[vox] Linux Users' Group of Davis, Sept. 16: 'Building a new web-scale search engine'

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The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:

  Monday
  September 16, 2013
  7:00pm - 9:00pm

Presentation:
  "Building a new web-scale search engine"
  with Greg Lindahl, CTO and founder of blekko

  Everyone knows that it's impossible to build a new search engine from
  scratch, and they're pretty much correct.  Come and hear how blekko
  ( http://www.blekko.com/ ) did it -- a sordid tale involving a lot of
  VC money, open source, perl, and a digression into how difficult it is
  to produce good results for programming queries.

  After a detour through privacy and open data, our guest speaker will
  finish by mercilessly questioning the audience about their search
  engine habits.

About the Speaker:

  Greg is a supercomputing guy, and has been using Linux since 1995.
  In 1999 he was the technical lead on the first US federal supercomputing
  procurement to be won by a Linux cluster.  In 2002 he was a founder at
  PathScale, and was the architect of an InfiniBand networking endpoint
  that Intel is about to bake into their high-end Xeon CPUs.
  In 2007, he became CTO and founder at blekko.


This meeting will be held at:

  Davis Public Library
  Blanchard meeting room
  315 East 14th Street
  Davis, California 95616


For more details on this meeting, visit:

  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/

or simply:

  http://www.lugod.org/ (and follow the links)


For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:

  http://www.lugod.org/meeting/library/


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About LUGOD:
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  The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
  dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
  and Free Software.

  Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
  in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
  Sacramento region.  Events are always free and open to the public.

  You can find LUGOD on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
  and on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879

  Please visit our website for more details:  http://www.lugod.org/


-- 
Bill Kendrick
pr at lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/

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