Ricardo Baeza-Yates' Personal Web Site

DTIC
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Roc Boronat 138 (Tánger building)
08018 Barcelona

Catalunya, Spain

E-Mail:

Dept. of Computer Science
Universidad de Chile
Blanco Encalada 2120
6511224 Santiago

Chile

Modern Information Retrieval (second edition) co-authored with Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, a textbook published by Addison-Wesley, 2011.
The website includes four chapters of the book, slides for teaching, a reference collection, etc. The first edition was published in 1999 as part of the ACM Press series of Addison-Wesley.
Table of contents & source code of Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures
(co-authored with G. Gonnet). For all the people that asks me about the book, it is available in this on-line bookstore.
Table of contents & source code of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures book (co-edited with W. Frakes).

Articles

Bias on the Web, CACM June 2018
CACM'95 paper: Computing in Chile: The Jaguar of the Pacific Rim?
(with D. Fuller, J. Pino and S. Goodman). This version was updated for the UNIDO newsletter.
INET'93 paper: The Chilean Internet Connection or I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
(with J. Piquer and P. Poblete).
Mining the Web (Article in Spanish published in El Profesional de la Información)
Ubiquity and Usability in the Web (Article in Spanish)
Untangling the Skein
Updated version of an article in Spanish published in Novática about searching the Web.
Algorithmics: an article in Spanish about basic algorithms including some nice simple problems.
Teaching Algorithms: article published in SIGACT News in 1995.
Al-Khorezmi: A Forgotten Mathematician
Updated version of an article in Spanish published in Ciencia al Día
Talk of incorporation to the Chilean Academy of Sciences

Opinion

Can We Stop Algorithmic Bias? (with Karma Peiró, in Spanish)
BIG, small, Right data: Which is the proper focus? (KDD Nuggets - Gold article of the week - Oct 2018)
What Went Wrong With Yahoo Labs? (Hufftington Post, May 2, 2016)
32 Years of Computing: From Student to Fellow (in Spanish, Bits Magazine, DCC, Univ. of Chile, Nov 2011)
2008: The Year that Facebook Conquered Chile (Article in Spanish published in the former Polis Digital site)
I am American!
Personal Manifest: Let's Design Everything Again: Thoughts on Computing and Its Teaching (in Spanish). Invited paper presented at CIESC'99 and published in Revista Colombiana de Computación (in Spanish). An abridged English version was published in the Swiss Magazine Upgrade and also in Spain by Novática in Spanish.
Selected articles from my column in Informática, a local Chilean magazine, from 1985 to 2004 (in Spanish).

Publications (last updated in 2005, see my Google Scholar and DBLP profiles for up to date information)

Former Spin-off

Search in all the Chilean Web!: TodoCL. Study, relations, and map of the Chilean Web.
This search engine was part of a Chilean spin-off in search technology: Barcino.

Selected Past Activities

Society and Information Technology, an event that I organized every year from 2000 to 2008 (in Spanish).
Digital Window: A personal experiment of public sensibilization of Internet videoconferencing done in 2003 between Santiago (patio of the La Moneda presidential palace) and the main square in Arica, 2000 kilometers apart, that was opened by president Lagos (in Spanish).
Subprogram VII of CYTED: Applied Electronics and Informatics. CYTED is the Iberoamerican Cooperation program in Science and Technology, where I was the international coordinator of these areas from 2001 to 2005 (all in Spanish).
CLEI Electronic Journal (where I was the first chief editor from 1998 to 2005)
Latinamerican Center for Studies in Informatics (CLEI) and Chilean CS Society (SCCC)

Pictures (old)