- -: TEDxFruitvale - Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler - Transforming Work into Joy
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Musicians Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler want to put the culture back into agriculture, and — as legions before them have done -- find the joy to make hard labor feel more meaningful. About Edith Gawler and Bennett Konesni, worksong scholars: Edith grew up in Maine as a member of the legenda...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Mariachi Mi Tierra Linda - Conference Finale
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A mariachi performance is a fitting close to a conference about farmworkers: mariachi music evolved from a blend of the Spanish musicians who accompanied the conquistadors to Mexico, native Mexican music, and the music of African slaves brought to Mexico during the early colonial period. Mariac...
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- -: TEDxBlackRockCity - Klaudia Oliver - Why TEDxBlackRockCity?
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Klaudia Oliver is a longtime ambassador of the cultural zeitgeist. Her ability to see what lies beyond the horizon and make it current has given her work as a talent scout and casting director in the entertainment and fashion industries, to publishing a quarterly tourism and culture magazine in ...
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- -: TEDXBlackRockCity - Jim Glaser - Fun, Farce and Purpose: Growing Participatory Culture
October 23, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jim Glaser is an artist, event producer and executive recruiter living in Brooklyn. Following a creative path, Jim has spent the past decade bringing exceptional people together while manifesting many types of creative projects. As the founder of the Kostume Kult arts collective and the non-prof...
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- -: TEDxJacksonHole - Brian Leith - Filming the Invisible People
November 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Brian Leith is an executive producer for the BBC's Natural History Unit in Bristol. His most recent films include Human Planet, the first wildlife series about mankind, and Elsa: The Lion that Changed the World. He has won numerous awards over the years, including a much-prized Best of Festival a...
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- -: TEDxMindStreamAcademy - Patrick House - Pay It Forward
December 1, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Before being chosen for the hit NBC show The Biggest Loser, Patrick didn't realize he had any health issues but found out he had sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and was pre-diabetic. He started his quest on the Biggest Loser Ranch in California in June where he competed and tra...
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- -: Dr. Bror Saxberg - TEDxSF - Demystifying the Human Mind
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Bror Saxberg is a thought leader in the field of learning science, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. As the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan, Inc., Bror is responsible for the research and development of innovative learning strategies, technologies and products across the Company's ...
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- -: David Berkeley - TEDxSF - Musical Performance
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Before going to college at Harvard, David Berkeley spent a year as a volunteer for City Year, one of the models around which Americorps was developed. As a corps member based in San Jose, CA, David spent the year assisting an after school program co-sponsored by the Mexican American Community Se...
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- -: Dale Stephens Michael Ellsberg - TEDxSF - Debating Higher Education
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dale Stephens Stephens brings a unique perspective on the future of education, talent and innovation. At the age of 19, Dale leads UnCollege, the social movement that is changing the notion that college is the only path to success. Through UnCollege, Dale's goal is to empower students to hack...
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- -: Sting Performs 'Desert Rose'
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The one and only Sting stopped by and performed one of his most recognizable songs, "Desert Rose." Check out the awesome performance here.
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Michael Ehrlich: TEDxNJIT - Dr. Michael Ehrlich - Is Your "Million Dollar Idea" a Viable Business Concept?
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)With over 25 years experience as an angel investor and currently working as a professor at NJIT, Ehrlich shares the system he has developed to evaluate the 1000's of funding proposals he has seen. If you do not start with a viable business concept, then you will never be able to develop a succes...
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- -: TEDxNJIT - Arve Hanstveit - What an Angel Investor is Looking for in a Startup
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mr. Hanstveit is sharing some of his perspectives on early stage investing and a set of investment criteria he has developed and employed over the last 15 years.
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- -: Darrell Issa: Racial Profiling of Muslims Can't Become the New "Driving While Black"
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Asked about debate by GOP presidential hopefuls suggesting more stringent screening and security checks on Muslim Americans, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee who has roots in the Middle East, told r...
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- -: Authors@Google: Jon Meacham
January 5, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Newsweek editor Jon Meacham visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House." This event took place on December 2, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous t...
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- -: Authors@Google: Dave Hitz
April 13, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Dave Hitz visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "How to Castrate a Bull." This event took place on March 19, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. Dave Hitz likes to solve fun problems. He didnt set out to be a Silicon Valley icon, a business visionary, or even...
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- -: Authors@Google: Heraldo Muñoz
May 7, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Heraldo Muñoz, Chilean Ambassador to the U.N, to Google's NY office to discuss his book, "The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet". "Ambassador Heraldo Muñoz was Deputy Foreign Minister of Chile in 20002002 and Minister Secretary General in 20022003...
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- -: Green@Google: Vinod Khosla
May 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Vinod Khosla visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss renewable energy and the path to real impact. This event took place on April 22, 2009, as part of the Green@Google series. Vinod Khosla will provide a look at renewable energy - where we are (and some of the exciting technolo...
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- -: Authors@Google: Pierre Thaim
May 15, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed chef and author Pierre Thaim to Google's NY office to dicuss his book, "Yolele! Recipes from the Heart of Senegal". "Chef Pierre discusses his book and travels, which introduce new taste sensations, exotic spins on rice and other familiar ingredients, and food...
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- -: Authors@Google: Alva Noe
May 29, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Alva Noe visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness." This event took place on April 16, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. The notion that consciousness is confined to t...
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- -: Authors@Google: Carole Terwilliger Meyers
August 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Carole Terwilliger Meyers visits Google to present her book "Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California". This event took place on Jul 21, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. Life is a journey. Here to help you escape the bumps and enjoy the ride through Northern Califor...
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- -: Authors@Google: Josh Green
August 4, 2009 (over 14 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Josh Green to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture" "YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first g...
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- -: Authors@Google: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
November 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in ...
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- -: Authors@Google: Brad Matsen
November 25, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Brad Matsen's JACQUES COUSTEAU: The Sea King presents a full and extraordinary portrait of the man who illuminated the oceans to millions of people across the world. Cousteau trained as a pilot in the French Navy, until an accident forced him to recover by swimming to build back his strength. Hi...
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- -: Authors@Google: Kelly O'Connor McNees
April 27, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Kelly O'Connor McNees visits Google's Ann Arbor office to present his book "The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott". This event took place on April 12, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series. Millions of readers across generations have laughed and cried with the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, an...
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- -: @Google & YouTube present A Conversation with Conan O'Brien
May 7, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Conan O'Brien may have been "legally prohibited from being funny on television," but thanks to TBS he'll be back on the air very soon. Conan and Andy Richter stop by Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for a morning of hilarity. This event took place on May 5, 2010. Conan Christopher O'Brie...
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- -: Speakers@Google: Nathan Seidle
June 23, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Nathan Seidle, the CEO of SparkFun Electronics visits Google in Mountain View. SparkFun Electronics was founded in 2003 by Nathan Seidle. Its first products were Olimex printed circuit boards. The name 'SparkFun' came about because one of the founders of SparkFun was testing a development board...
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- -: Filmmakers@Google: Shibani Bathija
June 27, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Renowned Bollywood screenwriter Shibani Bathija visits Mountain View for a screening of "My Name is Khan" followed by Q&A. Shibani is known for notable works like: "Fanaa" and "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna." Her latest film has made headlines across the world. It is currently the highest grossing Bolly...
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- -: Authors@Google: Pamela Slim
August 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The @Google team welcomes Pamela Slim to Google's Mountain View office on August 2, 2010 to discuss her book, "Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur." She is introduced by Jenny Blake. "The creative destruction of the world economy in the last two years has...
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- -: Astronauts@Google: NASA Astronaut José M. Hernández on "Dreaming the Impossible"
October 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The Hispanic Googlers Network in association with the Google Space Program and the AtGoogleTalks team present José M. Hernández who on his inspirational journey of achieving his dream of becoming a NASA astronaut after starting out as a migrant farm worker and applying to NASA for 12 years! He al...
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- -: Photographers@Google: Rick Sammon
October 30, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Join Rick Sammon for thoughts and musings on lighting, HDR, and his life as a Canon "Painter of Light." How to capture and control light to make the best digital photographs. Light is the essence of photography. Follow master photographer Rick Sammon at dawn in Kenya or nighttime in Miami as he ...
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- -: Authors@Google: Jonathan Safran Foer
November 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Celebrated novelist Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, 2005, etc.) examines the ethics and practical realities of eating things with faces. The book is a surprising but characteristically brilliant memoir-investigation, boasting an exhaustively-argued account of one man's decade-long stru...
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- -: Authors@Google: Parag Khanna
March 22, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Parag Khanna spoke to Googlers in Mountain View, California on January 20, 2011 about his latest book How to Run The World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. About the book: "Adventurer-scholar Parag Khanna's How to Run the World (Random House) is a bold account of our current global c...
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- -: Filmmakers@Google: Christy Turlington Burns
March 25, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Christy Turlington Burns joined Googlers on March 17, 2011 to discuss her career, maternal health advocacy work, and new movie "No Woman, No Cry." With more than twenty-five years at the forefront of the fashion industry, having graced every magazine cover from Vogue to Time, Christy Turlington ...
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- -: Authors@Google: T.C. Boyle
April 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Warning: This talk contains mature language. When the Killing's Done is my thirteenth novel, published by Viking in February of 2011. The novel takes up some of the environmental themes of earlier novels such as A Friend of the Earth and The Tortilla Curtain,and stories like 'Carnal Knowledge,'...
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- -: Leading@Google: Mona Caron on Harnessing the Creative Power of Art to Build Social Networks
May 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Leading@Google presents Mona Caron, April 22, 2011 Mona Caron has a well established career as an accomplished artist and illustrator. In 1998 the creation of her first public artwork, the the 6000 square-foot Duboce Bikeway mural, marked the unexpected beginning of a now decade-long adventure i...
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- -: Authors@Google: Marc Kaufman
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Marc Kaufman visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "FIRST CONTACT: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth". This event took place on May 27, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series. In his riveting, game-changing book FIRST CONTACT: Scientific Breakthrou...
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- -: Chefs@Google: Mark Bello
September 6, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mark Bello, founder of Pizza a Casa Pizza School, is a tour-de-force of creativity and energy, sharing his knowledge and love of pizza with unpretentious ease. Born in NYC and raised on the famous thin crust pizzas indigenous to his NY and NJ upbringing, his passion for pizza was put to the test...
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- -: Jonah Hill LiveStream Callout video
September 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)@Google Talks is hosting Jonah Hill in conversation on September 16th, at 4pm Pacific. Submit your questions live, until the end of the day on Thursday, September 15th. You can view the questions and add your own here: http://www.youtube.com/atgoogletalks
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- -: Authors@Google: Michael Ellsberg
September 26, 2011 (over 12 years ago)"The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late " Get Rich Investing in Your Own Human Capital The richest billionaire executive on the planet and the lowest-status minimum-wage worker have at least one thing in common when it comes to work: they both have 24 hours...
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- -: Call for Questions: Mark Hoppus & Tom DeLonge Google+ Conversation
September 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Have a question for Blink-182's Mark Hoppus and Tom Delonge? Go to youtube.com/atgoogletalks to submit question! They'll be answering your questions on Wednesday, October 5th @ 3PM PST. Google+ and @Google Talks will be hosting the conversation live. Please visit youtube.com/atgoogletalks to sub...
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- -: Musicians@Google: Ra Ra Riot
September 29, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Ra Ra Riot stopped by the Google New York office to play at their happy hour on August 18th, 2011. Ra Ra Riot is an American indie rock band from Syracuse, New York, consisting of vocalist Wes Miles, bassist Mathieu Santos, guitarist Milo Bonacci, cellist Alexandra Lawn, violinist Rebecca Zeller...
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- -: Authors@Google: Cathy Davidson
November 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When Cathy Davidson and Duke University advocated giving free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said the university was wasting their money. Yet when students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for the music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light—as...
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- -: Jeannie's Having Fun at Ellen's Season Premiere Show!
October 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)We're just hours away from taping Ellen's Season Premiere show! The stage crew is testing the sound equipment, so Jeannie decided to have a little fun!
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- -: Ellen Gets an Official Letter from Australia
October 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The video from Australia wasn't the only part of the campaign to get Ellen Down Under. The three DJs also presented her with an official letter requesting that she bring her show to Australia...
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- -: Andy Can't Hold Back
October 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)After assisting Howie Mandel's magical entrance, Andy couldn't resist the urge to dance. He had quite the moves!
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- -: Twister with a Twist
October 20, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Today Ellen featured another Hasbro game: Twister Hoopla! Her audience members found themselves in an interesting position during this hilarious game. You can start your own family game night with...
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- -: Ellen Eyes the Teen Choice Award Trophies
October 21, 2010 (over 13 years ago)While at the Teen Choice Awards, Ellen saw some of the surfboard trophies backstage. She had some interesting facts for them just for you!
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- -: Diane Sawyer is Traveling the World!
October 26, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Today, Diane Sawyer stopped by to chat with Ellen about hosting "ABC World News." She shared how quickly she can get ready to travel, and what she thinks her husband does when she leaves!
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- -: Chris Colfer's Funny Message to Ellen
November 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)The hilarious Chris Colfer was so excited to be back, he sent out a special tweet, which started an interesting exchange. He explains it in this backstage video.
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- -: Web Exclusive: Ellen Rides Around for Rehearsal
December 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)During today's toy-testing segment, Ellen and Alex had fun racing around the stage. Ellen had a chance to try it during rehearsal -- check out what she did!
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- -: Jeannie Dances with the Law!
December 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)For the 12 Days of Giveaways fakeout, it seemed like Jeannie got into legal trouble. Fortunately, it was just a joke, so Jeannie and her arresting officer joined in on the 12 Days dancing! Don't forget to enter to win today's amazing gifts! Visit http://ellen.warnerbros.com/12days/
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- -: Ellen Challenges Oprah!
January 21, 2011 (over 13 years ago)This weekend, Ellen is watching football games to see who is going to the Super Bowl. She decided to make it a little more interesting and challenged Oprah to a bet!
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- -: Mindy Has More Reality Reviews!
May 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ellen asked her hilarious housekeeper, Mindy, to review two brand new reality shows. Mindy's review went in a very interesting direction!
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- -: Kym Douglas Drives Ellen to Drink
August 10, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Everyone's favorite household beauty specialist is back with some very interesting theories about what makes women more beautiful. She even brought some props to help demonstrate, but Ellen seemed more interested in the bottle of tequila than the coffee grinds.
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- -: Rob Kardashian Talks Obama
October 24, 2011 (over 12 years ago)While he was here, Rob Kardashian talked about the recent story that President Obama doesn't want his kids watching "Keeping Up with the Kardashians." He had some very interesting things to say about the President and his comments. Take a look.
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- -: KCRW Podcasting and Mobilcasting
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 13, 2006 Jason Georges http://www.kcrw.com ABSTRACT Jason Georges from the local public radio station will be in the Santa Monica office to talk about their innovations with podcasting and other details on how KCRW has become a huge presence in the online radio stati...
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- -: The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 13, 2006 Anthony Towns ABSTRACT Current Debian Project Leader, former Release Manager and all round good guy, Anthony "aj" Towns will give an in depth look at the ideas and code that hold Debian's "testing" suite together, from its initial genesis, through basic protot...
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- -: Agile Testing
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December 9, 2005 Elisabeth Hendrickson ABSTRACT As more teams are adopting Agile practices such as XP and Scrum, software testing teams are being asked to become "Agile" as well. But what does that mean? Is the Agile label yet another buzzword? Or could it be Agile practices a...
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- -: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 27, 2006 Credits: Speaker:Gwen Hize, Speaker:Derek Slater
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- -: Distributed Testing with SmartFrog
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 7th, 2006 Presenters: Julio Guijarro & Steve Loughran Credits: Presenter:Julio Guijarro, Presenter:Steve Loughran
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- -: Key Phrase Indexing With Controlled Vocabularies
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks June 21, 2006 Olena Medelyan is a grad student who has just started on a Google-funded PhD scholarship, looking at keyphrase extraction using lexical and linguistic techniques. ABSTRACT Keyphrases are widely used in information retrieval as a brief but precise summary of docume...
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- -: How To Recruit, Motivate, and Energize Superior Test...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 9, 2005 Jeff Feldstein ABSTRACT The expectations today are for increasingly high-quality software, requiring more sophisticated automation in testing. Test and QA teams must work more closely with development to ensure that this sophisticated automation is possible. T...
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- -: Testing mobile handsets with Fitnesse
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 8th, 2006 Presenters: Uffe Koch & Mark Boxall Credits: Presenter:Uffe Koch, Presenter:Mark Boxall
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- -: The Science and Art of User Experience at Google
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks June 7, 2006 Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google's user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google's many products. A founding member of Google's UI team, Jen has also led t...
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- -: Selenium: The in-browser acceptance testing tool
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 8th, 2006 Presenter: Jason Huggins Credits: Presenter:Jason Huggins
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- -: AutoTest: Push-button testing using contracts
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 7th, 2006 Presenter: Andreas Leitner Credits: Presenter:Andreas Leitner
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- -: Advanced Topics In Programming Languages: Closures For Java
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 17, 2007 ABSTRACT We propose to add Closures to the Java Programming Language. Closures simplify the use of APIs that rely on anonymous class instances, such as the concurrency APIs and callbacks. More importantly, closures support control abstractions, which are APIs ...
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- -: Java Posse Episode 100 (Live Special)
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 22, 2007 ABSTRACT The JavaPosse (http://javaposse.com) is a weekly podcast covering various topics around the Java programming language, including news, interviews and general Java community rumors and happenings. We will be hosting our 100th episode live here at Googl...
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- -: Multifractals: The scalability of random multiplicative...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 15, 2007 ABSTRACT Many interesting data are of sufficient size and complexity that they can only be studied statistically. Broad distributions, such as those produced by a multiplicative process, do not scale according to conventional laws. For these non-Gaussian distribut...
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- -: PhotoSketch: A Photo-Centric 3D Modeling Tool
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 26, 2007 ABSTRACT Geospatial navigation tools such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are exceedingly popular applications for exploring massive datasets. Their explosive growth provides impetus for photorealistic 3D modeling of urban scenes. Although laser range...
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- -: What Is Your Provenance?
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 21, 2007 ABSTRACT Who you are matters, but maybe less than you think. Dunbar and his critics have pointed out only 150 people matter at most to anyone, at any point. Yet we focus on people all the time: Google makes use of this temporary focus in the pagerank algorithm. S...
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- -: On Sequence Kernels for SVM classification of sets of...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April 10, 2007 ABSTRACT Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become one of the most popular tools for discriminative classification of static data. However, research in SVM classification of dynamic (continuous) data has gained in interest only recently. In this presentation, I...
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- -: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: The Java Memory...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 21, 2007 ABSTRACT This talk describes the Java Memory Model and how it affects the ways concurrent software should be written. Recent changes to the memory model, which were incorporated into JDK 5, redefined the semantics of threads, synchronization, volatile variables,...
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- -: Runtimes, Robots, and Clusters
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 29, 2007 ABSTRACT We want powerful, linguistic abstractions for concurrent and parallel control of computational devices, be they small or big. As a step towards this, we've been developing the Transterpreter[1], a small (8KB), portable VM for a growing family of program...
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- -: The North Korean Human Rights Crisis
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 29, 2007 ABSTRACT North Korea today is home to a network of several dozen concentration camps rivaling those of Auschwitz and Dachau of days past, hosting over 250,000 political prisoners and their families. North Korea is a prison state- there are no freedoms of religion...
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- -: WILT: taking cancer seriously enough to really cure it
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 29, 2007 ABSTRACT The intrinsic genetic instability of cancer cells makes age-related cancers harder to postpone or treat than any other aspect of aging. Any therapy that a cancer can resist by activating or inactivating specific genes is unlikely to succeed long-term, be...
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- -: Amigo: Proximity-based Authentication of Mobile Devices
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 12, 2007 ABSTRACT Secure and spontaneous communication between wireless devices that come within close proximity of each other, but lack a pre-existing trust relationship -- devices that are previously unknown to each other -- is an important component of many future perv...
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- -: Seattle Conference on Scalability: Abstractions for...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 ABSTRACT 2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets Jeff Dean, Google, Inc. Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet, but it also poses som...
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- -: Seattle Conference on Scalability: Lessons In Building...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 ABSTRACT 2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability: Lessons In Building Scalable Systems Speaker: Reza Behforooz Since launching Google Talk in the summer of 2005, we have integrated the service with two large existing products: Gmail and orkut. Each of thes...
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- -: HTML forms Next Generation
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 5, 2007 ABSTRACT Web-based replacements for spreadsheets and simple forms By Dave Raggett, W3C Fellow and Principal Researcher at Volantis Systems. The ability to collect data from users and to submit it to servers has become a very important part of the Web. Forms are...
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- -: End User Software Engineering
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April 27, 2007 ABSTRACT In this talk, we will consider what happens when we add to end-user programming environments consideration of the software lifecycle beyond the "coding" phase. Considering other phases is necessary, because there is ample evidence that the programs end ...
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- -: Model-Based Testing: Black or White?
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 27, 2007 ABSTRACT Model-based testing can help to reduce the cost of testing and increase its effectiveness. Instead of designing test cases by hand, model-based testing allows a test engineer to automatically generate test cases from a model of the system under test. ...
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- -: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Transactional...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 14, 2007 ABSTRACT Concurrent programming is increasingly important and existing programming models are inadequate for this challenge. Transactional memory is the most promising and popular research direction to address these concerns. Software transactional memory is too ...
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- -: TSCclock: a low cost, robust, accurate software clock for...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 24, 2007 ABSTRACT Accurate software clocks are essential for many aspects of networking, including both passive and active network measurement, real-time applications, and more generally, for tight distributed computation and service delivery. Best effort solutions using ...
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- -: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: Java Puzzlers,...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 23, 2007 ABSTRACT Java Puzzlers, Episode VI: The Phantom-Reference Menace/Attack of the Clone/Revenge of the Shift. Josh Bloch and special guest star Bill Pugh present yet another installment in the continuing saga of Java Puzzlers, consisting of eight more programming pu...
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- -: Testing Metro Wifi
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google engEDU September 8th, 2006 Presenter: Karl Garcia Credits: Presenter:Karl Garcia
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- -: Scaling Laws In Biology And Other Complex Systems
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech talks August 1, 2007 ABSTRACT Life is very likely the most complex phenomenon in the Universe manifesting an extraordinary diversity of form and function over an enormous range. Yet, many of its most fundamental and complex attributes scale with size in a surprisingly simple fashion...
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- -: Matt Ruff With Bad Monkeys
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 19, 2007 ABSTRACT Matt Ruff With Bad Monkeys. Matt reads sections of a very interesting book written by a woman that is involved in a group that wipes out men that don't deserve to live. Credits: Speaker:Matt Ruff
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- -: The Semantic Desktop: The Intimate Supplement to Memory
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 28, 2007 ABSTRACT A Semantic Desktop is a means to manage all personal information across application borders based on Semantic Web standards. It acts as an extended personal memory assisting users to file, relate, share, and access all digital information like docum...
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- -: Internet Scale Identity, Collaboration, and Higher Education
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September, 19 2007 ABSTRACT Two of the most active areas of development on the Internet are the rise of Internet identity, in several approaches, and the bloom of collaboration tools such as wikis, on-line conferencing, Web 2.0 tools, and social nets. Internet scale identity i...
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- -: Gears and the Mashup Problem
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September, 20 2007 ABSTRACT Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. Unfortunately, the browser's security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Since virt...
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- -: Trondheim Wireless Broadband Commons
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks February 27, 2006 Arne Sølvberg ABSTRACT The talk presents a full scale field laboratory for mobile information services. The laboratory comprises wireless broadband covering a substantial part of downtown Trondheim, and is to be integrated with the wireless broadband network o...
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- -: Becoming a Software Testing Expert
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks June 13, 2006 James Bach I work with project teams and individual engineers to help them plan SQA, change control, and testing processes that allow them to understand and control the risks of product failure. Most of my experience is with market-driven Silicon Valley software co...
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- -: Team Server / Ajax Development with IntelliJ IDEA
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks May 15, 2006 Dmitry Jemerov Mike Aizatsky ABSTRACT The first presentation is completely dedicated to our new product Team Server, which has to bring to the whole team the same level of productivity as IDEA does for the individual developer. We will talk about continuous integra...
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- -: Predicting bugs in code changes using SCM information
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks March 8, 2006 Jim whitehead Jim Whitehead is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has recently been developing a new degree program on computer gaming, the BS in Computer Game Engineering. Jim received his PhD in Information ...
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- -: Economies of Focus: How Little Guys Compete in Big Spaces
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 2, 2007 ABSTRACT BitPusher is a small company that provides outsourced web operations and hosting for customer web applications. CEO Daniel Lieberman will discuss the philosophies, techniques and compromises that allow a very small team to deploy new, diverse applicatio...
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- -: Photographic Tech EDU Day 26: Image quality testing and...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 15, 2007 ABSTRACT # useful properties of light and image formation # theory and techniques of photographic optics and image capture # theory of colorimetry and techniques of color reproduction # where and how photography is being used in Google products and projects # w...
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- -: GeoServer and Architectures of Participation for...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks August 23, 2006 Chris Holmes ABSTRACT This talk will introduce GeoServer, an open source server to publish and edit geospatial data using open standards with Google Earth, Google Maps, and more. The talk will highlight the recent the work done to interoperate with Earth and Map...
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- -: Modeling Application Usage Visually
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks April 24, 2006 Scott Barber Scott Barber is the CTO of PerfTestPlus, Inc. and Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR). Scott's particular specialties are testing and analyzing performance for complex systems, developing customized testing methodologies, ...
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- -: Mercurial Project
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks June 19, 2006 Bryan O'Sullivan is a Senior Principal Engineer at QLogic, Inc, where he works on HPC clustering and compiler technologies. He likes to write software tools that help other engineers, and to build interesting distributed systems. He is an enthusiastic rock climber ...
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