Learning Tower of Pisa

As many of you have seen, last week we launched Ask Jeeves' first European R&D Center in Pisa, Italy, for technology research. We are very excited to bring the best and brightest of Europe to our office here in Tuscany to build the world's next great search technologies. It is an excellent environment for creativity.

This week, the IT department at Pisa University held the ANAW conference for which many important people from the IT world were present, including Apostolos Gerasoulis, Ask Jeeves' EVP of Search Technology in the USA. Since this conference coincided with the opening of our European hub in Pisa, Ask Jeeves invited some conference participants to a dinner and celebration.

   

This event took place on Monday evening at a lovely traditional local hotel and about 80 people participated. We all had fantastic Tuscan food and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We think that the new research center will fuel further development of useful and innovative search products for our users.

Antonio Gulli