Monthly Archives: October 2012

Today Stan Nikolov, who just finished his masters at MIT in studying information diffusion networks,  walked us through one particular theoretical model of information diffusion which tries to predict under what conditions an idea stops spreading based on a network’s … Continue reading →

Kurt Thomas is a former Twitter engineer and a current PhD student at UC Berkeley who studies how the criminal underground conspires to make money via unintended uses of computer systems.  He is also a very talented lecturer as this … Continue reading →

Alpa Jain has great experience teaching from her time as a graduate student at Columbia University, and it shows in the clarity of her descriptions of SVD and other recommendation algorithms in today’s lecture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSscbT7JwxY When I asked at the … Continue reading →

On Thursday, Delip Rao electrified the class with a lecture on how Twitter combats the pervasive threat of tweet spam: (Lecture notes are not available.) UC Berkeley students are lucky to have gotten to hear @deliprao in person.  Thank you … Continue reading →

For those of you who follow the latest developments in the Big Data technology stack, you’ll know that GraphLab is the hottest technology for processing huge graphs in fast time.  We got to hear the algorithms behind GraphLab 2 even … Continue reading →