StartupCafe

The Silicon Valley Speaker Series organised by Mike Clouser never disappoints – and this year, it kicks off with Jeffrey Ullman, the PhD supervisor of Google Founder Sergey Brin. He has served on the Google Technical Advisory Board as well as being the CEO of Gradiance – an automated programming teaching tool. Ullman will be speaking at the Informatics Forum, next Wednesday. We’ll definitely be heading along – details below.

Google Changes the World

11:00 – 13.00
07 October 2009
Room G.07
Informatics Forum
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh

All students and friends in the wider community are invited to attend.

Silicon Valley Speaker: Professor Emeritus Dr. Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University

Dr. Ullman, an accomplished computer scientist who has worked at Stanford University for the past 40 years will give a talk about the founding of Google, and his relations to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, whom he advised. Dr. Ullman continues to serve on the technical advisory board of the company. Emerging opportunities in the informatics space for student entrepreneurs will be discussed as well. The talk is expected to be both highly inspiring and informative.

Invited is the wider Edinburgh community, including students, researchers, staff, as well as members of the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, Informatics Ventures, the Edinburgh TechMeetup Group, EPIS members, and friends.

About Jeff Ullman:

Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus). His interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He has held a role as an Associate or Full Professor at Stanford University since 1969. He is known globally not only for his prolific success as a computer scientist, but also as the PhD Supervisor to the co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He has served on the technical advisory board of Google since its founding. An entrepreneur himself, Dr. Ullman is also the founder of Gradiance Corporation, whose goal is to provide better, cheaper homework and programming-lab support for college courses. He has been the CE0 of this firm since 2003. Dr. Ullman earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1966, and a BS in Engineering Mathematics from Columbia University in 1963. He worked with Bell Labs from 1966-1969 before joining Stanford University.