You are invited to this lecture of the series of lectures organized by the computer, electrical, and mechatronics engineering departments with IEEE - Jordan.
Computer, Electrical, and Mechatronics
Engineering Lecture Series
Title Web Search Engines: How They Work and How to Exploit Their Benefits
Speaker Dr. Gheith Ali Abandah
Venue Saeed Al Mufti Auditorium
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Monday, 14/12/2009, 12:30-1:45 pm
Talk Abstract
This talk is about the web search engines; the internet services that allow us to easily find information on the ever-expanding global network. This talk recalls the history of these engines and explains how they work and how they can give fast and relevant results. Moreover, this talk gives special attention to enlighten the audience about the available general and specialized search engines such as google, yahoo, bing, and several others. Through online demonstration, the speaker will show how to use and benefit from some interesting search engines. This talk is in Arabic and English.
About the Speaker
Dr. Gheith Abandah is faculty member in the Computer Engineering Department in the University of Jordan since 1998, and department chair since 2006. He holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan (1985) and a Master degree and a PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (1995 and 1998). Dr. Abandah has long experience in industry and research. He worked as a development engineer and development manager with the local industry on many projects such as computer arabization, artillery computer solutions, news processing, and information display. He also has a long experience in managing software development projects and process improvement. As graduate research assistant, Dr. Abandah worked on tuning Ford Motors’ crash simulator on parallel computers and reducing the communication cost in scalable shared-memory systems. As a research intern in Hewlett-Packard Labs, Dr. Abandah built tools for characterizing shared-memory applications to support the design of the next generation scalable shared-memory systems. His areas of research are Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing, Software Development, and Arabic Optical Character Recognition.
Lecture Series Organizers
- Computer, Electrical, and Mechatronics Engineering Departments
- IEEE – Jordan Section
