Industry Event* This page is in draft mode, there will be updates. Thanks. As a new addition to the standard program of previous editions of the conference, the Industry Day section (separate from the industry research track) consists of talks given by visionaries from industry and from the VC (Venture Capital) community located (mostly) in Silicon Valley. The talks are meant to give the conference audience a sense of what it takes to move an idea from its initial write-up into a trend-changing success that improves the lives of millions of people around the world. Speakers and Panelists for Industry Day are by invitation only.
List of Speakers
Andrei Z. Broder (Yahoo! Research, USA) Organizers
Marius Pasca (Google, USA) AbstractsAndrei Z. BroderAffiliation: Fellow and VP of Computational Advertising, Yahoo! Research Bio: Andrei Broder is a Fellow and Vice President for Computational Advertising in Yahoo! Research. Previously he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of the Institute for Search and Text Analysis in IBM Research. From 1999 until 2002 he was Vice President for Research and Chief Scientist at the AltaVista Company. Previously he was a senior member of the research staff at Compaq's Systems Research Center in Palo Alto. He was graduated Summa cum Laude from Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, and obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University under Don Knuth. His current research interests are centered around computational advertising, web search, context-driven information supply, and randomized algorithms. Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 (for his work on duplicate elimination of web pages) and at WWW9 (for his work on mapping the web). He has authored more than eighty papers and was awarded over twenty patents. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE fellow, and past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing. Presentation title: TBD Presentation abstract: TBD Steven Gary BlankAffiliation: Stanford University, Graduate School of Engineering and University of California Berkeley, Haas Business School Bio: Over the last 30 years, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve's last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company. Steve is on the board of CafePress.com an on-line marketplace, and IMVU a 3D IM social network. Steve also serves on the California Coastal Commission and is on the board of Audubon National and is Chairman of Audubon California and Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST.) Steve currently teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School, the joint Berkeley/Columbia Executive MBA program, and at the Stanford University Graduate School of Engineering. Steve teaches a methodology of starting and managing marketing, sales and business development in high technology startups. Course text at http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch Presentation title: The Secret History of Silicon Valley Presentation abstract: The origins of Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley has many threads; world class universities, regional climate and culture, capital markets, etc. This talk tells the story of how World War II set the stage for the growth of defense industries in Silicon Valley during the Cold War. It describes the seminal role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with the CIA and the National Security Agency during the Cold War to invent the entrepreneurial culture in the valley. |
   
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