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Fayyad Joins Three Other ACM Fellows and Two ACM Distinguished Scientists at Yahoo!; Yahoo! Research Continues Scientific and Technical Excellence in 2006

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Dr. Usama Fayyad, has been chosen as a 2006 Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Fayyad was recognized for his extensive contributions to the fields of machine learning and data mining and for his significant scientific and commercial applications in the field of knowledge discovery in databases. As Yahoo!'s chief data officer and senior vice president of research & strategic data solutions, Fayyad is responsible for Yahoo!'s overall data strategy, as well as overseeing the Yahoo! Research organization.

Fayyad is recognized as one of the founders of the field of data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. He was founding editor-in-chief of the primary scientific technical journal in the field for 10 years and was founding editor-in-chief of the ACM Newsletter: SIGKDD Explorations from 1997 to 2002. He has published over 100 technical articles in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Databases. He has also chaired several major international conferences in these fields. His record spans basic technical scientific contributions to building products in major systems such as Microsoft SQL Server and other database platforms. Fayyad founded two successful high-tech startups prior to joining Yahoo!'s senior executive team.

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