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May 30 Wed Search For The Next PussyCat Engine:
Meow! Too Sexy For My UI

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Event Title: Search For The Next PussyCat Engine: Meow! Too Sexy For My UI

Theme Song: I'm Too Sexy For You
Date & Time: 5/30/2007 Wed 6:30pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric "The Matrix" Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539

Who Should Attend?
Product Managers
User Experience Directors
User Interface Engineers
Information Architects
Interactive Engineers
Web Application Developers
Web Designers

What You Learn?
Successful factors of popular well-designed vertical search engines
Mistakes of search engines in the past
Product design such as User interface, Information Architecture
Interactive design patterns in vertical search engines
How our experts design the search patterns on vertical product search engines
Moderator & Presenter:
Bryan Zmijewski, Chief Instigator at LuckyOliver & Design Lecturer at Stanford University

Discussion Panelists:
Hongche Liu, Chief Information Architect at Spock Networks
Ash Damle, CEO at MEDgle
Peter Weck, CTO at SimplyHired
Burak Gokturk, CTO at Riya

6:30pm-7:30pm Networking, Food & Drink
7:30pm-9:00pm Discussion Panel
9:00pm-9:45pm LuckyOliver Demo & Design Conceptualization on Ideation
9:45pm Giveaways Sponsored by O'Reilly & LuckyOliver

Every attendee will receive tokens from LuckyOliver for professional photo stock. Must attend to receive tokens.
Giveaways:
O'Reilly

LuckyOliver
5/30/07 Search For The Next PussyCat Engine - Silicon Valley Web Builder




Speakers
Hongche Liu, Chief Information Architect at Spock Networks
HongChe LiuHongche Liu is the founding Chief Information Architect at Spock Networks, the people search engine. He is leading the information retrieval, search ranking and crawling efforts. Before Spock, Hongche was a software architect and evangelist at Yahoo. He led the effort to build the Behavioral Targeting system, tracking and modeling all of Yahoo users real-time and trended behaviors to help personalization and ad targeting. He also built the content management system that enables the serving of customized contextual ads. He was also a principal engineer in a team that built the ad inventory prediction and management system. Before Yahoo, Hongche was a director of R&D at Etak, a subsidiary of SONY. He led an effort to build the world’s largest topologically connected digital map database. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland. He received his BS in EE from Taiwan University. In His spare time, Hongche is an avid badminton player. His aspiration is to compete in the world senior badminton championship within 30 years.



Peter Weck, CTO at SimplyHired
Peter WeckPeter has over fifteen years of software development and management experience. Previously, he was an Engineering Director at AOL / Netscape where he managed the Shop@AOL, WebMail and Address Book engineering teams. He came to AOL / Netscape through the acquisition of AtWeb, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Prior to AtWeb, Peter worked at Hewlett-Packard in the enterprise order fulfillment group. He has also held engineering positions at GeoWorks and Summation Legal Technologies, Inc. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1994 with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.








Burak Gokturk, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at Riya
Burak GokturkDr. Gokturk is a co-founder and CTO of Riya Inc. He currently leads the research team in Riya Inc. Dr. Gokturk spent over a decade in the image recognition field developing algorithms in medical imaging to provide the best recognition rates in early diagnosis of colon cancer. During this time he also developed algorithms in human tracking, facial expression tracking and recognition, object based compression systems, design of 3D cameras, and virtual keyboard systems. This work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, U.S. patents and used in a variety of products. After devoting many years to the image recognition field, Dr. Gokturk and his team have focused the past two years on building technology for vast consumer use. In particular, he developed two major internet-based products: Riya.com and Like.com. Dr. Gokturk and his team have created model based face recognition algorithms with application to consumer photographs. This was the first attempt for a face recognition application in the consumer space and under completely uncontrolled environments. This one-of-a-kind product, which demonstrates facial recognition as well as text recognition technology, can be visited at Riya.com. Most recently, Dr. Gokturk developed algorithms for product recognition including segmentation and image representation as well as automatic algorithms to learn the importance of color, pattern and shape for soft consumer goods. This innovative product serves as similarity shopping guide for consumers and can be accessed at Like.com. Through the invention and deployment of these technologies, Dr. Gokturk and his team’s image recognition algorithms are used by millions of people for the first time since the inception of the field.


Ash Mamle, CEO at MEDgle
Ash Damle is the CEO of MEDgle, a personalized medical search. MEDgle's goal is to make medical information easily and intuitively accessible for the benefit and betterment of everybody. Previously, Ash was the CEO of 2028, a vertical search and expert system platform which is used by the companies such as MIT Media Lab and CTB (a division of McGraw-Hill). In addition Ash has worked as a senior consultant in the retail/financial technology sector with companies such as Skillnet Solutions and the R&D at Citicorp. Over the course of the last 7 years, Ash has consistently worked on enabling practical artificial intelligence in such areas as: real-time ray tracers, automated path planning, supply chain optimization, business intelligence, and search. In addition Ash has worked globally in countries the US, UK, India, and China. Ash graduated from MIT with majors in computer science and mathematics. Ash's other interests include kendo, akido, reading, running, and the occational pickup basketball game.



Bryan Zmijewski, Chief Instigator at LuckyOliver & Design Lecturer at Stanford University
Bryan ZmijewskiEntrepreneur Bryan Zmijewski is a Campbell, California based brand engineer, writer and consultant. While completing his Bachelor's degree in Product Design from Stanford University, Bryan began working with Skyline, a manufacturer of children's toys.

As Skyline's first employee, Bryan gained experience in many areas. Impressed by his design sense and his self-starter nature, Skyline founders made Bryan responsible not only for creating ideas for new toys, but also for deciding how best to market those toys. Bryan's hard work helped move Skyline from a startup company to an industry leader; the company was purchased by product design giant IDEO.

After acquisition by IDEO, Bryan helped integrate Skyline into IDEO, ensuring a smooth transition and establishing strategic energy. In his continued work with IDEO, he facilitated communication and working relationships with more than 100 toy companies, as well as helping create and license more than 40 toy concepts to companies like Mattel (Barbie, Fisher Price, and Tyco), Hasbro and Playmates.

Bryan became more interested in running his own business. This interest led him to co-found eXPLICO, Inc. His experience at eXPLICO gave him a crash course in the intricacies and many tasks that must be handled in order to successfully start a business. Bryan was responsible for everything from the company's website development, recruiting and managing 9 consultants, pitching the company to potential angel investors and recruiting board members.

At the same time of his work at eXPLICO, Bryan also served as a lecturer at Stanford University, an assignment he still holds today. Within the University's design division, Bryan teaches both basic and advanced design conceptualization classes. During his tenure, he introduced a curriculum focusing on utilizing new technologies to improve ideation, and integrating business concepts and trends from the new economy.

While continuing his teaching duties at Stanford, Bryan formed ZURB in February of 1998. At ZURB, Bryan serves as a brand engineer providing strategic design, marketing and branding assistance. His work for clients including Sun Microsystems, Versitas, Finisar and ClickTracks has included identity development, illustration, information design, web design, software design, icon design and multimedia work.

Bryan's future plans include co-authoring a book on the intangibles inherent in business relationships, lecturing to both students and business groups on design issues and continuing to grow his art and photography interests.

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