What can you do with 6 billion webpages?
Together with Common Crawl and SARA, we invite students and researchers studying at or employed by research institutes or universities in the Netherlands to dive into the Common Crawl web corpus using the SARA Hadoop service. The best submission will receive the The Norvig Web Data Science Award, a tablet, and 1500 Euro to spend on travel, accommodation, and conference registration fee for SIGIR 2013 to be held in Dublin, Ireland.
The award is named after Peter Norvig, Google's director of research with a resume too impressive to summarize. Peter is on the advisory board of Common Crawl, and is chair of the jury for this award. Other jury members are Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo!), Hilary Mason (bit.ly), Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland), and Evert Lammerts (SARA).
Find out more at the Norvig Award page at Github, the Common Crawl Blog, or come to the Inter-Actief Challenges Information Lunch on 22 November at 12.30h. in Absint.