Re: Fwd: [svlug] ACCU meeting tonight (Google's MapReduce private lecture)

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 Sure.  Its really just an informal meeting of security professionals. 

http://rationalsecurity.typepad.com/blog/beansec/index.html

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, [hidden email] wrote: 

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> Can you please point to more info on Beansec? 
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> Thanks! 
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> John Malloy 
> johnmalloy AT comcast DOT net 
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> From: gboyce <[hidden email]> 
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>> And you miss the MIT Flea, Beansec, BLU meetings and Mary Chungs. 
>> 
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> 
>>> See what you guys are missing by being in Massachusetts :-P 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
>>> From: Walter Vannini 
>>> Date: Oct 10, 2007 11:34 AM 
>>> Subject: [svlug] ACCU meeting tonight 
>>> To: SVLUG 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> IMPORTANT: Please note below the different location and the need to 
>>> give yourself some extra time to arrive. 
>>> 
>>> Feel free to forward this notice to anyone who is interested. 
>>> 
>>> When: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 
>>> Topic: MapReduce: Parallel Processing for Huge Data 
>>> Speaker: Matt Austern 
>>> Time: 7:00pm 
>>> Where: Google 
>>> Building 42 (Paramaribo on the 2nd floor) 
>>> 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy 
>>> Mountain View, CA 94043 
>>> Map: 
>>> Directions: 
>>> Cost: Free 
>>> More Info: 
>>> 
>>> IMPORTANT - Please note that this is a new location. 
>>> Please give yourself extra time to get to the meeting. 
>>> Google will be holding the Zeitgeist event and parking 
>>> will be difficult to find. We recommend arriving at 
>>> least a half hour earlier than you normally would. 
>>> Also, you will have to check in at the building 42 
>>> lobby, sign the visitor NDA, and be escorted by 
>>> security to the Paramaribo meeting room. 
>>> 
>>> MapReduce is one of Google's main tools for large-scale 
>>> distributed data processing. MapReduce users write map and 
>>> reduce functions, while the framework handles such issues 
>>> as data partitioning, work scheduling, inter-machine 
>>> communication, and fault tolerance. 
>>> 
>>> The MapReduce computational model is a simple 
>>> generalization of well known patterns from functional 
>>> programming, but in practice it has turned out that many 
>>> real world computations can be expressed in this form. 
>>> 
>>> Matt Austern is the author of "Generic Programming and the 
>>> STL". He's the former chair of the C++ standardization 
>>> committee's library working group, and is a moderator of 
>>> comp.std.c++. Before working at Google, Matt was at Apple and 
>>> before that at SGI. Matt received his PhD in physics from 
>>> Berkeley in 1994, and participated in the discovery of the top 
>>> quark. 
>>> 
>>> Upcoming ACCU talks 
>>> 
>>> Wednesday, November 14, 2007 
>>> Jeff Johnson 
>>> "GUI Bloopers: Avoiding Common UI Design Mistakes" 
>>> 
>>> Wednesday, December 12, 2007 
>>> Ulrich Drepper 
>>> "CPU Memory and Caches" 
>>> 
>>> The ACCU meets monthly. To suggest topics and speakers 
>>> please email Walter Vannini via [hidden email] 
>>> 
>>> Walter Vannini 
>>> 
>>> 
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