Yet another Conference (YaС) (“another conference”, pronounced “yak”) is an annual technology conference held by the Russian company Yandex since 2010 . Among the topics discussed [1] :
- computer security ;
- programming
- mathematics in computer science;
- problems of storage and data processing systems;
- medical technology
- smart urban environment
- and other topics.
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Passes in the fall. Participation is free, upon prior registration [2] . In general, YaС is aimed at advanced students who have knowledge in the field of computer science and mathematics above average; performances are held in Russian and English [3] .
The name of the meetings is an allusion to the decoding of the word “ I am an index ” - y et an other in dex er (“another indexer”) [4] .
Content
YaS-2010
It was held on October 1, 2010 at the World Trade Center . The event was announced on the day of the programmer (early September) [4] . The conference was attended by speakers from Yandex, Google , ABBYY , Intel , Oracle , Skype , Spirit, SUP , Yahoo! " [5] .
Subjects of reports:
- load testing;
- data storage systems;
- multimedia data processing;
- statistics and ratings (using LiveJournal.com as an example);
- web mining .
YAC 2011
It was held on September 19, 2011 in 3 rooms and many sections. Along with the conference, a technological exhibition was held [3] .
Together with Yandex employees, the event was attended by employees of Google , Facebook , Opera Software , Kaspersky Lab , Cloudera , Nigma , Shturmann, Cloud9 IDE.
Among the significant events:
- Description by Yandex. Search Engine of the Spectrum technology;
- news about the opening of the API by the Russian search engine Nigma [6] ;
- a story about the Nigma-Mathematics service;
- report on the Yandex monitoring system “Juggler”;
- description of the Yandex services administration system [3] .
The conference was also attended by researchers from the University of Tel Aviv (Lior Wolf's report on the face recognition system) and ISP RAS .
YaC-2012
Held on October 1, 2012 at the 75th pavilion of the International Exhibition Center (VVC / VDNH) in Moscow [7] .
Representatives of Yandex , Parallels , Opera Software , Microsoft Research , Nimbula, Cloud9 IDE, Google , Cisco Systems , Cogniance, Adobe spoke at the event [8] .
Main topics:
- cloud technologies;
- Internet math
- system administration;
- application development for the Android OS [9] .
The key event was the performance of Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh and the announcement of the release of Yandex Browser, a browser of its own design [10] .
A representative of " Opera Software " also spoke - spoke about the technology " Opera Turbo ", which will be used in the Yandex browser [10] .
The opening of its own application store " Yandex.Store " [10] has been announced.
Among other reports:
- a story about the CRIU system;
- A story about new developments by Parallels and Microsoft Research .
YaC-2013
The conference, which was held on October 2, 2013 , was attended by more than 50 speakers from Yandex and other IT companies, as well as leading scientists [11] . Representatives of the following large companies spoke: Facebook , Twitter , Opera Software , Etsy, Cumulus Networks, GitHub , Cloudflare , Open Compute, Badoo , MapBox, Temboo ”,“ Mellanox ”,“ Mozilla Corporation ”and others [12] . At the event, Yandex immediately spoke about several innovative solutions. One of them is the Atom platform, which allows website owners to personalize the appearance of web pages for each specific user according to data received from a search engine [13] . Also announced were: speech recognition technology Yandex.SpichKit [13] , cloud technology Cocaine. Thorough reports were made about Yandex's development - Tomita-Parser (a technology that allows you to “squeeze” facts from the text), the Elliptics repository; there was also an interesting story about the analysis of implicit user preferences and the use of its results to improve the formation of document snippets in search results [14] .
YaC-2014
The event took place on October 30, 2014 in the congress park of the Radisson Royal Moscow Hotel [15] . Instead of the usual division into sections, this time the conference was divided into 6 “routes” [16] :
- "Route" of user interface development;
- "Route" of the program and administrative part;
- "Route" of security;
- “Route” of administration;
- "Route" of mobile developers and
- "Route" of researchers.
The key part was the presentation of the company's new products:
- Dictation applications for typing and editing text with voice;
- Yandex.Browser beta versions for Linux OS .
Also described about the new features of the Yandex.Metrica system [17] .
YaС / m
Yet another Conference on Marketing , or YaС / m , a conference on digital marketing, analytics and working with data in electronic commerce.
YaС / m-2013
Held on May 16, 2013 in Moscow. At the event, a new Yandex search platform, the Islands , was presented. Among other topics discussed:
- big data in advertising;
- adaptive interfaces;
- ranking of goods;
- data structuring in online stores;
- real time optimization;
- other.
Representatives of the following companies were present - FutureLabs, Wikimart , Lamoda, Video International , Receptive and others [18] .
YaС / m-2014
Held on June 5, 2014 . The conference was preceded by Yandex's traditional secret report - this time about the new features of Yandex.Market , whose users can now buy goods directly without going to the online store website and receive goods by the Multhipip courier service [19] . The presentation of Yandex.Books by Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich [20] took place . The conference was attended by the company “500 Startups”, “ Ozon.ru ”, “VisualDNA Russia” and others.
YaС / m-2015
Held on June 4, 2015 [21] . As part of the main report, a new Yandex.Radio service was introduced - a recommendation music service [21] . Speakers were representatives of Beeline , Data Insight, Calltouch, Repka.UA, Bookmate, Flocktory, K50 [21] . Among the topics discussed are big data and data science [21] .
YaС / m-2016
Held on June 29, 2016. Among the main topics are algorithmic solutions in communications, automated and personalized means of delivery of advertising messages and analytical tools to evaluate their work. [22] . The key report is the presentation of the new Yandex.Audience service, aimed primarily at marketers. In addition, the company demonstrated the level of performance of its neural networks by presenting a collection of poems written in imitation of Yegor Letov [23] . The result was a whole album called "Neural Defense", the writing of music for which and the songwriters themselves engaged Yandex [23] .
YaC-2017
Passed May 30, 2017. To the traditional topic of digital technology and marketing, a theme has been added - Technology of medicine. At the beginning of the conference, music was written by the Yandex neural network.
Among the significant events:
- Introduced Yandex.Zen platform;
- Launch of the Yandex.Health service;
- Opening access to the Yandex.Weather API [24] [25] .
YaC-2018
The conference was held on May 29, 2018 at the VTB Ice Palace sports complex and was dedicated, including to a smart urban environment.
Among the significant events:
- Presentation of Yandex.Stations with built-in voice assistant Alice ;
- Launching the Yandex.Dialogs platform;
- Launch of a single subscription to all services - Yandex.Plus;
- Announcement of premium cars in car sharing Yandex.Drive .
During the conference, a test drive of an unmanned taxi was conducted at the venue in front of the sports complex [26] [27] .
YaS-2019
The conference was held on May 23, 2019 at the Megasport Arena and was dedicated, including to the smart home.
Among the significant events:
- The Yandex.Module media player has been introduced, allowing you to view Yandex.Video and launch Yandex.Air on a large screen [28] ;
- Presented video channel My broadcast [29] ;
- Introducing the starter kit for smart home devices;
- Introducing Alice’s new smart home management capabilities [30] ;
- Launching a network of “ cloud restaurants ” [31] ;
- Family subscription Yandex.Plus [32] ;
- The appearance on the roads of 100 unmanned vehicles in 2019 was announced;
- Announcement of the appearance in the fall of 2019 of a new version of Yandex.Avto integrated with car systems.
Arkady Volozh arrived at the conference on a drone. Yuri Bashmet and the New Russia Orchestra performed a symphony written by Kuzma Bodrov and the Yandex neural network .
Notes
- ↑ Yet another Conference
- ↑ Yandex invites to Yet another Conference 2011
- ↑ 1 2 3 YAC 2011 collected a full house
- ↑ 1 2 Yandex holds Yet another Conference
- ↑ Yet another Conference 2010
- ↑ 2011 YaC Summary
- ↑ How to get there (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 8, 2013. Archived May 11, 2013.
- ↑ Yet another Conference 2012
- ↑ Yet Another Conference 2012 - CNews
- ↑ 1 2 3 YAC 2012: what Yandex told programmers this year
- ↑ Yet another Conference 2013
- ↑ - Yandex. Events - Yandex events
- ↑ 1 2 Yandex recognizes speech on iOS and Android
- ↑ Yet Another Conference 2013: User Behavior Survey
- ↑ How to get Archived on November 3, 2014.
- ↑ Program Archived on November 3, 2014.
- ↑ Yac-2014: how it was
- ↑ Yet another Conference on Marketing
- ↑ Yandex.Market takes on a lot
- ↑ Yandex.Book
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Yet another Conference on Marketing 2015
- ↑ Yet another Conference on Marketing 2016, June 29, 2016, Moscow - Yandex Events . events.yandex.ru. Date of treatment May 10, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 News from the Yac / m 2016 conference, a new Facebook feed and the art of hammering
- ↑ Yet another Conference 2017 . events.yandex.ru. Circulation date May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Yandex Conference Yet another Conference: report from social networks . Rusbase. Circulation date May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Yet another Conference 2018 . events.yandex.ru. Circulation date May 23, 2019.
- ↑ YaC 2018: where ecommerce is moving . Seonews. Circulation date May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Yandex introduced the media player Yandex. Module"
- ↑ Yandex launched its television
- ↑ Yandex taught Alice to manage a smart home
- ↑ Yandex launched “cloud restaurants”
- ↑ What was shown at the Yandex conference
See also
- Google I / O