[Pdx-pm] Fwd: talks on Linux, Google

[John Labovitz]

Not specifically Perl-related, but I thought others here might be 
interested in these two talks.  Unfortunately, I will be out of town.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: John Sechrest <sechrest at peak.org>
> Date: October 21, 2004 9:38:43 PM PDT
> To: lug at peak.org, sao-corvallis at peak.org
> Subject: [sao] Monday, Monday.... Important info
>
>
> This monday Oct 25th, there are two things going on that
> are very interesting.
>
>
> First we have
>
> http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/graduate/colloquium/
>
> the OSU ECE colloquium featuring:
>
>     * Greg Kroah-Hartman
>     * Linux Kernel maintainer
>     * IBM
>     * Portland, OR
>
>     * Monday
>     * October 25
>     * 4:00 - 4:50 PM
>     * Covell 216
>
>
> Secondly, we have:
> http://groups.engr.oregonstate.edu/acm/index.php/Main/GoogleSpeaker
>
> Google: A Computer Scientist's Playground
>
>     * Orkut Buyukkokten, Software Engineer
>     * 6:30pm - 8:00pm
>     * Monday, October 25, 2004
>     * Owen 102
>
>  Search is one of the most important applications used on the
>  internet, but it also poses some of the most interesting challenges
>  in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires
>  understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines,
>  from lower-level systems issues like computer architecture and
>  distributed systems to applied areas like information retrieval,
>  machine learning, data mining, and user interface design. In this
>  talk I'll describe some of the challenges in these areas, discuss
>  some of the interesting applications related to search that Google
>  has developed over the past few years, and I'll highlight some of the
>  behind-the-scenes pieces of infrastructure that we've built in order
>  to operate Google's services. Along the way, I'll share some
>  interesting observations derived from Google's web data.
>
>
> ------
>
>        I think that both of these are worth attending. I hope
>        that the short notice does not prevent anyone for attending.
>
>
>
>
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