he UCLA Linux Users Group is proud to host an InfoSession with local web
statup NetSeer.com

****This Thrusday February 21st at 6pm in Boelter Hall 4760****

"Distributed crawling in Linux with Nutch/Hadoop and Amazon's Elastic Compute
Cloud (EC2)"

There are many technical issues inherent in crawling the billions of pages of
that make up the Web. Building a large, fixed web crawling infrastructure
could be quite expensive and complicated, particularly if you do not really
need to frequently re-crawl. Such a system needs to be platform independent,
highly scalable, fault tolerant and complete decentralized.

Additionally, in order to handle such a large set of data, we require an
underlying distributed filesystem that is equally scalable and fault
tolerant. In this talk, we will discuss our approach to web crawling using
Nutch/Hadoop, an open source distributed search engine system, and Amazon's
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.)

At NetSeer, we analyze and process the results of our web crawling, and
extract semantic concepts and conceptual relationships from the Web. These
concepts can then be used for improving search results, providing more
relevant ads, and a host of other applications. After the technical portion
of our talk, we will also provide more information on NetSeer, and we will be
accepting resumes.

Pizza and soda will be provided!!!!

For details visit http://linux.ucla.edu and check out http://NetSeer.com to
find out more about the company.

Are you interested in an internship or a full time position with Hitachi?

Recruiters from Hitachi will be holding an infosession on Wednesday, February 13 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in BH 4760.

Bring your resumes and as always there will be free food and drinks.

Sponsored by ACM and UPE.

The CS Town Hall Meeting is an annual event where faculty members from the CS Department and students gather to discuss issues regarding the Computer Science Major. If you have any questions or concerns about CS that have been bugging you please stop by Boelter 3400 on January 30th and have your questions answered.
Got a question but don't want to be put on the spot? Then send us an email at cstownhall@gmail.com and we'll ask them for you!
Also, there will be free food and drinks.. so don't miss it!

Disney is offering internships targeting engineering students. Details are in the attached documents. If interested, please email tiffany.a.herrington [AT] disney.com or submit your resume online.

Click on this story for the job descriptions.

TECH TALK/INFO SESSION
Tuesday, January 15
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Engineering IV Building - 5th Floor, Room 57-124
PIZZA AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED

Come and learn about NVIDIA’s growing business! Hear first hand what it’s like to be an engineer at NVIDIA.

OPEN TO CS, EE, EECS & ECE STUDENTS

Participate in the Imagine Cup IT Challenge and win a prize!

Visit http://www.imaginecup.com/ and sign up to participate in the IT Challenge. There are 2 upcoming days to take the quiz, so make sure to sign up as soon as you can.

After you have signed up, email nnikzad[AT]student-partners[DOT]com with you Imagine Cup user name. The UCLA student that gets the highest score will win a free copy of Halo 3!

What are the provisions of the award?
Scholarships are awarded to recipients for one academic year. The scholarship will cover up to 100 percent of the tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year as posted by the financial aid office of the university or college. Scholarships are made through the designated school and are not transferable to other academic institutions. Funds are to be used for tuition only and may not be used for other costs on the recipient's bursar bill. All recipients of the scholarship will be required to complete a salaried summer internship of 12 weeks or more at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft reserves the right not to offer a position to the scholarship winner if an appropriate match cannot be found.

The Winter 2008 UCLA ACM Quarterly Programming Contest is now live! This quarter's winner will receive a Google USB wireless optical mouse. Efficiency counts in this contest. Don't forget to review the Contest Rules before submitting. Deadline for submissions is 1 March 2008 at 11:59:59 PM.

Interested in a software position with Lockheed Martin?

Lockheed will be on campus for an infosession & interviews in February looking for full-time grads and interns.

Dates: Infosession - February 4, 2008
Interviews: Conducted during the following days
Location: Bradley International Hall, Rooms 3 & 4
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

There will also be a seminar titled: “I’m Hired, Now What!”
starting at 4:30 pm in the Bradley Hall rooms mentioned above.

Sign up through the UCLA Career Center website for consideration.

Google is launching a new monthly newsletter, called Google onCampus, featuring information for students looking for internships, full-time employment and participation in special events.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-oncampus

Here's an early look at the January 2008 issue:

Campus News
2008 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship - Application deadline is Friday, February 1, 2008
2008 Google Summer Internships
2007 UNCF and HCF Google Scholarship Winners
Business Week Article: Google and the Wisdom of Clouds