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.
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