Comments on: NSDI 2006, Day 1

By: Emil Sit » NSDI 2006 summaries in ;login:

Emil Sit » NSDI 2006 summaries in ;login: — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 05:12:52 +0000

[...] The official conference report for NSDI 2006 (PDF, 208K) has been published in the August 2006 issue of ;login:. These notes were taken by students in exchange for travel scholarships. In comparison to the summaries I published in May, the official report covers the session I missed on the first day while preparing for my own talk. [...]

By: Emil Sit

Emil Sit — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:52:53 +0000

I did not write down his e-mail address at Google but you could certainly try lastname@google.com. Or dial up the main directory at with the number at http://www.google.com/contact/

By: Doug Benson

Doug Benson — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:18:04 +0000

I’m attempting to find a contact address for Udi Manber at Google in order to inform him of the honor of his recently being designated by isihighlycited.com as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Computer Science. Could you provide a generic link at Google?

By: Emil Sit » Alan Davidson on Internet Regulation and Design

Emil Sit » Alan Davidson on Internet Regulation and Design — Fri, 12 May 2006 22:48:16 +0000

[...] The first part of Davidson’s talk was the standard Google spiel: much like faculty on a common research grant, it seems senior Google staffers draw from a common pool of slides. Davidson’s talk focused more on people than Udi Manber’s NSDI keynote (that I’ve already summarized), which was more technical. He included things like the number of employees (6000ish, doubling every 18 months or so), number of offices (20ish), and the number of languages supported (100ish). The push for Google now is beyond web pages: the next frontier is things like making the world’s offline information available. While Book Search is still in the 20% of their 70-20-10% rule, they are investing not-insignificant efforts in that direction. [...]