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Yahoo! Research Berkeley’s mission is to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, share, find and remix media on the web. Our work combines the fields of media technology, social software, context-aware computing, mobile computing with user and design research to help shape the future of Internet media. In support of these goals, Yahoo! Research Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley have created a collaborative environment for corporate-academic research and development.

Yahoo! Research Berkeley was founded on July 25, 2005 under the technical and creative vision and leadership of Prof. Marc Davis and Ellen Salisbury. The lab is currently directed by Ellen Salisbury with research teams led by Mor Naaman, Peter Shafton and Pamela Mead and program manager Jeannie Yang.