The Future of Spam Filtering
When:
Thursday, December 11, 2003 - 7:00pm
Room:
8th fl
Lecturer(s):
Paul Graham, independent software developer and spam filtering guru Lecturer Biography:
Paul Graham is the designer of the Arc programming language. He inadvertently became a spam filter hacker when the filter he wrote to test Arc turned out to work. He most recently worked for Yahoo, and before that was president of Viaweb (now Yahoo Store). He has a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and has written two books on Lisp.
There is an article on "Saving Private E-mail" that discusses Paul's work and puts it in the context of other industry developments on pp. 40-44 of the August issue of IEEE Spectrum. More information can also be found on Paul's website at http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html.