Here are a number of presentations I have given over the years. I have sometimes found presentations of others' work quite useful, and I hope to return the favor by placing mine here. DISCLAIMER: They come with no support or guarantee of validity but hopefully will be useful for educational purposes only. None of these were done while I was employed by any company nor are they related to any work I did while employed.

A presentation on how to compute Google's PageRank Algorithm (by Brin and Page) using the MapReduce framework (I used hadoop). PageRank for MapReduce

A presentation on the original Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks by Patterson, Gibson and Katz (1988).

A presentation on Pictorial Structures for Object Recognition discussing the paper: P. F. Felzenszwalb and D. P. Huttenlocher. Pictorial structures for object recognition. IJCV, 2003.

A presentation on Viola and Jones's pedestrian detector Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance discussing the paper: Viola and Jones, Detecting pedestrians using patterns of motion and appearance, ICCV 2003.

A computational biology course project I did on detecting genes using Conditional Random Fields Predicting Genes Using Conditional Random Fields.