Google Talk at UPenn, 3 PM Tuesday

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

I mentioned this at dinner tonight, and thought I might as well post
it to the list on the off chance anyone can make it tomorrow.

There's no need to register or sign in for this talk; just show up.
Also, while I can't guarantee anything, these afternoon talks often
have some sort of free food afterwards.

Levine Hall, by the way, is Penn's shiny new Computer Science
building.  It's somewhat hidden between 33rd St., 34th St., Walnut
St., and Locust Walk.  The building on the SE corner of 34th and
Walnut, Bennett Hall, is currently being renovated and is surrounded
by a fence.  If you can manage to make your way to the back of Bennett
Hall, you'll see a funky glass building that looks sort of like a Piet
Mondrian painting.  That's Levine Hall.

Walt

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From: jackie@central.cis.upenn.edu (Jackie Caliman)
Newsgroups: upenn.cis.general,upenn.seas.dp,upenn.cse.undergrads
Subject: Google Talk
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:46:32 +0000 (UTC)


Fall 2004 CIS Colloquia Series
Dept. of Computer & Information Science is honored to present ...

Craig Nevill-Manning,
New York Engineering Director, Google

Lecture: Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Where:   Wu & Chen Auditorium, Rm 101 Levine Hall
Time:    3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
__________________________________________
Title: Finding needles in a 20 TB haystack,  200 million times per day.

Google faces two large technical challenges: ensuring that our search
results are as relevant as possible, and serving hundreds of millions
of queries in a fraction of a second at a reasonable cost. To solve the
first problem, we perform an offline matrix computation to produce
PageRank, a query independent measure of page reputation, and combine
it with more traditional query-specific scoring. To solve the distributed
computing problem, we use tens of thousands of commodity PCs and highly
fault-tolerant software. I will discuss some details of these solutions,
and also share some interesting statistical tidbits about search and the
web.

For more information about Graig please visit his web site:
http://craig.nevill-manning.com/




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