Food, Fun and Engineering: A Look at Google Behind The Scenes Friday, April 13, 2007
Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC) Horvitz Lecture Hall, Room 1115 3:30PM (Pizza at 3:15) SPEAKERS: Jay Crim and Kevin Rabsatt ABSTRACT: The Google File System (GFS) is a large scale distributed filesystem used for internal Google data and as a building block for other Google storage services. This presentation is a brief, high-level overview of GFS, and GFS related testing. Included is a brief discussion of GFS architecture, features, and testing. For the testing portion, a 10,000 foot view of the testing that goes into GFS is provided. The main goal of this presentation is to provide insight into the complexity of Google infrastructure, and a few strategies that are used by Software Engineers in Test at Google. For further details, please see the public GFS architecture paper: http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html . Mingle afterwards with Googlers. GOOGLE: On our website you will also find a complete list of job opportunities, resume writing details, and more information about Google, our work, and our culture - www.google.com/jobs/students. If you would like to request an interview, you will need to include your resume and unofficial copies of your transcripts. We look forward to seeing you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Computer Science Richard Stallman Cambridge, MA Wednesday, April 18 Talk - CSIC Building, Room 1115 - 4:00 p.m. Reception at 3:30 p.m. CSIC Lobby Title: Free Software in Ethics and in Practice Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. Bio: Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Department of Computer Science > > > Friday, April 20, 2007 > > Talk - CSIC Building - Room 1115 - 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m > > > Title: "Google Scholar: The Adventure Continues" > > Abstract: > Google Scholar is a fresh look at the traditional problems of > discovering and accessing scholarly literature. It is currently being > used by researchers all over the world. I will describe the general > principles that underly its design and will share some operational > experiences. I will also present lessons learnt - both from building and > running such a service and from seeing how people use it. > > > Bio: > Anurag Acharya earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and > engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, > in 1987, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon > University, in 1994. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the > University of Maryland at College Park from 1995 to 1997, before he > became an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at > the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position he held until > he joined Google. At Google, he has worked on several things, most > recently Google Scholar and Google News Archive Search. > ~ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM LAN PARTY & GAME TOURNAMENT April 21, 2007 at Noon in CSIC Consoles including Playstation and Wii LAN set up for Halo, Counterstrike, whatever you want to play Scrabble and Apples to Apples for luddites and traditionalists Free pizza, Bawls, and cool prizes! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DemoCamp DC 2 - Call for presenters DemoCamp is an informal event for sharing stuff you're working on and getting feedback. Time slots are just 10-15mins long, so no elaborate presentation is needed; slides are even discouraged (demo, don't just talk). Presenters should just give a brief introduction, demo, and follow up with some form of discussion. Ask for feedback, talk about problems, and/or ask questions. The demoed project can be a piece of software, some quick scripts, a web application, a hardware "hack", or just a toy. Anyone is welcome to show up. If you'd like a slot to present, please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] DemoCamp will be on Thurssday, April 25th in CSIC 1115 from 6:30-8pm. Sponsored by the UMD ACM Student Chapter http://barcamp.org/DemoCampDC2 http://www.cs.umd.edu/~acm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The DC chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, in collaboration with the student ACM chapter at George Washington University, proudly presents the first 2007 lecture: Speaker: Dr. Brian Kernighan Dr. Kernighan worked alongside UNIX creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed significantly to the UNIX school of thought. He is also co-author of the AWK and AMPL programming languages as well as co-author of the book "The C Programming Language". Topic: The UNIX Legacy Since its creation in an attic at Bell Labs more than 30 years ago, the Unix operating system has spread far beyond anything that its creators could possibly have imagined. It has led to the development of much innovative software, and has influenced myriad programmers, usually for the better, while affecting other operating systems lamentably little. In this talk, Dr. Kernighan will describe some of the early days and the golden age, and then in the light of more recent times discuss what the Unix legacy might turn out to be. When: Monday April 30, 2007. 7:00pm to 9:00pm Where: George Washington University Campus Funger Hall, lecture room 108 2201 G St. NW Washington, DC (2 blocks from Foggy Bottom Metro) This lecture is free and open to the public. ACM membership is not required to attend. Questions and comments can be directed to William Fielder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). 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The team is currently comprised of three co-founders who have successfully raised seed capital and have additional funding in place for the technology buildout once the technical team is identified. The first co-founder is an attorney with an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from New York University. Prior to co-founding the startup, he worked in real estate acquisitions at a leading fully-integrated public REIT. The second co-founder graduated from the Wharton School with a concentration in Finance and most recently worked for a private equity firm in New York City, where he focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing growth equity investments in media companies, with a particular focus on new media. The third co-founder graduated in the top of his class from both the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the UCLA School of Law. Prior to co-founding the startup, he worked in business development at Yahoo!, focusing primarily on local search. The ideal candidate for this opportunity will be available immediately to join the three co-founders and help build this extremely exciting, unique, attractive business from the ground up. The team currently has considerable business and legal experience, extensive contacts and networks that will enable rapid execution of the business plan, and significant sources of capital at our disposal. We are looking to bring in a technical partner who can translate our business vision into a leading-edge Web-based solution. The first task of the CTO will be to help identify a small technology team initially comprised of 1-2 Web developers, a database developer and a design architect. The candidate should then be prepared to take a very hands-on approach to overseeing the development of the beta site. Ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment with an aggressive schedule is mandatory. Experience: Brilliant, innovative, visionary, highly ambitious, technical undergraduate or graduate student who seeks to join an exciting entrepreneurial opportunity and make a direct impact on its creation, development and implementation Exceptional academic record with significant professional experience Experience with startups and building complex Web technologies and databases from scratch Knowledge and experience with the latest technologies and processes is essential, including Web 2.0, Flash, Apollo, Java, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, SQL, PHP, RSS, etc. Knowledge and experience with all components of eCommerce, social networking and virtual world platforms is highly desirable Ability to attract and lead the best and the brightest developers, both locally and offshore Desire to roll up the sleeves and code with the team, building the vision from the ground up If qualified, please send your resume and a brief summary of your background to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Subject: CTO Search).
