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The Gerard Salton Lecture Series

This lecture series honors our former colleague with speakers who similarly are innovators in their fields. It is brought to you with the support of Amit Singhal, PhD '97.

Gerard Salton (1927- 1995)
A towering figure in the field of information retrieval, Gerard Salton synthesized ideas from mathematics, statistics, and natural language processing to create a scientific basis for extracting semantics from word frequency. The impact of his contribution is profound - five textbooks, over 150 research papers, and dozens of Ph.D. students. The modern information science research scene, with its terabyte databases, Web, and related technologies, owes a great deal to Gerry's pioneering efforts.
When October 25, 2012
Speaker Fernando Pereira (Google)
Title Low-Pass Semantics
Host Lillian Lee
When October 18, 2012
Speaker Larry Peterson (Princeton)
Title Extending the Cloud to the Network Edge
Host Joe Halpern
When February 7, 2012
Speaker Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title Learning to Read the Web
Host Thorsten Joachims
When October 7, 2010
Speaker Monika Henzinger (University of Vienna, Austria)
Title Sponsored Search Auctions or How Web Search Engines Make Money
Host Robert Kleinberg
When November 11, 2010
Speaker Jim Larus (Microsoft Research)
Title Programming the Cloud
Host Nate Foster
When November 18, 2010
Speaker David Clark (MIT)
Title Computer Science as Social Science: The future of the Internet
Host E. Gun Sirer
When December 2, 2010
Speaker Jim Demmel (Berkeley)
Title Minimizing Communication in Linear Algebra
Host David Bindel

All lectures are presented in B17 Upson Hall, Cornell University.

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