Tao Yang is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Ask.com for web search. He is a tenured full professor in Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. Yang co-ran research and development of Teoma search engine with Apostolos Gerasoulis from its earlier startup stage in 2000 and at Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) for Teoma web search after it acquired Teoma in 2001. Teoma has been the backend search engine for Ask.com since December 2001, … Wikipedia
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Tao Yang received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, China, in 1984, the M.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence from Zhejiang University in 1987. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers Universit www.cs.ucsb.edu/~tyang
