Palantir Info Session and Tech Talk
Palantir will be presenting information about their company and then performing some technical demos on Wednesday, 11/18 @ 6:30pm in Klaus 1116. Free Wingnuts!
Here’s some more details:
Speaker: Ari Gesher, Senior Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies.
Ari will discuss how Palantir Technologies is revolutionizing the analysis of hard and important problems that face our world today, as well as showing off a live demo of Palantir’s software.
Palantir Technologies is working to radically change how groups analyze information. Founded in 2004 by a handful of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists, Palantir Technologies has doubled in size every year while retaining early-stage values: a startup culture, strong work ethic, and rigorous hiring standards. Palantir currently offer two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Both are platforms for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing the world’s information. They support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Their products are built for real analysis with a focus on security, scalability, ease of use, and collaboration.
