Previous Meetings and Seminars

September 2007: Jonathan Arnowitz and Michael Arent, SAP Labs and Nevin Berger, Ziff Davis Media, "Managing for Effective Prototyping"
September 2007: Data Mining SIG: Neel Sundaresan, Director, eBay Research Labs, "Finding without Searching: A Long-tail Social Commerce Story"
August 2007: Data Mining SIG: Joseph M. Hellerstein, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Sara Wood, Chief Data Officer, Swivel, "Bringing Data into the Web's Fabric: The Swivel Approach"
July 2007: Ron Goldman, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, "What Everyone Should Know About Open Source"
July 2007: Data Mining SIG: Marcos M. Campos, Technology Development Manager, Data Mining Technologies Group at Oracle, "In-Database Analytics: A Disruptive Technology"
June 2007: Data Mining SIG: Avinash Kaushik, Author, Blogger, and Analytics Evangelist at Google, "Cutting Edge Web Analytics: Beyond Clickstream and Towards True Customer Centricity"
June 2007: Guha Jayachandran, Folding@Home Project, Stanford University, "Folding@Home"
May 2007: Data Mining SIG: Raghu Ramakrishnan, VP and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research, "Exploratory Mining in Cube Space"
May 2007: Rolf Skyberg, Disruptive Innovator, eBay, Inc., "Web 2.0++: Why We Got Here and What's Next"
April 2007: Data Mining SIG: Mehran Sahami, Senior Research Scientist, Google, "Using Data Mining to Measure Similarity Between Words and Objects"
April 2007: Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make and Craft magazines, "Maker Faire: The Re-emergence of Maker Culture"
March 2007: Aaron Straup Cope, Yahoo!, "The Scribblenet: APIs, Machines and Magic Words - Building the Do What I Mean Engine"
March 2007: Data Mining SIG: Chandrika Kamath, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Scientific Data Mining - Challenges at the Petascale"
February 2007: Alex Martelli, Google, "Technical Management of Software Development"
February 2007: Data Mining SIG: Sugato Basu, Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, "iLink and Web 2.0: Machine Learning on Dynamic Content-Driven Social Networks in Web 2.0"
December 2006: Data Mining SIG: Ashok N. Srivastava, Ph.D., Intelligent Data Understanding Group Lead, NASA Ames Research Center, "Recent Advances in Data Mining in the Aerospace Domain"
November 2006: Rob Myers, NetObjectives, "Extreme Programming"
November 2006: Data Mining SIG: Gary Bradski, Manager, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Intel Research, "Machine learning on multi-core"
November 2006: Professor Moshe Vardi, Rice University, and Co-Chair, ACM Task Force on Job Migratio, "Where Have All the IT Jobs Gone?" This presentation was part of the ACM Distinguished Lectureship Program in cooperation with the Stanford Computer Forum.
October 2006: Rob Myers, NetObjectives, "Test-Driven Development (TDD)"
October 2006: Data Mining SIG: Atul Butte, Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, "Methods, examples, and implications of integrative biology"
September 2006: Daniel M. Russell, Senior Research Scientist, Google "How do Google searchers behave? Improving search by divining intent"
September 2006 Data Mining SIG: Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo Research, "Monitoring Massive Streams Simultaneously: A Holistic Approach"
August 2006 Data Mining SIG: Ira Cohen, Senior Researcher, Hewlett Packard Research Labs"Machine Learning and Probabilistic Reasoning for Automated Diagnosis of Distributed Systems Performance"
July 2006 Data Mining SIG: Alex Kass, Senior Research Manager, Accenture Technology Labs "Business Environment Monitoring: A Critical Frontier For Business Intelligence"
June 2006: Andrew Tomkin, Director of Search Research at Yahoo! Research "The Changing Face of Web Search"
June 2006 Data Mining SIG: Ron Kohavi, General Manager, Experimentation Platform, Microsoft Corporation "Focus the Mining Beacon: Lessons and Challenges from the World of E-Commerce"
May 2006: Bob Colwell, author of The Pentium Chronicles "The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips"
April 2006: Joerg Beringer, SAP Labs VP of User Experience of Emerging Solutions, Palo Alto, CA USA "Composing UIs Out of Pre-built Components"
March 2006: Seth Schoen, Staff Technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation "Digital Rights Management"
February 2006: Duncan Stewart, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories "Nanotechnology and the Future of Computing"
January 2006 PDS: Gary Pollice, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Using Eclipse
January 2006: Bruce Daniels, Program Manager, Sun Grid Engineering, Sun Microsystems "Model Driven Development and Very High Level Specification Languages"
November 2005: Paul Clenahan VP of Product Management, Actuate Corporation "BIRT: The Open Source Eclipse Reporting Framework"
October 2005: Dr. J. Gerry Purdy "The Future of Mobile & Wireless"
September 2005: Dr. Emdad Khan "Voice/Audio Internet: Accessing the Internet by any phone and your voice - surf any website, search any word(s), do email, conduct e-commerce and more.."
July 2005: Jean Bovet "ANTLRWorks"
July 2005: Mike Roweh "When the Core Innovation is Simplicity"
July 2005: Mark Arman "Micro Data Format"
June 2005: Dr. Christophe Ramstein "Haptics - Giving User Interface a Sense of Touch"
May 2005 PDS: Jeff Johnson “Web Bloopers: How to Avoid Web Design Mistakes”
May 2005: John Kern "Mobility Today - Design Strategies for Cell Phone Software"Today - Design Strategies for Cell Phone Software"
April 2005: Kevin McGrath "AMD's Multi-Core x86 Processors"
March 2005: Deborah Anderson and Rick McGowan "Making Electronic Communications Available to All"
February 2005: Bob Fraley "Highlights of Computer History"
January 2005: Stephanie Ann Cota "The New Science of Online Marketing: Google + CRM Strategies"
November 2004: Ken Bielenberg "The Making of Shrek 2"
October 2004: Adrian Cockcroft "Grid Computing"
October 2004 PDS: Alan Shalloway and Jeff McKenna "Test-Driven Software Development"
September 2004: Kurt Konolige “The Centibots Project: Very Large Scale Robot Teams”
May 2004: Jeff Johnson “Web Bloopers: Avoiding Common Design Mistakes”
April 2004: Kevin McGrath “The AMD Opteron Microprocessor: A Compatible Bridge Between 32- and 64-bit Computing”
March 2004: Kurt Huang "Micropayments & Access Control"
February 2004: David Dill “The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems”
January 2004: Luke Hohmann "Secrets to Success with a Better Software Architecture"
November 2003: Joan Walton, Leslie Keely, and Ronald Mak "NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers and the Collaborative Information Portal"
October 2003: Marc Balcer "Making UML Executable"
September 2003: Michael Slater "A Next-Generation Consumer Photo Application"
September 2003 Professional Development Seminar: Alan Shalloway "Design Patterns Explained"
June 2003 Marissa Mayer "The How and Why of Google UI"
May 2003 Karon Weber "Interaction Design at Pixar Animation Studios"
April 2003 John Adams "20 Strategies for Designing Dynamic Workflow"
March 2003 Richard F Lyon "History and Future of Electronic Color Photography:Where Vision and Silicon Meet"
February 2003 Casey Chan "J2EE 1.4 and Web Services"
January 2003 Bill Day of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Look and Sound of Java: Java Media Programming"
November 2002 Peter Karlsson "Security for XML and Web Services"
October 2002 Srikanth Raju "Developing Wireless Applications using Java"
June 2002 Joshua Bloch and Neil Gafter "Programming Puzzlers"
May 2002 Alan Shalloway"The need for Agility"
May 2002 Professional Development Seminar "XML Web Services with Java"
March 2002 Jake Chen of Affymetrix "Bioinformatics: Managing Biological Data and Discoveries"
February 2002 Joshua Bloch of Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Effective Java"
January 2002 Jock D. Mackinlay of Xerox PARC: "Visualization For All"
October 2001 Doris Chen of Sun MicroSystems : "Java Server Pages(TM) and Servlets Programming"
May 2001 Cafer Tosun of SAP Markets: "Webservices and UDDI"
April 2001 Chuck Hoffman of Virtual Consulting "Mitigating Software Development Risk"
February 2001 Professional Development Seminar: "Introduction to Enterprise JavaBeans Programming and Architecture"
February 2001 Simon Wong of Oracle Corporation "Building Global Multilingual eBusiness Applications"
October 2000 David G. Stork "The HAL 9000 computer and the vision of 2001: A Space Odyssey"
September 2000 Jon Bosak "XML and the Problem of Business Semantics"
June 2000 James E. Pitkow of GroupFire "Visualizing Interaction in Web Ecologies"
May 2000 Sheng Liang "Java and Wireless Technologies"
April 5, 2000 Stephen Walther "Creating Dynamic Web Sites with Active Server Pages"
March 8, 2000 meeting canceled due to speaker's illness.
February 9, 2000 Rance DeLong and Dr. George Dinolt of Lockheed Martin "Mirages of Silver Bullets: Security on the Internet"
November 17, 1999 Dr. Paul F. Kunz of SLAC "Bringing the Web to America"
October 20, 1999 Dr. K.S.J. Pister and Dr. J.M. Kahn of UC Berkeley "Smart Dust"
September 15, 1999 ACM President Dr. Barbara Simons "The Internet: Pirates, Pedophiles, Cybersquatters, and You"
June 16, 1999 Dr. Abbas Masnavi "Enterprise IP Telephony"
April 21, 1999 Bruce Eckel "Design Patterns in C++"
March 17, 1999 Fran Finnegan of Finnegan O'Malley Company "A Practical Example of High Performance Windows NT Clusters"
February 17, 1999: The meeting was a tour of the Computer History Museum at NASA/Ames Moffet Field, given by Dr. Dag Spicer.
February 6, 1999 Professional Development Seminar presented by Dr. Abbas Masnavi An Introduction to ATM Networks
January 20, 1999 Meeting: Dan Shafer of CNET Builder.com spoke on Whither the Web?.
October 21, 1998, and November 1998 Meetings: Steve Beck of Entegrity Solutions spoke on Secure Internet Communications Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Technology.
September 16, 1998 Meeting: Dr. Meichun Hsu of HP Labs spoke on the Component Advisor - An Intelligent Web Extraction Tool.
June 10, 1998 Meeting: David Nelson-Gal of SunSoft spoke on Evolution of Performance for the Solaris JDK
May 13, 1998 Meeting: Humphrey Williams of Verifone spoke on E-commerce
April 8, 1998 Meeting: Jim Wright of Sun Microsystems spoke on IP Telephony
March 11, 1998 Meeting: Jerry Huck of Hewlett Packard spoke on Merced: the IA-64 Architecture.
February 11, 1998 Meeting: Onno Kluyt of Sun Microsystems spoke on JavaBeans Architecture. Click here to view an HTML version of the presentation.
January 14, 1998 Meeting: Dr. Anthony I. Wasserman of Software Methods & Tools spoke on Software Tools: Past, Present, and Future.
November 17, 1997 Meeting: Dr. Marc H. Brown of Ariba Technologies spoke on Interactive Cartoons of Computer Programs (On the Web and 100% Java, of Course).
October 15, 1997 Meeting: Dr. Bertrand Serlet of Apple Computer spoke on Rhapsody - Apple's Next Generation Operating System.
June 18, 1997 Meeting: Dr. Jim Gray of Microsoft Research spoke on Scaleable Servers Built From CyberBricks.
Our May 1997 Professional Development Seminar on Adaptable Object Oriented Design Patterns was presented by Dr. Marshall Cline of Perot Systems.
May 14, 1997 Meeting: Dr. Andreas Paepcke of Stanford University spoke on the Digital Library Project.
April 16, 1997 Meeting: Douglas Crockford of Electric Communities spoke on Issues in Electronic Commerce.
March 19, 1997 Meeting: Robert Horst of Tandem Labs spoke on System Area Networks.
February 19, 1997 Meeting: Ram Srinivasan of Datamind Corporation spoke on Concepts of Datamining.
January 21, 1997 Meeting: Dr. Radovan Krtolica of Canon Research America spoke on Machine Learning for Character Recognition.
November 18, 1996 Meeting: Don Gentner, Java Soft, Sun Microsystems, spoke on The Anti-Mac Interface.
October 23, 1996 Meeting: Bob Dreyer, Intel Corporation, spoke on Multimedia: MMX Technologies and the Pentium Processor
Our October 1996 Professional Development Seminar on Java Programming was presented by Dr. Cay Horstmann, author of Core Java.
September 25, 1996 Meeting: Frank Yellin, Sun Microsystems, spoke on Future Java Technologies
Our June 1996 Professional Development SeminarPERL Programming was presented by Ellie Quigley, author of Perl by Example. It was well-attended and enjoyed by all.
June 26, 1996 Meeting: Prashant Sridharan from SunSoft NEO Engineering Services spoke on Building Java Clients for Shared Servers
May 22, 1996 Meeting: John Rush, Netscape Communications Corporation spoke on Netscape - Now and the Future
April 24, 1996 Meeting: Kevin Mullet, Macromedia Product Development spoke on Space Craft: Perceptual Aids for Cognitive Activity
Mar 26, 1996 Meeting: Dr. George Dinolt, Security Software and Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Western Development Labs spoke on Internet (in)Security: A Curmudgeon's View
Feb 12, 1996 Meeting: Clive Boustred, Chief Technical Strategist at Advanced Technical Strategy, Inc spoke on Advanced Capabilities and Benefits of Distributed Object Technology
Jan 24, 1996 Meeting: Dr. Andrew E. Wade, Fonder and Vice President of Objectivity, spoke on Evolving ODBMS Standards.
Our October 1995 Professional Development Seminar on HTML and the World Wide Web

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