Google's Cinco De Mayo open house. Don McMilan of technicallyfunny.com was a riot. MapReduce being used extensibly in Google for its fault tolerant and parallelness. Keyhole has other UI challenges (Lars Rasmussen, Mark Aubin) (Topics: Javascript, multi resolution rendering), Google Print has mechanical challenges and space and compression challenges (Joseph O' Sullivan) (Topics: Image processing, OCR, compression). Search quality has its own set of daily evolving challenges (Amit Singhal) (topics here relate to Information Retrieval). Larry says there are always only 20% of things that they are working and want to work on the rest as well and restricted by good people resources. We let employees work on their hobbies that make their mothers happy :) Urs Hoelzle the Hardware Platform guy best quip if the big companies don't solve our heating and energy problem we're going to have to solve it ourselves :) Same with the network routers that get prohibitively expensive when you scale. Rob Pike of Log analysis mentioned their language used for analyzing a record (and how this is so as to enable parallelism on multiple records). The log-language-programs emit data that they are programmed to emit while parsing. This feeds into independent aggregators that interpret the emitted data.
