Jeffrey Ullman SICSA Seminar at School of Computing on 7th October
Posted: 02/10/2009
Prof Jeffrey Ullman will be visiting the School of Computing on Wednesday 7th October. As Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University in California, Prof Ullman advised Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two students who went on to create Google.
Prof Ullman will be holding an afternoon SICSA seminar on the themes of academic roles in start-ups and spinouts, and emerging opportunities in computer science for technologies and new venture creation. The seminar is aimed very much at academics and researchers, including PhD students, with an entrepreneurial interest. This afternoon session will begin at 16.00 and is being held in the Wolfson Theatre of the Queen Mother Building.
He will also deliver a keynote speech during the evening at Dundee, entitled "Google Changes the World" at 19.00, also in the Wolfson Theatre.
For those who would like to attend these events, places need to be reserved through Danny Helson (DHelson[at]ed.ac.uk). Demand for places is strong and unfortunately it may be that we cannot accommodate everyone who would like to hear Prof Ullman speak.
Prof Ullman is also speaking at the University of Edinburgh (on Friday 9 October) during his visit to Scotland and it may be that some spaces might be available there. These also must be reserved through Danny Helson.
About Jeff Ullman:
Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus). His interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He has held a role as an Associate or Full Professor at Stanford University since 1969.
He is known globally not only for his prolific success as a computer scientist, but also as the PhD Supervisor to the co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. He has served on the technical advisory board of Google since its founding.
An entrepreneur himself, Dr. Ullman is also the founder of Gradiance Corporation, whose goal is to provide better, cheaper homework and programming-lab support for college courses. He has been the CEO of this firm since 2003.
Dr. Ullman earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1966, and a BS in Engineering Mathematics from Columbia University in 1963. He worked with Bell Labs from 1966-1969 before joining Stanford University.