The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee
The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee is responsible for the oversight of the program, including reviewing its scope, procedures, policies and effectiveness. The Committee also reviews all nominations and decides which nominees to accept to the program.
Alexandre Renteria
ACM headquarters liaison to the committee: Cynthia Ryan
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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates areas of expertise are information retrieval, web search and data mining, data science and algorithms. He is currently a Professor at Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus, since August 2017. He is also CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company based in California since June 2016. Before that he founded and led from 2006 to 2015 the Yahoo labs in Barcelona and Santiago de Chile. His lectures include "Bias and the Web," "Big Data or Right Data? Opportunities and Challenges," "Ethics in AI: A Challenging Task," "Information Retrieval," and more.
