Stanford Google Book Search -- * 4:15PM, Wed Feb 15, 2006 in Gates B01]

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Subject: [CSL Colloq] Google Book Search -- * 4:15PM, Wed Feb 15, 2006
in Gates B01
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:58:03 -0800
From: allison () stanford edu
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Organization: Stanford Computer Systems Lab Colloquium
To: dave () farber net

             Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

                 4:15PM, Wednesday, Feb 15, 2006
        HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]


Topic:    Google Book Search --
          Making off-line content fully searchable on the web

Speaker:  Daniel Clancy
          Google

About the talk:

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, it revolutionized how
people accessed information by allowing printed text to be
reproducible. A similar revolution occurred with the advent of
the Internet. The Internet provides users with billions of pages
of information at the touch of their fingertips. However, a great
deal of the world's information still is only accessible in
printed form through books and other mediums. For many Internet
users, this content is difficult to find in comparison to the
vast amounts of information that can be found through Google and
other search engines on the Web.

The Google Book Search project is an ambitious project designed
to make offline book content fully searchable via the web. Google
works with publishers to digitize and index their in-print books
providing users with the ability to sample portions of the book
to help them select the appropriate book to purchase. In the
Library project, Google is working with many of world's leading
libraries to digitize their collections and make them fully
searchable. For public domain works, the books are fully
accessible via the web while for in-copyright books users are
limited to viewing a few short sentences of the text contextually
relevant to their search.

In undertaking this project, Google had to address numerous
technical challenges since a digitization effort on this scale
had not been previously attempted. In this talk, I will discuss
the motivation for the project and some of the technical
challenges that Google has faced in this project. I will then
focus on some of the research challenges that remain.

Slides:

About the speaker:

Dr. Daniel J. Clancy, PhD, is the Engineering Director for the
Google Book Search Project. This project is working to bring
off-line books content on-line and make it searchable to allow
discovery of books. Google is working with both publishers and
libraries as part of this project.

Prior to coming to Google in January 2005, Dr. Clancy was the
Director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames
Research Center. The Directorate supports over 700 people
performing both basic and applied research in a diverse range of
technology areas intended to enable both robotic and human
exploration missions. Technology areas include Intelligent
Systems, High-end Computing, Human-Centered Systems,
Bio/Nanotechnology, Entry Systems and others. In this role, Dr.
Clancy played numerous roles at the agency level including
participating in the team that developed the agency?s plan to
return men to the Moon and eventually Mars.

Dr. Clancy received his PhD from the University of Texas at
Austin in artificial intelligence. While in school, Dr. Clancy
also worked at Trilogy Corporation, the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and Xerox Webster Research center. Dr. Clancy received
a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1985 in computer
science and theatre.

Contact information:

Daniel J. Clancy
1600 Amphitheatre Way
Mountain View, ca 94035
650-996-7797
dclancy () google com


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