Web 2001 Presenters: C. Lee Giles

Professor C. Lee Giles is widely known for his studies of the World Wide Web, search engines, and intelligent information processing. His latest work has delved into game markets. Holder of the David Reese Professorship in Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), he is also a professor of computer science and engineering and associate director of research at the eBusiness Research Center.

Giles is an expert in Web analysis, search engines, and intelligent information processing. Formerly a senior research scientist with NEC Research Institute, Princeton, N.J. and now a consulting scientist there, he is well known for coauthoring recent papers published in the prestigious journals Science and Nature that showed that the Web is not only larger than most people thought, but that search engines index only a small portion of it. This work generated press coverage in over 100 news organizations world wide. He has been quoted in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Red Herring, BBC, AP, and other new services.

He also helped spearhead the development of various Web search techniques and tools, such as the metasearch engine, Inquirus (inquirus.com), which dramatically improves the effectiveness and precision of Web searches, and Researchindex (researchindex.com), an autonomous citation-indexing tool which is the world's largest resource of papers in computer science, encompassing over 250,000 publications.

Professor Giles is presenting the conference keynote address.

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