学校事情(20) イベント - Cisco: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
John Chambers (president and CEO of Cisco Systems)が講義を行うらしいので帰り道にでもよってみよう.
- 日時
- Thursday, 2/9, 17:30 - 19:00
- 場所
- Hewlett 200 (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/registrar/tcseq/)
- URL
- http://forum.stanford.edu/events/calendar/abstract.php?eventId=1464
Talk Abstract
Twenty years ago, a small networking company was born on the Stanford University campus. Twenty years later, Cisco Systems, Inc. is now the largest communications equipment supplier in the world. President and CEO, John Chambers, looks forward to engaging the new generation of talented students from Stanford. Chambers will explain the inspiration and path the original engineers took to lay the foundation of the Internet through the creation of the world’s first router. He will then talk about how the technology has matured, and finally, how Cisco will help take the networking technology to the next level. Come and be inspired by one of the industry’s greatest leaders and speakers.”
Reception following the talk will be held at the Packard Building Atrium.
他に,「Search at Microsoft」と題して, Christopher Payne氏が講演をされる. 「サーチ」という言葉に魅かれてしまうのだが、同じ時間帯にうちの研究所の大ボスが講演(セミナー)を行うのでそちらに行かなくてはならないのが残念. これはSCPD(http://scpd.stanford.edu/)を利用して後で観よう.
- 4:15PM, Wednesday, February 1, 2006
- HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
About the talk:
The Search industry is growing at a very rapid rate. The industry is expected to generate hundreds of billions of queries a year from hundreds of millions of users, with a revenue potential of more than $10 billion a year by 2008.
Even at this very fast growth rate, the industry is in its infancy and is faced with technological challenges. It is commonly accepted that a good proportion of users' questions go unanswered on most search engines today, and searches often take a long time to finally produce an answer. Though the majority of the freely available information on the internet is indexed by search engines, the bulk of trusted information contained in books, magazines, databases, TV programs and other media sources are not a common part of the index. The relevancy of search results also has a long way to go. Natural language processing is yet to make a major impact in this area; human beings don't pose questions to others using less than two words, but that is the average length of a search query.
The issues outlined above are just a sample of the major challenges that are yet to be overcome in the Search industry. Christopher Payne, Corporate Vice President of MSN Search for Microsoft Corporation, will talk about the Search industry, the challenges it faces and Microsoft's approach to solving some of those challenges.
