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

by econner on 12/1/2010, 10:39 PM with 15 comments
  • by javanix on 12/2/2010, 12:45 AM

    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.

  • by kylemathews on 12/2/2010, 6:08 AM

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

  • by akozak on 12/1/2010, 11:53 PM

    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

  • by zmarty on 12/2/2010, 1:20 AM

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

  • by abless on 12/1/2010, 11:52 PM

    Imagine having been a TA for this class...

  • by raheemm on 12/1/2010, 11:58 PM

    Stanford has some bad-ass classes...