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April 15, 2010
Posted by Feross

ACM Tech Talks

This is the archive of past ACM tech talks. For this quarter’s talks, go home.

What are ACM Tech Talks?

Since 2009, the Stanford ACM has been organizing informal “tech hangouts” for CS students to share what they’re working with the larger community. The idea behind the event is simple – smart people sharing their cool CS hacks, research, and tech demos with the Stanford CS community.

We invite 3 people to speak at each event. Tech talks typically last 10-30 minutes each. The idea is to give us a short, quick preview into something cool that you’re working on, like a TED talk. We have a projector, large whiteboard, and wireless network access for your use.

Dinner is always served (usually Chipotle burritos or Dominos pizza).

Every other Friday @ 6 PM in Gates 104

Want to give a tech talk?

Great! If you want to speak at a future ACM meeting, just tell any ACM officer or send us an email and we’ll add you to the agenda!

Stanford students are always working on awesome side projects, research, and startup companies. However, most CS students don’t have a community where they can meet other CS students, get new ideas, and find out about the awesome stuff their peers are working on. This event will bring together a CS community that learns and shares together.

Past ACM speakers

February 18, 2011

Soleio (Facebook designer) – How To Fail At Design

Matthew Conover (Symantec Research Labs) – Paradigm Shifts in Virtualization Security: Hypervisor Protection against Malware

Tristan Harris (Apture CEO & Co-Founder) – How do we inspire curiosity?

February 4, 2011

Alan Brightman & Victor Tsaran (Yahoo) – Accessibile Technology for Everyone

Abi Raja – Node.JS : The wonderful world of Javascript servers

Lucas Garron – Uses of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha

January 21, 2011

Truc Nguyen & Julie Fortuna – Creativity and Crowdsourced Design

Chris Piech – Online Computer Science Education

January 7, 2011

Keith Schwarz (Stanford CS106L instructor) – Demystifying Smoothsort

Sumi Jonnalagadda (GoalCat) – Micropayments and PayPal Adapative API

Sam King (Director of Hackathon) – Programming in Cambodia

November 12, 2010

Danny Colligan – Why Engineers Should Care About Politics

Jeffrey Schang (senior software engineer at LinkedIn) – Career Explorer

Kapil Yedidi – DNA Transcription Factor Alignment

October 29, 2010

George Tang & Jason Wei (creators of Truth or Dare) – Winning Juicy Ideas

Feross Aboukhadijeh (creator of YouTube Instant) – Going Viral on the Web

Alexandria Hicks-Nelson – Mad Photoshop skillz

May 21, 2010

Ali Yahya – Applying Sequence Alignment Algorithms to Data Compression

Lucas Garron – CSS 3 Trickery and the Back to the Future Logo

Startup House – Emacs, Org-mode, and Lifestyle Automation/Delegation

May 7, 2010

Gustav Rydstedt – JavaScript Framebusting in the Wild

John Hiesey – A Whirlwind Tour of Microcontroller Programming

Startup House – Clojure and Higher-Order Perl

Pictures

April 30, 2010

Richard Stallman (free software advocate) – A Free Digital Society

Pictures

April 23, 2010

Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor) – Basics of Game Theory

Keith Schwarz – Extending C++: The CS106 foreach Macro

Riddhi Mittal – Parallelism, GPU Internals, and CUDA

Pictures

March 5, 2010

Jake Becker – Stanford’s DMCA and Copyright Policy

David Gobaud (ASSU president) – Utilizing Technology for Social Good

Bill Rowan – Fun Oddities of C’s Notorious Syntax

February 12, 2010

Benjamin Berkovitz – Design choices in the back-end of CourseRank

Zynga (event sponsor) – Tech and Opportunities at Zynga

Sam Schreiber – General Game Playing and TurboTurtle

January 29, 2010

Keith Schwarz (CS106L instructor) – C++ Template Metaprogramming

National Security Agency (event sponsor) – NSA Technology

Feross Aboukhadijeh – Web Security at Stanford

July 28, 2009

David Dill (Stanford professor) – Life Experiences as a Researcher in CS

August 18, 2009

Scott Klemmer (Stanford professor) – Design as Enlightened Trial & Error

August 10, 2009

Marc Levoy (Stanford professor) – Computational Photography

July 28, 2009

Mehran Sahami (Stanford professor) – A Web-based Kernel Function for Measuring the Similarity of Short Text Snippets

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