Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998)

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by econner • 16 years ago

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abless• 16 years ago

Imagine having been a TA for this class...

frisco3• 16 years ago

It looks like the TA, Diane Tang, ended up at Google.

lian• 16 years ago

Twist ending!

akozak• 16 years ago

In case anyone is curious, here is a working link to the paper for the Introduction class, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

raheemm• 16 years ago

Stanford has some bad-ass classes...

javanix• 16 years ago

I think my favorite part of this was:

It has culminated in the WebBase project whose aims are to maintain a local copy of the World Wide Web

Weird to think that a local copy of the internet was actually feasible only twelve years ago.

pjscott• 16 years ago

And it took up roughly 150 GB. Six average BluRay movies take up as much space on disk as the 1998 internet. Hosting that much on Amazon S3 would cost about $20 per month, not including bandwidth bills.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

nkassis• 16 years ago

Even 1 SSD disk could hold all of that for cheaper than a 5gb hard drives back then.

pak• 16 years ago

It goes to show that even if space and bandwidth are cheap (and they will only get cheaper), creating content will always be enormously expensive.

chrisbroadfoot• 16 years ago

Are you implying it isn't feasible today?

zmarty• 16 years ago

So... they were teaching a whole course while they were PhD students?

frisco3• 16 years ago

Yeah; not that uncommon for a major research university.

kylemathews• 16 years ago

This is a bit surreal. 12 years ago, two of the most powerful men in the world were lowly graduate students...

naz• 16 years ago

Sadly, only two.

frisco3• 16 years ago

Is that really uncommon? Where was your average "young powerful elite" a whole twelve years ago? I think that on average they were lowly grad students or undergrads a decade ago. The bounds for movement over 12 years is huge. It's a long time.

Larry and Sergey's CS349 at Stanford (last updated Oct 1998)

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