Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe and Latin America,
leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. Until 2005 he was
the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer
Science of the Engineering School  of the University of Chile; and ICREA
Professor at the Dept. of Technology of Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona,
Spain. He is co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval, published
in 1999 by Addison-Wesley, as well as co-author of the 2nd edition of the
Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures, Addison-Wesley, 1991; and
co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures,
Prentice-Hall, 1992, among more than 150 other publications. He has received
the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact
sciences (1993) and with two Brazilian colleagues obtained the COMPAQ prize
for the best CS Brazilian research article (1997). In 2003 he was the first
computer scientist to be elected to the Chilean Academy of Sciences.