Cloud Computing at Stanford

Call For Participation!
*** Cloud Computing--- the New Face of Computing---Promise and Challenges ***
Date: July 19 (Saturday)
Place: Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University
Organizers:
~Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society: (http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/computer/)
~Stanford Student Chapter of the IEEE
~North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association (NATEA): (http://www.natea.org/sv/conferences/nfic/2008/nfic_2008.php)

Registration: http://www.natea.org/sv/conferences/nfic/2008/nfic_2008_reg.php

$65 Non-IEEE Member;
$60 IEEE Member;
$30 Students or Unemployed

*** The list of Talks ***
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research - Keynote

Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland at College Park
"Scalable Text Processing with MapReduce"

Jim Rivera, Salesforce.com
"Platform as a Service: Changing the Economics of Innovation"

Joydeep Sen Sarma and Ashish Thusoo, Facebook
"Hive: Datawarehousing and Analytics on Hadoop"

Hairong Kuang, Yahoo
"Take an internal look at Hadoop"

Mano Marks, Google
Kevin Beyer, IBM Almaden Research
"Jaql: Querying JSON data on Hadoop"

Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley
"DryadLINQ -- a language for data-parallel computation on computer clusters"

Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
"Cloud Architectures -- New way to design architectures by building it in the cloud"