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ACM Weekly Events Digest Oct. 17 – Oct. 21

Palantir Info Session, Monday(TODAY) Oct. 17 6:00pm EEB125
Palantir is revolutionizing the way financial and governmental analysts are interacting with massive datasets. They offer platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information. The platforms support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Furthermore, their platforms are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration. Come see a live demo of how their software works to tackle hard, important, and globally relevant problems.

VMWare Tech Talk, Tuesday Oct. 18 4:30pm-5:30pm EEB303
VMware develops virtualization software that lets users run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. One feature of VMs saving the state of running “virtual machine” and loading that state in the future. However, loading a saved VM can be time-consuming because the state, including a large memory image, must be fetched from persistent storage. This talk will present an improved technique for restoring saved VMs using working set estimation.

Plus, hear from UW Alum, Jehad Affoneh, on his recent experience in job hunting, making the tough decision, including his tips on the best approach, and what his experience has been like working in a software company the past few months.

Yelp Info Session, Tuesday Oct. 18 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Yelp is an online urban city guide that helps people find cool places to eat, shop, drink, relax and play, based on the opinions of its users. Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what’s great — and not so great — in your world.

Industrial Affiliates Recruiting Fair, Thursday Oct. 20 10:00am-3:00pm Atrium
UW CSE has relationships with tons of software companies looking for all sorts of students. Come out this Thursday to get your resume around and rub elbows with recruiters.

Intel Career Night, Thursday Oct. 20 6:00pm-7:00pm EEB125
Find out how you can be part of Moore’s Law this Thursday. The Software Solutions Group, Microprocessor Development Group, Visual and Parallel Computing Group, and the PC Client Group will all have representatives present. Please bring your resume.

October 17, 2011