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lital.mashiach-at-gmail.com

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I'm currently working on Bing -  the new Search Engine of Microsoft that effectively competes with Google. My current project is Dynamic Crawler. The basic idea of dynamic crawling is to use internet explorer instances to crawl URLs and render them so that dynamic content can be obtained
I received M.Sc. from Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
I received B.Sc (Summa Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering from Electrical Engineering Department, Technion.

• Web search and its applications

• Algorithms

• Social networks

• Spring 2008 - Lecturer in charge of OOP course in Haifa University. My lectures can be find here.

• Winter 2004-05 to Winter 2007-08 - teaching assistant in charge of Introduction to Systems Programming course.

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• Local Approximation of PageRank and Reverse PageRank
  Li-Tal Mashiach and Ziv Bar-Yossef.

  CIKM 2008: ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Napa Valley, California, October 2008

• Local Approximation of PageRank and Reverse PageRank
  Li-Tal Mashiach and Ziv Bar-Yossef.

  SIGIR 2008 (poster): The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference. Singapore, July 2008

• Local Approximation of PageRank and Reverse PageRank
  Li-Tal Mashiach and Ziv Bar-Yossef.
  CCIT Report #690 (EE No. 1647), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel, March 2008.

• Local Approximation of PageRank and Reverse PageRank, Msc Thesis, Winter 2008, a short summary in Hebrew, and a presentation.

Notes/Lecture

• Scaling Personalized Web Search - paper presentation, Search Engine Technology course (236620), Winter 2007, Lecturer: Dr. Ronny Lempel.

• Learning to Rank: A Machine Learning Approach to Static Ranking - paper project and a presentation, Algorithms for Large Data Sets course (049011), Spring 2006, Lecturer: Dr. Ziv Bar-Yossef.

• Interprocedural Analysis and Optimization - presentation, Seminar on Optimizations for Modern Architectures (236802), Winter 2005/6, Lecturer: Dr. Erez Petrank.

• Implementation of a CAUSAL ordering protocol layer in JavaGroups Group Communication toolkit that supports both unicast and multicast messages - project summary, Distributed Systems course (236351), Winter 2002/3, Lecturer: Dr. Roy Friedman. Joint work with Gabi Kliot.

• Atomic commitment protocols in distributed transactional system - paper project, Distributed Algorithms course, Winter 2002/3, Lecturer: Prof. Hagit Attiya. Joint work with Gabi Kliot. A short presentation on Distributed Transactions & Atomic-Commit.

• Formal verification of a memory management unit - spring 2003. Corporate project with Cisco Systems. Summary. Joint work with Carmit Tamir. In this project we performed formal verification of a real live Cisco design.

• Network game for PDA based on BlueTooth protocol - summer 2002. Presentation and Poster. Joint work with Ran Ruder. In this project we built a multiplayer action game for pocket pc. The game was based on BlueTooth network.

WiPeer- file sharing, chatting and games over WiFi -
        If you have a laptop, or a home/office network, you may wish to try.