Title: What Lies Beneath: Harnessing the Deep Web
Date: Thursday February 25, 2010 4:00pm-5:00pm
Speaker: Dr. Anand Rajaraman
Description:
Type the word "Kauai" into your favorite search engine, and odds are you'll get more than seven million results--a jumble of blue links to the Hawaiian tourism bureau, luxury hotels on Poipu beach and tour operators on the Napali coast. Think those results are the sum total of all the Web's content on Kauai? Not even close.
Each year “Girl Day” allows thousands of women engineers, with support from their male counterparts and employers, to directly mentor more than one million girls and young women in K-12 with firsthand experiences in engineering.
Read about this year's events.
Maybe you have a daughter or sister who would like to participate next year!
Today workers are removing photos of emeriti and former deans from the walls of the Terman building so that they can be scanned, reformatted and proudly redisplayed in the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center,
which will open in the Science and Engineering Quad (next to Y2E2) this October.
Simon Shi from Superstar Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) will come to demonstrate some of the latest features of the Duxiu (读秀知识库) and Chinamaxx e-book databases and answer questions.
Location: East Asia Library, 4th floor Meyer Library
Date: February 9, 2010
Time: 12 - 1 pm
The Digital Libraries include science and engineering resources that may be of interest to those trying to stay current with research in China.
Date: Thursday February 4, 2010 4:00pm-5:00pm
This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.
Speaker: Dr. Luc Vincent
Description:
Unveiled in May 2007, the Street View feature of Google Maps is the result of a substantial engineering effort. The initial vision for Street View was provided by Google co-founder Larry Page. Turning this initial vision into a product required developing major new pieces of technology. This presentation will go over some of these components and give the audience a peek at the Street View project from behind the scene.
The Engineering Library has added a new page to our collection of "How Do I Find..." guides. Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering lists ways to find the work experience or financial support you need from Stanford specific resources and those which are farther afield.
Check it out by selecting the "How Do I Find..." tab and look for the title under Resources by topic, or use the direct link http://lib.stanford.edu/engineering-library/funding-opportunitites-science-and-engineering.
PC World has just put up a video of the New Apple iPad
The specs for the device list a 9.7 inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, and a 1-gigahertz Apple A4 processor. Pricing for the iPad will be between $500 and $830, depending on configuration, and the device starts shipping in 60 days.
Title: How Organic Semiconductors Work
Date: Thursday January 28, 2010 4:00pm-5:00pm
This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC (www.parc.com/map). There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.
Speaker: Dr. Arthur P. Ramirez
Read the latest issue of Engineering Library News
Date: Thursday January 21, 2010 4:00pm-5:00pm
This event is free and open to the public; no registration required. All talks take place at George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC www.parc.com/map. There is parking available on site and the venue is handicap accessible.
