Alumni Talk with Harald Prokop SM'99: Architect of Akamai's "Secret Sauce"
Harald Prokop SM'99
Tue Jan 29, 05:30-06:45pm, Bush Room, 10-105
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Harald Prokop is the VP of Engineering & QA & Chief Architect at Akamai Technologies. Mr. Prokop currently leads the global engineering teams & is responsible for building Akamai's distributed computing platform, defining & executing Akamai's technology strategy with a focus on innovating it's market-leading services.
Mr. Prokop joined Akamai in '99 as one of the Akamai's first engineers. He is the architect of Akamai's "secret sauce," the Internet measurement & traffic management platform that is at the core of all of Akamai's services. He has designed the development & testing process that brought Akamai's services to market. Mr. Prokop holds a number of patented technologies that are incorporated into Akamai's services.
Q&A & pizza will follow Alumni Talk. Register below so we know how much pizza to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=18622&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Casey, W59-212, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Alumni Talk with Mike Afergan PhD'05: Chief Technology Officer of Akamai
Mike Afergan PhD'05
Tue Jan 8, 04:30-05:45pm, Bush Room, 10-105
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Mike Afergan is the Chief Technology Officer of Akamai. He is a veteran of Akamai's distinguished engineering organization, having joined in 1999, & has served in various roles within it's Engineering & Product Management departments, including Director of Technology Strategy & Director of Load Balancing & Mapping.
Dr. Afergan also has a distinguished academic research career. At MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science & at Harvard, he has conducted research including the impact of economic incentives on networked systems, reliable networking & content distribution protocols, & wireless protocols & architectures. He has authored a number of academic publications & has served as a teaching fellow & guest lecturer at Harvard.
Q&A & Pizza will follow the Talk. Register below so we know how much pizza to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=18623&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Casey, W59-212, x2-3772, kcasey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Alumni Talk: Online Video Ads - How MIT intersects with Madison Avenue
Waikit Lau '97
Tue Jan 15, 05-06:15pm, Bush Room, 10-105
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Online videos are proliferating. YouTube has become a cultural phenomenon in a short period of time. However, many videos make money by using pre-roll ads - 30-second commercials before the video - which destroys user experience.
ScanScout, a Boston-based startup founded by MIT alums & well-funded by tier-one venture capital firms & Time Warner, provides a compelling alternative to pre-roll video ads & a new way to make ads more relevant to the users. ScanScout's Co-founder & President Waikit Lau '97 will discuss the who, how, and why of this online media trend. He will examine alternatives could make the online video experience better through machine learning, speech recognition, visual & semantic analyses, doing for online videos what Google AdSense had done for web pages.
Register below so we know how much pizza to order.
Web: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=18621&groupID=194
Contact: Katie Casey, W59-212, x2-3372, kcasey@mit.edu
Sponsor: Alumni Association
Cosponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Introduction to the Apple iPhone and Web Applications
Andrew Yu, Matthew Sullivan, Justin Anderson
Thu Jan 24, 01-02:30pm, 32-155
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: n/a
The Apple iPhone was introduced in June, 2007 and changed the way we think about smartphones. One of the key features of the iPhone is the ability to view full web sites as well as take advantage of web applications specifically designed for the iPhone.
This session will provide an introduction to the iPhone and web applications:
1. Introduction to the iPhone
2. How does the iPhone work @ MIT?
3. Web Applications for the iPhone: Examples
4. How to create Web Applications for the iPhone
5. What's Next?
Web: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/
Contact: Andrew Yu, N42-250i, (617) 324-8985, andrewyu@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Services and Technology
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