Spring Quarter

Friday Tech Talks April 1 @ 6pm in Gates 104

Danny Crichton – The History of Computer Science at Stanford

Greg Woloschyn (FoodBot) – Using AI to Find Free Food Events

Sam Ghods (VP of Technology at Box.net) – Scaling High Performance Distributed Systems

Happy Hacky Hour April 2 @ 7pm-midnight at Old Union 2nd Floor

Come to have fun, build things, learn stuff, and meet new people. Non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology. We’re going to hang out, hack on cool projects, and party it up.

CS Faculty Dinner April 13 @ 6 pm in Bytes Cafe

Meet and dine with CS faculty in an informal setting! (All spots are taken — sorry!)

Friday Tech Talks April 15 @ 6pm in Gates 104

Grant Mathews & Abi Raja – You know what’s cooler than a million nodes? A billion nodes. (How we won the CS161 algorithms contest)

Paul Robinett & Nick Long – Get a GLMPS (of how we cracked the video code)

David Fifield, Nmap Co-maintainer – A demonstration of the use and capabilities of Nmap, a free tool for network security scanning. An overview for beginners and current research about adapting Nmap to modern networks.

Danny Colligan – Ethical Failings in Silicon Valley

The War on WikiLeaks and Why it Matters Cancelled.

Glenn Greenwald, who was going to be speaking for this event, had to cancel for family reasons. For those interested in Wikileaks, you can still read his blog at Salon.com

Open Source Bootcamp April 23 @ 1pm in Huang Engineering Center

Stanford ACM will be bringing in engineers from Mozilla, Google, Facebook, and 10gen (creators of MongoDB) to provide you with the tools to contribute back to the open-source community.  Over 9 workshops, we’ll cover areas from scaling web applications to managing open source releases.  Register now or find out more.

Yahoo Tour April 27

Tour of the Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale. RSVP form link will be posted soon.

Friday Tech Talks April 29 @ 6pm in Gates 104

DJ Patil & Ganesh Ramanarayanan (Chief Product Officer & Co-founder of Color) — Power of Proximity

Patrick Bouffard — Quadrotor Hack: A Kinect Altitude and Obstacle Sensor

Ken Conley (Willow Garage) — Hacking the World with ROS (Robot Operating System)

LAN Party April 30 @ 7pm-2am in Ricker Dining

Hone your skills and prepare for a night of INTENSE GAMING! Beginners are welcome! Free food and caffeine! Bring your laptop and games!

Stanford Hack Competition May 7 @ 10am – 10pm in Location TBD

You have 12 hours to build something awesome. Work with a team of up to 3 people to build that side project you’ve always wanted to build, but keep putting off. Teams will be judged in 3 categories: Coolest project, Most technically challenging project, and Most useful project. Two teams will be crowned the winner! Every member of the winning teams receives a large prize (iPad 2 or Xbox Kinect)! — RESULTS HERE

Friday Tech Talks May 13 @ 6pm in Gates 104

Dave Engberg (Evernote) — Design considerations for Evernote’s public service API

George Tang (Kitchit Cofounder) — Technical successes and failures from a start-up’s early stages.

Matt Plant — FACT (Functions Are Classes Too)

Friday Tech Talks May 20 @ 6pm in Gates 104

Quinn Slack — TLS-SRP: It’s like SSL, but without the certificate oligopoly.

Joe Zadeh (Airbnb) — How Airbnb Is Putting Trust Back Into Travel // Airbnb is a community marketplace that connects people who have space to spare with those who are looking for a place to stay. We’ll present the ways that Airbnb builds trust between both sides of the marketplace and how we are leveraging past connections and experiences to create new ones.

Dolly Singh & Steve Gerding (SpaceX) — The Future of Human Spaceflight

Quora Tech Talk Monday, May 23rd @ 6pm in Gates 104

Quora has the coolest web stack ever. If you’ve used Quora, you know that everything updates in real-time. You get immediate notifications about anything that happens on topics or questions you’re following. Come hear from Quora engineers Tracy Chou and Shreyes Seshasai how it all works.