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December 15, 2005. Yahoo has opened a new research center in New York and has brought on board Ron Brachman, the former director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency�s Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO), as it enhances its core technology team.

The New York center is Yahoo's first on the East Coast. It already operates three in California -- in Berkeley, Burbank, and Sunnyvale. The new facility will specifically focus on computer science and social media.

Mr. Brachman will serve as vice president of worldwide research and report to Prabhakar Raghavan, who heads up Yahoo Research. He is a known expert on artificial intelligence.

Here is the rest of the story, containing Q&A with Ron Brachman.