[Chicago] Notice of upcoming ACM Google Presentation on 1/9/2008

[Eric Sinclair]

Looks like the ACM Chicago event listing hasn't been updated with  
contact details, but the event is listed in the sidebar, and the  
December coordinator was Greg Neumarke (greg at neumarke.net), the chair  
of the local chapter.

	http://oldwww.acm.org/chapters/chicago/  <- great URL redirection  
result

-Eric

On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:12 PM, Brian Sobolak wrote:

> Mark --
>
> Sounds interesting.  Are there more details?  Where to RSVP, where is
> it located, what time, etc?
>
> brian
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 10:35 PM, Marc Temkin <mtemkin at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>   please post this info re the upcoming ACM Google Presentation on
>> 1/9/2008.
>>       Thanks,
>>           Marc Temkin
>>
>>
>>
>> For January 9th hosting at Google Chicago
>>
>> Title: Building Scalable Systems and Moving Large Datasets
>>
>> Abstract:
>>
>>
>>
>> In order to manage ever-increasing computation needs, Google  
>> continues to
>> scale its hardware and software systems to meet the need to store  
>> more data,
>> serve more requests, and at the same time improve results.
>>
>>
>>
>> Using Google Code's Subversion server as a case study, this talk  
>> will cover
>> Google's hardware philosophy and several core infrastructure  
>> technologies
>> such as GFS, BigTable, and MapReduce. We'll also review advances in  
>> storage
>> as they relate to Google's project for moving large scientific  
>> datasets.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google
>>
>> Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005 as the first  
>> software
>> engineer hired in the Chicago office. Brian leads Google's Chicago
>> engineering efforts and also serves as engineering manager for  
>> Google Code
>> and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. Prior to  
>> joining
>> Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control  
>> team at
>> CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also  
>> worked at
>> Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their professional services  
>> division,
>> developing both client and web applications for Apple's largest  
>> corporate
>> customers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian has been an active open source contributor for over ten  
>> years. After
>> years of writing small open source programs and bugfixes, he became  
>> a core
>> Subversion developer in 2000, and then the lead developer of the  
>> cvs2svn
>> utility. He was nominated as a member of the Apache Software  
>> Foundation in
>> 2002 and spent two years as the ASF's VP of Public Relations. Brian  
>> has
>> written numerous articles and given many presentations on a wide  
>> variety of
>> subjects from version control to software development, including co- 
>> writing
>> "Version Control with Subversion" as well as chapters for "Unix in a
>> Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell."
>>
>>
>>
>> Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a  
>> major in
>> Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and  
>> Ceramics.
>> Despite growing up in New Orleans and working for Silicon Valley  
>> companies
>> for most of his career, he decided years ago that Chicago was his  
>> home and
>> stubbornly refuses to move to California.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brians' Website:
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/bio.shtml
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