QuickWire: Yahoo Offers Data Access to Carnegie Mellon U. Researchers

A new five-year partnership will give researchers at Carnegie Mellon University access to Yahoo’s data services in real time, the university announced on Wednesday. The university said access to the information would help researchers create better personalized mobile-user experiences “by using machine-learning algorithms to more accurately predict user needs and intentions.” The partnership also includes a Yahoo Fellowship program that will provide financial support for computer-science students...