[LUUG Publicity] Google Tech Talk: 29 Nov at Imperial College

[Andrew Findlay]

Urs Hoelzle of Google is speaking on Monday evening at Imperial. Looks
like an interesting event, though there does appear to be a recruiting
sub-text.

Here is the announcement from Google. Note that they would like you to
contact ukengineers@google.com to register your interest:


> You are invited to a Google Tech Talk
> 
> HTML invitation: http://dev.pulsegroup.com/google/gl0262/
> 
> Calling all UNIX/Linux systems administrators and engineers. Ever 
> wondered what makes Google tick? Or how, in a few short years, Google 
> has used technology to conquer the search universe?
> 
> When: 29th November 2004
> 7pm-9pm, followed by refreshments
> 
> Where: Huxley Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building ,
> Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
> 
> RSVP: ukengineers@google.com
> 
> Urs Hoelzle, VP Of Operations & Google Fellow will give 1 exclusive 
> behind the scenes talk on one of the world's most exciting companies.
> 
> You will also have the opportunity to talk to Google about exciting 
> jobs in engineering.
> 
> 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 Urs will 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 highlight some of the behind-the-scenes pieces of infrastructure 
> that we have built in order to operate Google's services.


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