The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
September 16, 2013
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
"Building a new web-scale search engine"
with Greg Lindahl, CTO and founder of blekko
Everyone knows that it's impossible to build a new search engine from
scratch, and they're pretty much correct. Come and hear how blekko
( http://www.blekko.com/ ) did it -- a sordid tale involving a lot of
VC money, open source, perl, and a digression into how difficult it is
to produce good results for programming queries.
After a detour through privacy and open data, our guest speaker will
finish by mercilessly questioning the audience about their search
engine habits.
About the Speaker:
Greg is a supercomputing guy, and has been using Linux since 1995.
In 1999 he was the technical lead on the first US federal supercomputing
procurement to be won by a Linux cluster. In 2002 he was a founder at
PathScale, and was the architect of an InfiniBand networking endpoint
that Intel is about to bake into their high-end Xeon CPUs.
In 2007, he became CTO and founder at blekko.
This meeting will be held at:
Davis Public Library
Blanchard meeting room
315 East 14th Street
Davis, California 95616