3 Aug 06 – Prof. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University – IIT/Yahoo! Speaker Series

Prof. Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber
Jon Kleinberg is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research interests are centered around algorithmic issues at the interface of networks and information, with an emphasis on the social and information networks that underpin the Web and other on-line media. He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, research fellowships from the MacArthur, Packard, and Sloan Foundations, teaching awards from the Cornell Engineering College and Computer Science Department, and the 2001 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research.

What: Economics of Cascading Behavior in Communication
The flow of information through a large social network can be thought of as unfolding with the dynamics of an epidemic: as individuals become aware of new ideas, technologies, fads, rumors, or gossip, they have the potential to pass them on to their friends and colleagues, causing the resulting behavior to cascade through the network. We will consider a collection of models for such phenomena proposed in the mathematical social sciences, as well as recent algorithmic work on the problem by computer scientists. Building on this, we discuss the implications of cascading behavior in a number of on-line settings, including the diffusion of topics among bloggers, the effect of “word of mouth” in the promotion of new products, and the influence of social networks in the growth of on-line communities.

Where: Yahoo! Mission College Campus (Contact iitd-at-mac.com if you’d like to attend)
When: Thursday, August 3 @ 11am-12pm
More information: http://research.yahoo.com/bigthinkers

IIT Bombay SF Bay Area Speaker Series – 2006

This is the second in a series of Speaker Events planned in 2006. This event is a networking event followed by presentation with audience participation.

Topic: Perspectives on Internet and Enterprise Security

Speakers:

Rajeev Khanolkar, President NetCom

Ambarish Malpani, CTO, Cenzic

Sanjay Uppal, CEO Caymas

 

Date: July 13, 2006

Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Place: Tibco Cafeteria,

Directions: http://tibco.com/company/directions_hq.jsp

Entrance fee: $10 (Refreshments will be served) [Register Online]

Rajeev Khanolkar, Co-founder and President, Net-Com Systems

Rajeev Khanolkar co-founded NetCom Systems with Niten Ved. Rajeev brings over 25 years of experience in technology and IT management to his role as Co-Founder and President. Rajeev served as CEO of netForensics from May 1999 to Sept 2005 after which he returned to NetCom Systems as President.

Prior to NetCom Systems, Rajeev held a number of senior management positions in organizations like Xecute Information Systems, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and General Electric Corporation Turbine Generators. He holds a Master of Science in Thermodynamics from the University of Birmingham, Great Britain and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Khanolkar is also a Charter Engineer Member of Institute of Engineering, UK.

Ambarish Malpani, Vice President of Engineering & CTO, Cenzic

Prior to Cenzic, Ambarish founded ValiCert, Inc., where he was responsible for product development, architecture and standards efforts. He has worked extensively at IETF and is responsible for both the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and Simple Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP). He also developed the first OCSP responders. While at ValiCert, Ambarish was also responsible for doing the first port of the Apache web server to Windows NT, which he then contributed back to the Apache group.

Ambarish got his Masters in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and his Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay).

Sanjay Uppal, President and CEO, Caymas

Sanjay has been responsible for Caymas Systems product development, marketing, customer service and business development organizations and was instrumental in defining the business and technical requirements of the Identity-Driven Access Gateway.

Prior to joining Caymas Systems, he was Senior Vice President of Products at Silvan Networks and at Webvan where he was Vice President of Engineering and Business Development responsible for the company’s unprecedented multi-city data center, network architecture, deployment, and extension of the shopping experience to mobile appliances. Sanjay spent the first twelve years of his career at Hewlett-Packard. His last position at HP was General Manager of the Internet Infrastructure Division.

Sanjay holds a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, an MS in ECE from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Master’s in Management of Technology from Stanford University.

Welcome to the Pan IIT Blog!

Hi Folks,

We’re launching this Pan IIT Blog to inform our alumni of all the exciting events and activities happening in the Bay Area. We hope to provide a common voice across IITs – and provide a forum for interchange of ideas!

Welcome aboard!

Amit Kumar
President, IIT Delhi, Bay Area
http://bayarea.iitdef.org