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Orkut Buyukkokten
Home: 2250 Latham Street Apt.57
Mountain View CA 94040
Phone: (650) 988 0339
Office: Room 430 Gates Building
Stanford University
Phone: (650) 723 6805
e-mail: orkut@stanford.edu
WWW: http://www.stanford.edu/~orkut/

EDUCATION

  • 1997-
    Stanford University, CA
    Ph.D., Computer Science
  • 1993-1997
    Bilkent University, Ankara
    B.S., Computer Engineering and Information Science
    Full scholarship awarded by the University
    Academic Standing: High Honour
    Favorite Courses Included:
    Database, Computer Graphics, Networks, Economics, Organizational Behaviour
  • 1986-1993
    Konya Meram Anadolu Lisesi, Konya High School Diploma

    WORK EXPERIENCE

  • June 1996
    Halici Information Processing Co., Ankara
    Software Development Department
    Involved in implementing software concerned with pattern recognition for finger print analysis and matching
  • July 1995
    Microsoft, Istanbul
    Research and Development Department
    Implemented application software for Product Support Service

    PUBLICATIONS

    Conference Publications
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke
    "Seeing the Whole in Parts: Text Summarization for Web Browsing on Handheld Devices". The 10th International WWW Conference (WWW10). Hong Kong, China - May 1-5, 2001. [HTML], [Word], [PDF].
  • Oliver Kaljuvee, Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke
    "Efficient Web Form Entry on PDAs". The 10th International WWW Conference (WWW10). Hong Kong, China - May 1-5, 2001. [HTML], [Word], [PDF].
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke.
    "Accordion Summarization for End-Game Browsing on PDAs and Cellular Phones" Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2001 (CHI 2001). Seattle, Washington - 31 March-5 April, 2001. [PDF], [PS], [Word].
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke.
    "Focused Web Searching with PDAs". The 9th International WWW Conference (WWW9). Amsterdam, Netherlands - May 15-19, 2000 [HTML], [PS], [PDF].
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd.
    "Power Browser: Efficient Web Browsing for PDAs" Human-Computer Interaction Conference 2000 (CHI 2000). The Hague, The Netherlands - April 1-6, 2000. [PDF], [PS], [Word].
  • Arturo Crespo, Orkut Buyukkokten , Hector Garcia-Molina.
    "Efficient Query Subscription Processing in a Multicast Environment".
    16th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). San Diego, CA, USA, February 29 - March 3, 2000. [Extended Abstract: PS].

    Journal Papers
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Oliver Kaljuvee, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke and Terry Winograd
    "Efficient Web Browsing on Handheld Devices using Page and Form Summarization,
    ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), to appear. [PDF], [PS], [Word].
  • Dominic Hughes, Orkut Buyukkokten and James Warren
    "Empirical Bi-action Tables: a Tool for the Evaluation and Optimization of Text Input Systems, Application I: Stylus Keyboards"
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Special Issue on Mobile Text Entry, to appear. [PDF], [PS], [Word].
  • Arturo Crespo, Orkut Buyukkokten and Hector Garcia-Molina
    "Query Merging: Improving Query Subscription Processing in a Multicast Environment."
    Accepted for publications in the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). [PDF], [PS]


    Workshop Publications
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Hector Garcia-Molina and Andreas Paepcke
    "Text Summarization of Web pages on Handheld Devices." Proceedings of Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001 held in conjunction with NAACL 2001 (NAACL 2001), June 2001. [PDF], [PS], [Word].
  • Orkut Buyukkokten, Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina and Luis Gravano
    "Exploiting geographical location information of web pages" Proceedings of Workshop on Web Databases (WebDB'99) held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD'99, June 1999. [Postscript].


    SKILLS AND ABILITIES

  • Computer
    Programming Languages: Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Lisp, Prolog, Visual Basic, Visual C++, SQL, Palm Programming
    Operating Systems: UNIX, DOS, Windows, PalmOS
    Applications MS Word, Publisher, Powerpoint, Access, Excel, dBase, B2 Logic

  • Languages
    Advanced English, Intermediate German, Basic French

    OTHER INFORMATION

    Social Activites
  • Member of Bilkent Annual Commitee 1995-1997
  • Elected as president of the Bilkent Computer Society in 1996
  • Elected as president of the Bilkent Computer Club in 1994-1996
  • Elected as a student representative for the Faculty of Engineering during 1995-1996
  • Represented Turkey in the Global Youth Conference in Ankara, 1992
  • Member of Bilkent Ballroom Dance Club, BilSAT (Bilkent Under Water Association) Club
  • Open Water Diving with PADI and CMAS certificate
  • Tennis, Golf, Rock-climbing, Fencing, Volleyball, Sailing

    Teaching
  • Participated in a computer literacy program organized by Bilkent University for teaching DOS, word processing, database and spreadsheet applications to high school students in 1995-1996
  • Given DOS, Windows, Word, UNIX, Internet, HTML courses to students in Bilkent University during 1994-1997

    Awards
  • Ranked 1st in class at Bilkent University
  • Awarded the Rector's Service Award, 1995
  • Ranked 25th in the University Entrance Examination
  • Ranked 1st in class at High School

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