Publications

UC Berkeley has recently made freely available videos of many lectures.

Among them is a video of

SIMS 141 - Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin - Google

a guest lecture of Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and President, at a course on Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business, taught by Marti Hearst.

Other lectures in IS 141 course are also available.

Course Description: Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC Berkeley School of Information was created in 1994 to address one of society??�s most compelling challenges: enabling people to create, find, manipulate, share, store, and use information in myriad forms. [courses] [is141] [fall2005]