Princeton University
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Computer Science 448
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The schedule and syllabus is preliminary and will evolve throughout the course. Students should check this page frequently.
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| Week 1: 01/31, 02/02 What is a CTO? |
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| Week 2: 02/07, 02/09 What does a CTO do? (slides) |
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| Week 3: 02/14, 02/16 Trends-1: Marketplaces |
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| Week 4: 02/21, 02/23 Trends-2: Cloud Computing (slides) |
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| Week 5: 02/28, 03/02 Online Advertising (slides) |
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| Wed 03/02 | Guest Speaker: Tom Siebel (First Virtual Group, and formerly founder and CEO of Siebel Systems) | ||
| Week 6: 03/07, 03/09 Online Advertising (contd.) |
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| Spring Break | N/A | N/A | |
| Week 7: 03/21, 03/23 Architecture, Measurement and Evaluation |
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| Sun 03/27 | Paper #1 Due at 23:59 EST | ||
| Week 8: 03/28, 03/30 Scalable Infrastructure (slides) |
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| Wed 03/30 | Guest Speaker: Greg Papadopoulos (New Enterprise Associates, and formerly CTO of Sun Microsystems) | ||
| Week 9: 04/04, 04/06 Starting a Company |
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| Wed 04/06 | Guest Speaker: Naveen Selvadurai (Co-Founder of Foursquare) | ||
| Mon 04/11 | Guest Speaker: Fred Wilson (Managing Partner, and Co-Founder of Union Square Ventures) | ||
| Week 10: 04/13 Scalable Services |
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| Week 11: 04/18, 04/20 Deploying Services |
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| Week 12: 04/25 Startup Issues |
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| Reading Period | N/A | N/A | |
| Tue 05/10 | Paper #2 Due at 16:59 EST | ||
| Thur 05/12 | Guest Speaker: Meg Whitman (Former President and CEO of eBay) | ||