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  To: ny@lists.pm.org 
  From: James E Keenan  
  Subject: perlsemny + more 
  Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:36:11 -0500 
  
  Rumor has it that if we finish up early enough tomorrow night, we 
  will adjourn to a yet-to-be-disclosed location for Yuletide Cheer. 
  
  Perl Seminar New York 
  Tuesday Dec 15 2009 
  6:15 - 8:15 pm 
  NYPC User Group 
  481 8th Ave (Ramada New Yorker Hotel, West 34 St) 
  Suite 550 
  
  Featured Presentation:  Pratik Dave:  "Map/Reduce" 
  
  On December 15 we look forward to Pratik Dave's first presentation at 
  Perl Seminar NY.  Pratik has provided this description of his talk: 
  
  "Map/Reduce is a simple technique for performing calculations on 
  arbitrarily sized (read: enormous) data-sets by applying the 
  functional programming 'map' and 'reduce' primitives in parallel 
  across  smaller and smaller subsets of the data. Created based on the 
  functionality discussed in a seminal paper on the topic published by 
  Google engineers (http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html), 
  an open source project named Apache Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/ 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop) provides 
  the scaffolding to perform map-reduce calculations on your commodity 
  hardware." 
  
  "In this talk I'll introduce the map/reduce concept, work 
  through its application to algorithms you probably perform daily, and 
  demonstrate how to write a simple (yet powerful) Hadoop job using 
  Perl." 
  
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 Jay Sulzberger  
 Corresponding Secretary LXNY 
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. 
 http://www.lxny.org 
  
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