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 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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