Events Sponsored by Facebook, Microsoft, Ness, Qualcomm, GreenGoose, Boeing, & Stanford Computer Forum.

Spring

THE BIG HACK The biggest hackathon between Stanford and Berkeley! Come for a competitive and fun night of hacking. From 1PM on April 14th to 1PM on April 15th enjoy food, music and the company of fellow hackers in the basement of Huang. (Note that there is a bus taking care of transportation from Berkeley).

Stanford students register at: http://bighack.eventbrite.com
Berkeley students register at: http://thebighack.eventbrite.com

LAN Party: PokeLAN 8 PM - 2 AM @ Arrillaga Dining Commons

First LAN party of the quarter, featuring the usual games (LoL, SC2, TF2, Brawl) and online pokemon battles. Bring yourself and your laptop/desktop to Arrillaga Dining for some epicness. Brought to you by Low Battery Gaming and Stanford ACM.

The Big Hack Part 2

After coming to Stanford, Cal has invited you to join them in a follow-up hackathon at Berkely. Transportation is provided. Join Cal in great food, coding, and prizes (over $3000 worth!) and beat their teams! To sign up visit the Eventbrite Page.

Tech Talks Sponsored by Yahoo. Every Friday @ 6 PM in Gates 104.
If you want to give a tech talk, read this.

Spring

Timothy Chklovski Chief Scientist at Factual Inc

Hacking on Big Data... in Clojure

Tomas Rokicki Stanford CS Ph.D. '93

Finding God's Number

Adam Boyet and Wen Fang Associate Tech Fellows at Boeing

Changing Business with IT Innovations: Apache Solr – Search Like the Big Dogs

Nicolás García Belmonte Data Visualization Scientist at Twitter

Using Web Standards to create Data Visualizations

Navneet Dalal Co-founder & CEO, Flutter

Achilles Heel in Machine Vision - Finding Objects in Images

Sam King Stanford student

Social Coding 4 Good: Drupal from Issue Trackers to Email

Sameer Shariff Software Engineer at Blip.me

From Zero to a Million: The Math of Viral Growth

Bennett Wilburn and Tim Knight MTS / Principal Engineer at Lytro

Lightfield Cameras

Travis Kiefer

Javascript - The Full Stack

Sridatta Thatipamala Founder and engineer at Flotype

Writing Scalable Realtime Web Services

Matt Lee Co-founder of Hyperink

The Future of Content: Apps, Social Networks, Ebooks?

Sean Maher Lead Developer at Tiny Co

Building Across Platform Mobile Engines

Quinn Slack and Eugene Marinelli Founders at Blend Labs

Real World HBase + Scala + Hadoop + AWS

Kurt Akeley Founder of SGI and Lytro

Light field displays