Ricardo Baeza-Yates' Home Page

Barcelona Media Innovation Centre (FBM-UPF)
Diagonal 177, 9th floor
08018 Barcelona

Catalunya, Spain

E-Mail:
Tel.: +34 93 1838900
Fax: +34 93 1838901

Dept. of Computer Science
Universidad de Chile
Blanco Encalada 2120
6511224 Santiago

Chile

Tel.: +56 2 978 4632
Fax: +56 2 689 5531

Modern Information Retrieval
A textbook published by Addison-Wesley (ACM Press series) in 1999, co-authored with Berthier Ribeiro-Neto. Compare Internet prices here.
This book includes some chapters by leading researchers in the field. The Web site contains two chapters, a reference collection, and many other resources. One of the best prices can be obtained at Bookpool.
Table of contents & source code of Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures
(co-authored with G. Gonnet). For all the people that asks me about the book, it is available in this on-line bookstore.
Table of contents & source code of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures book (co-edited with W. Frakes).

Articles

CACM'95 paper: Computing in Chile: The Jaguar of the Pacific Rim?
(with D. Fuller, J. Pino and S. Goodman). This version was updated for the UNIDO newsletter.
INET'93 paper: The Chilean Internet Connection or I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
(with J. Piquer and P. Poblete).
Mining the Web (Article in Spanish published in El Profesional de la Información)
Ubiquity and Usability in the Web (Article in Spanish)
Untangling the Skein
Updated version of an article in Spanish published in Novática about searching the Web.
Algorithmics: an article in Spanish about basic algorithms including some nice simple problems.
Teaching Algorithms: article published in SIGACT News in 1995.
Al-Khorezmi: A Forgotten Mathematician
Updated version of an article in Spanish published in Ciencia al Día

Opinion

2008: The Year that Facebook Conquered Chile (Article in Spanish published in Polis Digital, nice PDF version)
Talk of incorporation to the Chilean Sciences Academy
I am American!
Personal Manifest: Let's Design Everything Again: Thoughts on Computing and Its Teaching (in Spanish). Invited paper presented at CIESC'99 and published in Revista Colombiana de Computación (in Spanish). An abridged English version was published in the Swiss Magazine Upgrade and also in Spain by Novática in Spanish.
Selected articles from my column in Informática, a local Chilean magazine, from 1985 to 2004 (in Spanish).

Source Code

Source code of Xaa: Animation of String Searching Algorithms
(co-authored with L. Fuentes). This software is a bit old, so the code may need some changes for newer versions of X-Windows.
Binary source and examples of Vcc: Visual debugging and animation of C Programs
for Sparc workstations under Solaris and X-Windows. This software is a bit old, so the code may need some changes for newer versions of X-Windows
(co-authored with G. Quezada and G. Valmadre).

Spin-off

Search in all the Chilean Web!: TodoCL. Study, relations, and map of the Chilean Web. This search engine is part of a Chilean spin-off in search technology: Barcino.

Activities

Society and Information Technology, a meeting that I organize every year since 2000 (in Spanish).
Digital Window: A personal experiment of public sensibilization of Internet videoconferencing done in 2003 between Santiago (patio of the La Moneda presidential palace) and the main square in Arica, 2000 kilometers apart, that was opened by president Lagos (in Spanish).
Subprogram VII of CYTED: Applied Electronics and Informatics. CYTED is the Iberoamerican Cooperation program in Science and Technology, where I was the international coordinator of these areas from 2001 to 2005 (all in Spanish).
CLEI Electronic Journal (where I was the first the main editor from 1998 to 2005)
Latinamerican Center for Studies in Informatics (CLEI) and Chilean CS Society (SCCC)
Chilean node of the European Molecular Biology Network currently under construction and site for a vegetal genome project where I coordinated the bioinformatics lab until 2005.