We're hosting a tech talk with Facebook today from 6-7 PM. The speaker will be Sasha Rush '07 talking about Facebook Platform, the engine that drives all of those nifty applications you've been adding to your Facebook profile (Pirates, Ninjas, SuperSpank, etc). Specifically, the talk will be about optimizing Facebook Platform for Facebook's unusual load profile (lots of data for which each piece receives a very low hit rate). It should be good, plus I just confirmed pizza from Bertuccis, so you can skip dinner if you're so inclined.

Datamatch uses painstakingly developed computer algorithms and well-researched psychological profiles to find the perfect romantic match for you. Or maybe it's done randomly. We're not going to tell you. Either way, if you complete our questionnaire, our computer will generate a list of ten people, any of whom might be your perfect soulmate. Someone you'll want to marry and have twenty children with. Someone to share that dream within a dream, True Love. At least someone you'll want to take out for a triple decaf espresso. Or something.

Every year, around 2000 Harvard undergraduates take part in the largest campus event (except CEB Risk). Join us for Datamatch 2008!

www.hcs.harvard.edu/datamatch

Join the CS department for an open house dinner 5:30 - 6:30 on Tuesday, 2.5.08 in Maxwell Dworkin 221. Harvard College Engineering Society and Harvard Computer Society are holding this event to provide prospective CS concentrators with an opportunity to talk to professors, upperclassmen, and grad students about courses, extracurricular activities, work, and the future. Among professors attending are Prof. Malan, Prof. Welsh, Prof. Morrisett, Prof. Lewis, and Prof. Wood, who has promised to bring a robotic fly to the event.

Join HCS for a discussion with alum SJ Klein, the Director of Content for One Laptop Per Child, a project that aims to change the way children around the world learn by providing access to fundamentally different ways for them to learn. As OLPC starts its first deployments, come learn what makes the organization tick, how some of the cool technology they've developed makes their goals possible, and where they stand now.

The Harvard Computer Society is proud to announce a panel discussion
about helping students decide between Grad School and Industry. Come
see panelists from both Harvard and major companies like Google and
Akamai discuss their own stories and good strategies for building a career
in CS.