Topic: The Future of Spam Filtering
Speaker: Paul Graham, Independent Software Developer
Date and Time: Thursday, December 11, 2003, 7:00 pm to 9:00 PM.
Location: MIT Building NE43, 8th floor playroom
Sponsors: The Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM
The IEEE Communications Society
The IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology
The meeting is free and open to the public.
Spammers are working hard to get past filters, but so far the filters
are winning. Is this because Bayesian filters are unbeatable, or
because not all users have them yet? As good filters become more
widespread, how will spam evolve, and what will filters have to do to
keep up?
Paul Graham is the designer of the Arc programming language. He
inadvertently became a spam filter hacker when the filter he wrote to
test Arc turned out to work. He most recently worked for Yahoo, and
before that was president of Viaweb (now Yahoo Store). He has a PhD
in Computer Science from Harvard, and has written two books on Lisp.
There is an article on "Saving Private E-mail" that discusses Paul's
work and puts it in the context of other industry developments in the
August issue of IEEE Spectrum, pp.40-44. More information can also
be found on Paul's website at <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>.
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