CIKM 2008 coverage and best interdisciplinary paper award

Greg has some of the best reporting including:

• Coverage of Bruce Croft's keynote
  Unsolved Problems in Search (and how we might approach them)
  
  
• Data is good, code is a liability, coverage of Peter Norvig's industry day talk:
  Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool

Matthew Hurst has rough notes from Andrew Tomkin's keynote.

Xing Yi returned and told us that the best interdisciplinary award went to:
Structural Relevance: A Common Basis for the Evaluation of Structured Document Retrieval by Sadek Ali, Mariano Consens, Gabriella Kazai, Mounia Lalmas.

Other highlights from Xing include:

• MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information Retrieval
• Beyond the Session Timeout: Automatic Hierarchical Segmentation of Search Topics in Query Logs

Both of these look really interesting to me, I'll try to write something up on them this weekend.

Does anyone know who won the best poster award? The website hasn't been updated and we have a few people at the lab who would be interested.

I am also looking forward to the video lectures being available online.