[UFO Chicago] Re: [Chicago] Notice of upcoming ACM Google Presentation on 1/9/2008

[Brian Sobolak]

Mark --

Sounds interesting.  Are there more details?  Where to RSVP, where is
it located, what time, etc?

brian


On Dec 27, 2007 10:35 PM, Marc Temkin <mtemkin at speakeasy.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
>     please post this info re the upcoming ACM Google Presentation on
> 1/9/2008.
>         Thanks,
>             Marc Temkin
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> For January 9th hosting at Google Chicago
>
> Title: Building Scalable Systems and Moving Large Datasets
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> Abstract:
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> In order to manage ever-increasing computation needs, Google continues to
> scale its hardware and software systems to meet the need to store more data,
> serve more requests, and at the same time improve results.
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> Using Google Code's Subversion server as a case study, this talk will cover
> Google's hardware philosophy and several core infrastructure technologies
> such as GFS, BigTable, and MapReduce. We'll also review advances in storage
> as they relate to Google's project for moving large scientific datasets.
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> Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google
>
> Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005 as the first software
> engineer hired in the Chicago office. Brian leads Google's Chicago
> engineering efforts and also serves as engineering manager for Google Code
> and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. Prior to joining
> Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control team at
> CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also worked at
> Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their professional services division,
> developing both client and web applications for Apple's largest corporate
> customers.
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> Brian has been an active open source contributor for over ten years. After
> years of writing small open source programs and bugfixes, he became a core
> Subversion developer in 2000, and then the lead developer of the cvs2svn
> utility. He was nominated as a member of the Apache Software Foundation in
> 2002 and spent two years as the ASF's VP of Public Relations. Brian has
> written numerous articles and given many presentations on a wide variety of
> subjects from version control to software development, including co-writing
> "Version Control with Subversion" as well as chapters for "Unix in a
> Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell."
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>
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> Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a major in
> Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and Ceramics.
> Despite growing up in New Orleans and working for Silicon Valley companies
> for most of his career, he decided years ago that Chicago was his home and
> stubbornly refuses to move to California.
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> Brians' Website:
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> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/bio.shtml
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