Greetings.

You are invited to participate in the first session of the Big
Thinkers India Series hosted by Yahoo! India Research & Development,
on January 8th, 2007 at the Taj Westend. Further details are given
below. Please keep your calendar free, so that you can attend this
cerebrally stimulating event. Do mail your confirmation to
<shwetag@...>.

RAGHU RAMAKRISHNAN
Community Systems: The World Online

The Web is witnessing a massive shift from being a static repository
of content to a community that's drive by user-generated content. With
sites such as del.icio.us, Flickr, MySpace, Slashdot, Wikipedia,
Yahoo! Answers and YouTube, the web has become a medium that connects
us to each other. What's driving this fundamental shift and what are
the new challenges in supporting and amplifying this shift?

Date: January 8th, 2007
Location: The Ballroom, Taj Westend, Bangalore
Time: 3:00 PM onwards

Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan, a world-renowned expert in Data Mining, is VP
and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research. He leads the strategy behind
Yahoo!'s social search platform.

He is a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and has
received several awards, including a Packard Foundation Fellowship, an
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and an ACM SIGMOD
Constributions Award.

Thanks,
Sumeet Mulani.