 pm
Yahoo vs Google / Berkeley vs. Stanford
Okay, I used up all of my really tired “search” puns in the Google in Atherton post… So I guess I just have to tell you this one straight out… The folks at Cal Stuff are smarter than your average…
Trackback by The Bay Area Is Talking — July 15, 2005 @ 6:38 pm
Allen, that’s true. Stanford has a much stronger history of entrepreneurship and management, etc. Plus all the VCs are right there on Sand Hill Road right behind campus.
Berkeley in comparison sits around, shuns private funding of all kinds, declares that money is an unequivocal evil, and waits around for state funding while crowding more kids into the school.
Comment by Anonymous — July 15, 2005 @ 7:40 pm
i’d say that’s a pretty incorrect and unfair assumption considering there are about a million factors going into the processes you just described
Comment by carbon rod — July 16, 2005 @ 3:27 pm
Yes, like the fact that Stanford sits on a lot of empty land and Berkeley is sorta…. landlocked.
Comment by ? — July 16, 2005 @ 6:36 pm
Landlocked is good. During the boom years SF had no problem making space for startups. Then again, SF and Berkeley have completely different mentalities about economic development.
Comment by H+M — July 18, 2005 @ 8:27 am