Rakesh Agrawal, who is credited with creating data mining, or the science of extracting trends from large and often disparate databases, has left IBM to become a Microsoft technical fellow in the company's Search Labs.
Rakesh Agrawal Large tech companies for years have tried to woo each other's top scientists, and in the search and computer science field, Google has lately been getting most of them. Google pulled away Microsoft's Kai-Fu Lee to run its China labs, which led to a lawsuit. Google also snagged search expert Udi Manber from Amazon.com. (Vint Cerf and his ceremonial hat of many colors joined Google as well.)
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