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Media Advisory: "Hurdles to eBusiness"

Release Date: Oct 09, 2007

TEPPER SCHOOL CONFERENCE EXAMINES ISSUES AT INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY

WHAT: “Hurdles to eBusiness” conference features researchers from three of the most influential companies in on-line commerce. Sponsored by Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management at the Tepper School of Business.

WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. EDT

WHERE: McConomy Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890

WHO: 9:45 a.m. – Neel Sundaresan, senior director and head of Research Labs at eBay, “Community Computing: Tackling the Finding Challenge by its Long Tail”

10:45 a.m. – Kourosh Gharachorloo, traffic quality team, Google, “Click Fraud – Anecdotes from the Frontline”

12 p.m. – Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research, “The Web Economy and Its Relevance to the Intersection of Computer Science Economics”

WHY:   eBusiness is a disruptive force in commerce but faces significant hurdles if it is to continue growing. The conference unites business leaders and technology researchers to discuss how problems might be solved.

NOTE: The conference will be webcast: mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/pushit01

PC users require the Windows Media 9 player or higher to view the webcast.  Mac users need the flip4mac Quicktime update.

CONTACT:   Scott Addison or Geof Becker
 (212) 220-4444 / (412) 268-3486
 scott.addison@gabbe.com / gbecker@andrew.cmu.edu