KeepRecipes Summer Internship [Jobs]

April 29, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Jobs

KeepRecipes – the “iTunes for Recipes” – has summer openings. Since launching in April 2011, we’ve delivered over 5,000 premium recipes from Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, Best Selling Author Mark Bittman, Star Chef Anita Lo. Try the alpha at http://keeprecipes.com and see coverage in NY1 Cable News, Mashable,SeriousEats and USA Today.

Consumers keep in one spot purchased recipes as well recipes collected from any online website, and access them on the iPhone, iPad, and Android. They upload photos and get ideas for dinner by following friends and brands.

We’re looking for Business Development and Product Marketing Management interns to engage chefs and new members. You’ll join KeepRecipes in the competitive DreamIT Summer Accelerator, located near Union Square in NYC, with access to great mentors and speakers from the NYC start up community including Union Square Ventures, Founder’s Collective, and more.

If you’re interested, contact Phil Michaelson, HBS ’09, at [email protected]

Finovate Spring Conference San Francisco

April 20, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Finovate is a leading conference that showcases new innovations and
start-ups in the financial services space. TechMedia club has
negotiated a special discount for HBS students to Finovatespring in
San Francisco (May 10th-11th).

Please email Emily Zhang for the Harvard discount code: ezhang (at) mba2011.hbs.edu

Companies that have demoed in the past include Mint.com, Bling Nation,
and BillShrink.

http://www.finovate.com/spring2011/

Quora Tech Talk

April 12, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Wednesday, April 13, 6:30-7:30 PM
Pierce 307
Beauty’s pizza served (both meat and veggie)

How much does Netflix spend on postage each year? According to
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings himself: about $600M
(http://www.quora.com/Netflix/How-much-does-Netflix-spend-on-postage-each-year).

Will the flu or common cold ever be eradicated like smallpox?
A virologist/immunologist explains exactly why medicine has conquered
one but not the others. Another biologist and an MD join in.

http://www.quora.com/Will-the-flu-or-common-cold-ever-be-eradicated-like-smallpox

It’d be difficult to find answers of this caliber anywhere else on the
web, as much of the world’s information today remains in peoples’
heads. Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and
answers created by everyone who uses it — a place for people to share
knowledge of all kinds.

At the same time, we’re a startup building technology that makes
engineers and designers amazingly productive at creating a highly
responsive website. Our founders include the first CTO of Facebook,
employees come from top schools including Harvard, MIT, Stanford,
Caltech, and CMU, and many have previously worked at Google, Facebook,
and Twitter. (Meet the team at http://www.quora.com/about/team .)

This Wednesday evening at 6:30, come to Pierce 307 to see a
demonstration of our technology and a technical talk about how it
works. Pizza from Beauty’s will be served.

Contact: Greg Price ’06-’07

Sponsored by Harvard Computer Society

HackHarvard HackNights NOW on Tuesday Night

April 12, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Just a reminder that our Hack Nights have moved from Wednesday nights to Tuesday nights. Come hang out with us on Tuesday night 9pm-2am in Maxwell-Dworkin! As usual, there will be plenty of food, snacks, hacking, and great conversations. Here’s a wonderful testimonial by someone who attended last week:

“I have to say that HackHarvard was incredible. The people were genuinely friendly, the ideas were fresh, and there was food! HackHarvard seems to represent the Harvard I always thought I would find, but seems not to exist: bright young minds working on exciting problems together at their own initiative, bouncing ideas off each other just for the sheer joy of thinking. God, I wish this kind of community existed in music, theater, film, comedy, politics, art… any of the other fields here.”

AppDirect Founder/CEO Dinner

April 9, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Date: 11 April 2011

Daniel Saks, the founder and CEO of AppDirect, is in Boston and wants to host a small group dinner with students on Monday night (April 11th).

AppDirect (www.appdirect.com) is a business app marketplace (think iTunes for business cloud apps) that recently got $3M funding. AppDirect, based in San Francisco, is hiring interns and graduates for business roles. Space is limited to the first 10 students.

Please email Emily Zhang ([email protected]) if you are interested in attending.

IdeaStorm 13 at MIT

April 6, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

IdeaStorm 13, in collaboration with the MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship & Innovation Club and Cambridge Innovation Center.

Get ready to join the biggest and best brainstorming session ever. Tickets are limited so please register below.

For those of you new to IdeaStorm, it’s a fast-paced, lightly moderated, high energy brainstorming session. Creative Ideas + Entrepreneurial Minds = Great Teams + Hot Startups. Bring your startup idea for others to help build on, or just bring your creativity and feedback for peers.

Event format:
1. Challenge Question – Ex: “How can we use WiFi to improve everyday items?”
2. Fresh Ideas – Pitch your ideas to the group and brainstorm
3. Founder’s Dilemma – Help a real founder tackle a real business problem

Bring ideas, bring feedback, and bring friends! Don’t worry if you have to leave early.

http://ideastorm.tumblr.com/


@MIT_IdeaStorm

The next Ideastorm is on April 12 from 6-8pm at CIC (Kendall Square). It should be pretty big with ~200 people and local founders in each breakout group.

Registration: http://ideastorm13.eventbrite.com/

Contact Sean: [email protected]

TechCrunch Disrupt NYC

March 28, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Harvard Students interested in TechCrunch Disrupt in NYC May 23-25th should contact Douglas Melchior (Twitter: @melchiorda).  Tickets are $200.  You need to do the following:

1) Email Gene McPherson ([email protected]) with a scanned copy of your transcript and valid student ID

2) Gene will respond with a PayPal link and password.  You’ll need to pay the $200

3) Coordinate with Douglas about the group meet up.

HackNight [HackHarvard]

March 28, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

HackHarvard HackNight – Bring your project, and be eager to start coding.

A number of students, including David Kosslyn, Eric Hysen, Tommy MacWilliam, Julia Mitelman, Peter Boyce, and more, have recently been discussing the idea of holding regular weekly HackNights at Harvard. We loved the energy and excitement that came out of the HackHarvard winter incubator, and we would love to keep that energy going throughout the school year. There are a lot of talented people at Harvard who are hacking on their own projects alone, or in small groups, and we would love to bring those people together and encourage more students to take on projects outside of classes.

Here’s a link to a draft of our HackNight proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bKjKXnjvvdVmttXWfKEX11Uhh8c-JlsOXyt7-ZqCV5I/edit?hl=en&authkey=CIzQgI0L

What do you guys think? In particular, we’d like to generate some discussion around:
a) Is there interest in the community? Would you guys be willing to come regularly to these meetups?
b) What kind of event programming would interest you most? We have a lot of great ideas for stuff we could do, but at the same time we also want to keep it an organic meetup of people who love to hack together.

Keep in mind that we’re looking to develop a sustainable, regular program, that people will continue to come back for.

We’ve already gotten sponsorships to provide lots of food and snacks, and we’re working with David Malan to make MD available for these events.

We would love to hear from everyone here on [hcs-d]! We’re doing this for the benefit of this community, and we want to do the best we can to serve everyone here.

 

When: March 30, 2011 at 9pm
Where: Maxwell Dworkin Lobby

Machine Learning on Big Data: Lessons Learned from Google Projects [HCS]

March 28, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

Machine Learning on Big Data: Lessons Learned from Google Projects

Harvard CS264 2011 Guest Lecture Series
“Massively Parallel Computing” Course (http://www.cs264.org)

Speaker: Max Lin (Google Research)
Host: Nicolas Pinto (Harvard, MIT)

Date: 3-29-2011
Time: 7:35 PM
Location: Harvard Maxwell Dworkin G125 (http://j.mp/eCgV66)

Abstract:

Machine learning researchers and practitioners develop computer algorithms that “improve performance automatically through experience”.  At Gogole, machine learning is applied to solve many problems, such as prioritizing emails in Gmail, recommending tags for YouTube videos, and identifying different aspects from online user reviews.  Machine learning on big data, however, is challenging.  Some “simple” machine learning algorithms with quadratic time complexity,
while running fine with hundreds of records, are almost impractical to use on billions of records.

In this talk, I will describe lessons drawn from various Google projects on developing large scale machine learning systems.  These systems build on top of Google’s computing infrastructure such as GFS and MapReduce, and attack the scalability problem through massively
parallel algorithms.  I will present the design decisions made in these systems, strategies of scaling and speeding up machine learning systems on web scale data.

Speaker biography:

Max Lin is a software engineer with Google Research in New York City office.  He is the tech lead of the Google Prediction API, a machine learning web service in the cloud.  Prior to Google, he published research work on video content analysis, sentiment analysis, machine
learning, and cross-lingual information retrieval.  He had a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dan Rosenberg on Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures [HCS]

March 28, 2011  |  No Comments  |  by douglas  |  Events

The Harvard Computer Society presents Dan Rosenberg, to talk about Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), vulnerability research, and computer security in general.
When: March 28, 2011 at 8 PM
Where: SOCH Penthouse, Hilles Student Center, The Quad, Harvard College
Who: You. And Dan Rosenberg.

Dan is a security consultant at Virtual Security Research and an accomplished software vulnerability researcher, having published dozens of vulnerabilities in both open source and commercial applications. His current research interests include kernel security (especially Linux) and exploit development on hardened kernel environments and mobile devices. At VSR, he performs code reviews,
penetration testing, and identifies vulnerabilities in third-party applications. He recently[1] got his 100th CVE, and is regularly featured on USNs. A full list of his CVEs is available here[2].

As always, there will be pizza. So come by, and chat with him about his work, or ask questions about where to get started yourself!

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