Qconn

The Art of Information Refinery at Cue

Location: 
Grand Ballroom - Salon A/B
Abstract: 

With the advent of cloud computing, humans are creating an immense amount of personal information, yet very little of it is being used to personalize anything we do. Cue is a free service that tries to solve this problem by analyzing all of your cloud content (email, contacts, calendar, etc) to predict what you'll need next in your day. This talk will cover the Redis-powered processing pipeline Cue operates in order to churn raw data into useful information. We'll outline the methodologies we use to extract and understand things like relative times, email signatures, definitive phone numbers ("call me at...") and more. We'll also describe how we identify email patterns (flight confirmations, hotel reservations, shipping notifications), automatically turn them in to structured information and store them using our custom read-heavy Lucene clusters.

Daniel Gross's picture
Daniel Gross is CEO and co-founder of Cue. In 2009, Daniel became the youngest founder accepted by the incubator program Y Combinator. In 2010, he co-founded Cue, a free service that helps you know what's next in your day. Daniel continues to oversee the product vision and all aspects of Cue's development. Growing up, Daniel's home was filled with books of all varieties, supplied by his father who was a professor of computer science. Daniel was an avid reader and read his first book about programming at age 8. He started creating his own games and websites, including an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program. Soon after, Daniel began making lists of ideas and products he wanted to build. He read everything he could about programming and even got into occasional trouble for skipping class Soon after, Daniel began making lists of ideas and products he wanted to build. He read everything he could about programming and even got into occasional trouble for skipping class to stay home and work on his latest project. He dreamed of starting his own company one day to solve big problems and was inspired by his grandfathers who were both successful entrepreneurs in New York. When his father told him about Y Combinator, he applied immediately, packed a single suitcase, and flew from Jerusalem to San Francisco to pursue his dream of starting a company. Daniel has been working tirelessly ever since to build Cue into a service that can help millions of people get the most out of their days. Together with his cofounder Robby Walker, Daniel oversees the product vision at Cue and is involved in virtually every aspect of its development. e is uncompromising in his devotion to quality and can often be seen working well past typical work hours and into many late nights and early mornings. Two years after arriving, his apartment in San Francisco contains only a bed, a desk, a few books, and the suitcase full of clothes he packed for his original flight.