- -: "EFF Confidential!"
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks February 9, 2006 Danny O'Brien and Jason Schultz Danny O'Brien Danny O'Brien is the Activism Coordinator for the EFF. His job is to help EFF's membership in making their voice heard: in government and regulatory circles, in the marketplace, and with the wider public. Jason Schu...
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- -: Using Fit: An Open-Source Testing Framework
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks February 9, 2006 Rick Mugridge Rick Mugridge is the lead author of the first book on storytests: "Fit for Developing Software". He has developed and is evolving FitLibrary to better support storytest driven development. He is a leading thinker and inventor in this area, and con...
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- -: Near-optimal Monitoring of Online Data Sources
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks July 27, 2006 Ryan Peterson ABSTRACT Crawling the Web for interesting and relevant changes has become increasingly difficult due to the abundance of frequently changing information. Common techniques for solving such problems make use of heuristics, which do not provide perform...
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- -: People to People Lending with Prosper
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks June 28,2006 Karen Appleton Andrew Martinez-Fonts ABSTRACT Prosper is America's first people-to-people lending marketplace, and was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone. The way Prosper works is intuitive to people who have used...
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- -: Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII: Hierarchial Dirichlet...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) ABSTRACT A Dirichlet process (DP) is a random probability measure that concentrates on discrete measures. It has interesting and well-explored connections to various topics in combinatorics and probabili...
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- -: Achievable Futures
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks April 26, 2006 James Lyndsay James Lyndsay is actively involved in the international software testing community. He received 'Best Paper' awards at the largest software testing conferences in both the US and Europe in 2002, and gave keynote talks at AsiaSTAR and STAREast in 2003...
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- -: Proving Our Worth: Quantifying the Value of Testing
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks August 10, 2006 Lee Copeland has over thirty years experience as an information systems professional. He has held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software ...
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- -: Glassbox: Automated Troubleshooting
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 25, 2006 Ron Bodkin is the leader of the Glassbox project, and spearheads its efforts to revolutionize enterprise troubleshooting by simplifying it and bringing it into the open source technology stack. Dave Pickering leads engineering for Glassbox, and in a prior lif...
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- -: Similarity Search: A Web Perspective
October 24, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October, 18 2007 ABSTRACT Similarity search is the problem of preprocessing a database of N objects in such a way that given a query object, one can effectively determine its nearest neighbors in database. "Geometric near-neighbor access tree" data structure, an earl...
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- -: (re-)Organizing and (non-)transactions
October 25, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October, 18 2007 ABSTRACT The world of open source software (OSS) is a social system, and all such socialities are based on particular assumptions. The everyday life of OSS has been explained in terms of a gift-economy, a complex system based on the cyclic exchange of gifts an...
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- -: XWiki: the french open source cousin of JotSpot
October 26, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October, 10 2007 ABSTRACT XWiki is a second generation open source Wiki - see http://xwiki.org We present the XWiki development platform for building collaborative web applications, talk about future fun stuff like P2P replication, offline Wikis, multi-syntax wiki, GWT Wysiwy...
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- -: Building Industrial Strength Performance Tools
November 2, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October, 26 2007 ABSTRACT In this talk we will discuss the issues involved in building industrial-strength performance tools. We first discuss the requirements for such tools, and then the issues and tradeoffs involved in compiling the targets for the tools. We then discuss da...
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- -: "Drill down into your Code - Software Quality via Code Queries in SemmleCode"
November 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November, 5 2007 ABSTRACT Need a precision drill to unearth forgotten parts of your code base? Like to enforce coding conventions for clients of your API? Want to monitor code quality with metrics? Wish to implement a quality gate before check-ins that stops common bug patter...
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- -: Google Website Optimizer: Content Testing for Everyone
November 22, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks October, 31 2007 Google Website Optimizer: Content Testing for Everyone Speaker: Gretta Cook Speaker: Victor Chudnovsky
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- -: Symbolic Execution and Model Checking for Testing
November 22, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November, 16 2007 This talk describes techniques that use model checking and symbolic execution for test input generation. Abstract state matching is used to avoid generation of redundant inputs. The techniques handle complex data structures, arrays, as well as multithreading, ...
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- -: Structured Streams: A New Transport Abstraction
December 4, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November, 27 2007 Internet applications currently have a choice between stream and datagram transport abstractions. Datagrams efficiently support small transactions and streams are suited for long-running conversations, but neither abstraction adequately supports applications l...
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- -: Object Capabilities for Security
December 4, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November, 30 2007 ABSTRACT Existing systems often do a poor job of meeting the principle of least privilege. I will discuss how object capability systems and language-based methods can help address this shortcoming. In language-based object capability systems, an object refere...
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- -: Electricity use and efficiency of servers and data centers: A review of recen...
December 5, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 4 2007 The Internet economy depends on a reliable computing infrastructure. While earlier reports of information technology using vast amounts all electricity were grossly exaggerated, these facilities still use electricity, and this use is growing rapidly. Recent an...
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- -: Google Maps in Uganda
December 6, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 5 2007 Colonial rule left many scars on Africa and with tools like Google maps those of the cartographers can now be clearly viewed from cyberspace. With ubiquitous satellite coverage, the random nature of African borders is more evident than ever. Nations initially ...
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- -: Computerized Voting Machines: Who is Counting your Vote?
December 11, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 7 2007 As a result of Florida 2000, some people concluded that paper ballots simply couldn't be counted, even though businesses, banks, racetracks, lottery systems, and other entities in our society count and deal with paper all the time. Instead, paperless computeri...
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- -: A Preview of Alice 3.0, Introductory Programming in 3D
December 13, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 ABSTRACT The mission of the Alice project is to increase and sustain the pipeline of computer science graduates, essential to the growth of technology in a global economy. Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment for building animations in the form ...
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- -: Getting C++ Threads Right
December 14, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 ABSTRACT The advent of multicore processors has generated profound debate on the merits of writing parallel programs with threads and locks. Nonetheless, for many application domains, this remains the standard paradigm for writing parallel programs, and at th...
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- -: A Search Engine Architecture Based on Collection Selection
January 4, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December, 19 2007 ABSTRACT We present a distributed architecture for a Web search engine, based on the concept of collection selection. We introduce a novel approach to partition the collection of documents, able to greatly improve the effectiveness of standard collection sele...
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- -: Systematic Testing of Software with Structurally Complex Inputs
January 8, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 7 2008 ABSTRACT Modern software pervasively uses structurally complex data, for example web-traversal code operates on graphs that encode web pages, and IDEs manipulate program representations such as abstract syntax trees. The standard approach to generating test su...
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- -: ScienceFoo Campers: JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments)
January 17, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 15 2008 ABSTRACT JoVE: an Open-access library of experimental videos to revolutionize biomedical research and scientific publishing. Biomedical research has reached a level of complexity that is matched only by the complexity of the living species under investigation...
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- -: MonetDB/X100: a (very) fast column-store
January 23, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 15 2008 ABSTRACT MonetDB/X100 is a second-generation column-store prototyped at CWI, targeted at analysis-heavy data management tasks such as data warehousing and information retrieval. In this overview talk I will outline the research challenges, novel techniques and...
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- -: Practical Quantum Cryptography and Possible Attacks
January 26, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 24 2008 ABSTRACT Quantum cryptography is actually about secure distribution of an encryption key between two parties. In this talk I give an introduction to practical quantum cryptography. I will describe the technical details of a few implementations, how the securit...
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- -: An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
January 26, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libra...
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- -: The Lively Kernel
January 26, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 24 2008 ABSTRACT The Sun Labs Lively Kernel is a new approach to web programming. It provides a complete platform for web applications, including dynamic graphics, network access, and development tools, and requires nothing more than available web browsers. We call th...
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- -: Coaching Series: Leading from Strength: Making a Difference
February 2, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 29 2008 ABSTRACT By identifying and further developing our unique talents and character strengths, we contribute more effectively and enjoy the process. This talk will draw on findings from positive psychology, brain science, and resilience research to describe practi...
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- -: Coaching Series: Accomplishing More By Doing Less
February 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January, 31 2008 ABSTRACT Being creative and successful in business and your personal lives requires that you be responsive and flexible as you move beyond your comfort zones. Though it may seem paradoxical, all real change and creativity begins by facing and understanding t...
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- -: Speech recognition and retrieval using unsupervised sub-word language models
February 9, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks February, 8 2008 ABSTRACT Unsupervised morpheme analysis and language models developed at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) open interesting new views on large vocabulary speech recognition, information retrieval and machine translation. This approach learns suitable su...
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- -: The OpenOnload User-level Network Stack
February 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks February, 7 2008 ABSTRACT The architecture of conventional networked systems has remained largely constant for many years now. However, some specialised application domains have adopted alternative architectures. For example, the HPC community uses message passing libraries w...
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- -: Automated Testing Patterns and Smells
March 8, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March, 6 2008 ABSTRACT The extensive use of automated testing has been a breakthrough practice in improving the quality of software produced by developers. By now, many companies have experimented with the use of automated functional tests and unit tests. Those that have had ...
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- -: CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
March 13, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March, 3 2008 ABSTRACT Introduction Project mission statement, history, internal organization, partners, CGAL in numbers. What's in CGAL A survey on available data structures and algorithms, as well as examples how and by whom they are used. Topics include Triangulations, Vo...
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- -: Adaptive Algorithms for Online Optimization
March 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March, 14 2008 ABSTRACT The online learning framework captures a wide variety of learning problems. The setting is as follows - in each round, we have to choose a point from some fixed convex domain. Then, we are presented a convex loss function, according to which we incur a ...
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- -: Movie/Script: Alignment and Parsing of Video and Text Transcription
March 27, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March, 26 2008 ABSTRACT Timothee Cour - Research Scientist Movies and TV are a rich source of highly diverse and complex video of people, objects, actions and locales "in the wild". Harvesting automatically labeled sequences of actions from video would enable creation of lar...
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- -: Viewfinder: How to Seamlessly "Flickrize" Google Earth / a collaboration betw...
April 15, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 14 2008 ABSTRACT "Viewfinder" is a novel method for users to spatially situate, or "find the pose," of their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth. Our objective is to p...
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- -: Turing's Cathedral
April 18, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 9 2008 ABSTRACT New Light on the Dawn of Digital Computing, 1945-1958 The digital universe consists of two kinds of bits: differences in space and differences in time. Digital computers translate between these two forms of information--structure and sequence--accordin...
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- -: The Past Present and Future of Digital Memories
April 29, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Recent technical developments have inspired an interest in 'digital memories': repositories for capturing our entire personal history of personal and work related information that will substitute for our fragile organic memories. I will first review the...
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- -: Supporting Scalable Online Statistical Processing
April 29, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Christopher Jermaine - RESEARCH SCIENTIST Query processing for analytic, statistical, and exploratory database queries has been an active area of database research and development for nearly two decades. Many experts now consider this problem to be "so...
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- -: How Ant Colonies Get Things Done
May 2, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Ant colonies operate without central control; there is no one in charge and no ant directs the behavior of others. Colonies perform many tasks including foraging, nest construction, and care of the young. Task allocation is the process that adjusts the ...
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- -: BORN AND RAISED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP
May 14, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May, 12 2008 ABSTRACT Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp. Shin was born on Nov. 19, 1982 and called the camp home until 2005. While at the camp, he endured daily beatings, torture, starvation-level...
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- -: URIPlay
May 14, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April, 3 2008 ABSTRACT The team from MetaBroadcast Ltd describe their work on URIPlay (uriplay.org). Radio and TV were designed to be simple, to require minimum involvement. Our grandparents sometimes chose to change channel, but this was strictly optional. Today's technolog...
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- -: Natural Security (A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World)
May 31, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May, 29 2008 ABSTRACT Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from natu...
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- -: Impulse-based ultra-wide-band (UWB) radio systems and applications
June 4, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 22, 2008 ABSTRACT The old idea of impulse radio dates back to Marconi's first wireless transmissions using sparks. Unlike most wireless today, impulse radio transmissions are extremely wideband signals. The recently FCC- released frequency band from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz is th...
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- -: Incremental State-Space Exploration for Programs with Dynamically Allocated Data
June 6, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 4 2008 ABSTRACT We present a novel technique that speeds up state-space exploration (SSE) for evolving programs with dynamically allocated data. SSE is the essence of explicit-state model checking and an increasingly popular method for automating test generation. Tradit...
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- -: Searching and Mining Open Source Code from the Web
June 6, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 4 2008 ABSTRACT Various data mining techniques have been applied to mine source code repositories. However, relying only on one or several local source code repositories may not provide sufficient, relevant data samples (e.g., usage of a certain API call) for mining tas...
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- -: Max-margin training and inference on structured models for information extrac...
June 7, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 2 2008 ABSTRACT Feature-based structured models provide a flexible and elegant framework for various information extraction (IE) tasks. These include label sequences for traditional IE, segmentation models for entity-level extractions, and skip chain models for collecti...
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- -: Gaming For Freedom
June 10, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 6, 2008 ABSTRACT Tim, Founder of the Thousand Parsec project, will explore the universe of Free and Open Source computer games, drawing on his personal experience as a case study for successfully building and contributing to an Open Source game project. Many areas will be...
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- -: Spam, Phishing, and Online Scams: A View from the Network-Level
June 17, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 13 2008 ABSTRACT The Internet is overrun with spam: Recent estimates suggest that spam constitutes about 95% of all email traffic. Beyond simply being a nuisance, spam exhausts network resources and can also serve as a vector for other types of attacks, including phishin...
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- -: 2 girls + 7 months + 17 countries + more than 200 encounters = the Energy Wor...
June 17, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 13 2008 ABSTRACT In January 2007, two young engineers set off to understand how, from Norway to Brazil, from Zambia to Pakistan, entrepreneurs, inventors and civil servants are striving to address the challenges that global warming and the constrained resources of fossil...
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- -: VCode and VData: Illustrating a new Framework for Supporting the Video Annota...
June 21, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June, 19 2008 ABSTRACT Digital tools for annotation of video have the promise to provide immense value to researchers in disciplines ranging from psychology to computer science to ethnography. With the traditional methods for annotation being cumbersome, time-consuming, and fr...
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- -: New Media Mavericks: Will The Revolution Be Spidered?
June 21, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 10, 2008 ABSTRACT The disruptive technology of new media is far more accessible than most realize. The impact of new media is far more impressive than most report. The mavericks of new media are slowly taking over - quietly, but with a shadow that dramatically changes the...
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- -: Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Wiring Hacker Synapses
July 9, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex Wiring Hacker Synapses: Collaborative Coding and Team Tooling in Eclipse by Scott Lewis, Composent & Mustafa K. Isik ECF is a communication framework and an increasing set of integrated tools. ECF provides APIs useful for t...
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- -: "Trading on the female body: exploitation of women for eggs"
July 15, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 14, 2008 ABSTRACT One quick Google search on "egg donation" will demonstrate how prevalent the ads are to "make dreams come true" or "help create a miracle". Women on Ivy League campuses across America and poor women from around the world are being heavily recruited to "...
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- -: Emacs Org-mode - a system for note-taking and project planning
July 16, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 15, 2008 ABSTRACT Org-mode is a large Emacs sub-systems that has been integrated into Emacs with the version 22.1 release. From it original intend, Org-mode is a system for structured note-taking and project planning. It uses strictly plain text files, making it a tru...
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- -: The Borgmann Project: Listing all the Words in English
August 15, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 13, 2008 ABSTRACT Contrary to popular belief, current unabridged dictionaries contain only a small fraction of all the words in English. This is primarily because it costs money for a publisher to include a word in a dictionary, and therefore the publisher includes only...
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- -: The LabelMe dataset and its applications to scene and object recognition
August 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 15, 2008 ABSTRACT We seek to build a large collection of images with ground truth labels to be used for object detection and recognition research. We used the "Tom Sawyer fence painting" approach, and developed a web-based tool that allows easy image annotation and inst...
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- -: Are Internet users at risk?
August 22, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 9, 2008 ABSTRACT In a perfect world, Software would be secure and we would not have to care about vulnerabilites that can get exploited while surfing the Internet.However, given that Google found more than 3 million malicious web addresses that try a drive-by download inf...
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- -: Adium: Multi-protocol Chat for the Mac
August 26, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Adium is now a widely-known multi-protocol chat program for the Mac, but this was not always so. Beginning as a single developer's pet project to learn Cocoa, Adium has evolved considerably through its 6 year history. This talk will discuss the best featu...
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- -: Exploring Ocean depths and the Undersea Voyager Project.
August 29, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 27, 2008 ABSTRACT The Undersea Voyager Project is a multi phase program developed by undersea explorer, Capt. Scott Cassell, founder and CEO of Undersea Voyager Project (a non profit research, and undersea exploration company). The Undersea Voyager Project is designed t...
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- -: A Dynamic Network Layer for Advanced Cloud Computing
September 5, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT In recent years, cloud computing has emerged as an attractive tool for delivering web-based services. Cloud computing enables rapid deployment of new services and allows those services to scale dynamically, in response to changing user demand. Howeve...
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- -: Infinite Possibilities: Archimedes on the Web
September 9, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 8, 2008 ABSTRACT Following up on the March 7, 2006, Google TechTalk on the Archimedes Palimpsest, this presentation will discuss the challenges faced in hosting the digital multispectral images, metadata and encoded transcriptions on the Web. After a decade of scient...
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- -: GiveWell: Real Change for your Dollar
September 20, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 17, 2008 ABSTRACT GiveWell (www.givewell.net) performs in-depth research on charities to help people accomplish as much good as possible with their donations. Unlike existing evaluators, which focus solely on financials, we focus on how well programs actually work - ...
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- -: Results of the Phoenix Mission to Mars and Analog Sites on Earth
October 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 6, 2008 ABSTRACT Phoenix landed at 68N in the ice-rich ground on Mars and investigated the chemistry and geology of a polar site on Mars for the first time. The site is particularly interesting for astrobiology because 5 Myr ago the tilt of Mars' axis was 45 and the am...
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- -: 80:20 rules! - Building software smarter
October 13, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 8, 2008 ABSTRACT Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we have to de...
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- -: People Recognition - A Leapfrog in Organizing Videos
October 18, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 2, 2008 ABSTRACT Shifting from its initial purely entertainment-centric agenda, video is becoming an important media for communication, saving generic facts and personal memories. Viewdle is considering face recognition in real-life videos as one of the three material ...
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- -: Five Years of Exploring Robotic Telepresence
October 21, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 16, 2008 ABSTRACT A technical look at designing robots for the enterprise, how they can free us from time and space, and how they will spawn a new generation of collaboration, remote labor forces, and remote service industries. Santa Monica based RoboDynamics now ente...
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- -: Merb, Rubinius and the Engine Yard Stack
October 21, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 20, 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we will explore a few of the open source projects we work on here at Engine Yard. I will give a detailed overview of the Merb web framework and what it brings to the table. We will also discuss Rubinius, an alternate ruby VM based on Smal...
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- -: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration: Hype or Hope?
October 27, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) has emerged as an important part of the portfolio of technologies for lowering emissions of greenhouse gases. This talk provides an overview of CCS, including the world-wide potential for emissions reduct...
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- -: GTAC 2008: Advances in Automated Software Testing Technologies
October 30, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Elfriede Dustin Speaker: Marcus Borch
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- -: GTAC 2008: Boosting Your Testing Productivity with Groovy
October 31, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Andres Almiray
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- -: GTAC 2008: JInjector - A Coverage and End-to-End Testing Framework for J2ME...
November 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 24, 2008 ABSTRACT GTAC 2008: JInjector - A Coverage and End-to-End Testing Framework for J2ME and RIM The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Julian Harty Speaker: Olivier Gaillard Speaker: Michele Sama
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- -: Geppeto: Consumer's Approach to Programming
November 14, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 10, 2008 ABSTRACT Contemporary society is experiencing a steady stream of new electronic gadgets, software products, and web applications. In this flood of functionality, users have adapted to rely less on manuals (if they are present at all) and shift their learning ...
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- -: Issues and Experiences in Designing Real-time Collaborative Editing Systems
November 18, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 17, 2008 ABSTRACT Real-time collaborative editing systems allow physically dispersed users to work on shared text/hypertext/graphics/multimedia documents at the same time over the Internet. This class of systems have been known to pose multifaceted research and engine...
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- -: The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
November 20, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 18, 2008 ABSTRACT Electrical power is, and will increasingly become, the desired form of energy for its convenience, safety, flexibility and applicability. Even future transportation embraces electric cars, trains, and chemical fuel production (jet fuel, hydrogen, etc...
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- -: GTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications
November 22, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 24, 2008 ABSTRACT GTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Atif M. Memon Speaker: Oluwaseun Akinmade
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- -: Personal Growth Series: Karl Deisseroth on Cracking the Neural Code: Speaking...
November 26, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 21, 2008 ABSTRACT Personal Growth Series: Cracking the Neural Code: Speaking the Language of the Brain with Optics The technological seeds of a Manhattan project-style scientific enterprise, the optical reverse-engineering of brain circuits to crack the neural code, ...
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- -: Stationary Features and Cat Detection
December 25, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks October 31, 2008 ABSTRACT Joint work with Donald Geman Most discriminative techniques for detecting instances from object categories in still images consist of looping over a partition of a pose space with dedicated binary classifiers. The efficiency of this strategy for a co...
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- -: Measuring Noise and the Influence of Noise Reduction on Resolution
January 27, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 22, 2009 ABSTRACT Digital imaging system resolution is determined by a combination of sensor characteristics, lens characteristics, and image-processing algorithms. As pixel size decreases, sensitivity decreases and noise increases, requiring a more sophisticated noise...
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- -: Symmetry Group-based Learning for Regularity Discovery from Real World Patterns
February 10, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks December 15, 2008 ABSTRACT We explore a formal and computational characterization of real world regularity using discrete symmetry groups (hierarchy) as a theoretical basis, embedded in a well-defined Bayesian framework. Our existing work on "A Computational Model for Periodic...
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- -: C++ Mocks Made Easy - An Introduction to gMock
March 19, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 22, 2008 ABSTRACT Note: This project has been open-sourced under the name Google C++ Mocking Framework, and the project's homepage is http://code.google.com/p/googlemock/ Mock objects make unit testing easier and more effective. They cut code dependencies, make the te...
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- -: Using Influence in Understanding Complex Systems
April 23, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk April 22, 2009 ABSTRACT When a complex production system fails or has some less severe but still undesirable behavior, often the debugging technique of first resort is to examine system logs or other passively gathered signals that might hold important clues about the nature of...
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- -: A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actu
April 24, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk April 23, 2009 ABSTRACT A Practical Computer Program that Diagnoses Diseases in Actual Patients, presented by Carlos Feder. Several so called "computer medical diagnosis programs" have been devised. We had a chance to review Internist, Quick Medical Reference (QMR), DXplain, I...
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- -: Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug
May 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk Web Exponents presented by Rob Campbell May 1, 2009 blog post: TBD In this talk we explore web development and debugging strategies with Firebug. An overview of new and improved features and how to use them is presented. We wrap-up with a peek at FireUnit, a new Firebug extensi...
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- -: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications
May 5, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk April 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Urs Hengartner Recently, social-networking applications have started to appear on mobile phones. These applications can exploit a phone's positioning capabilities to facilitate interaction between people. From a privacy point of view, this ...
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- -: An Economic Architecture for Cloud Computing
May 12, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 8, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Kevin Lai Cloud computing and its predecessors, grid and utility computing, all address shared, on-demand computing at scale. To achieve sufficient scale to amortize costs, cloud computing emphasizes saving human time through 1) automated mana...
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- -: Changes to JavaScript, Part 1: EcmaScript 5
May 19, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Mark Miller, Waldemar Horwat, and Mike Samuel. Slides for this talk are available from http://google-caja.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/html/es5-talk/es5-talk.html Today's JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But...
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- -: Space Tourism Markets What We Know And What We Don't Know
May 28, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 21, 2009 ABSTRACT Space Tourism Markets What We Know And What We Don't Know (And how soon will we be able to fly to Australia by hypersonic transport?) Presented by Derek Webber Space Tourism: what is happening and what are the trends? Will there be a point-to-point ...
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- -: Mish's Global Economic Analysis
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk May 6, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Mike "Mish" Shedlock. Mike "Mish" Shedlock is author of one of the most read economics blogs on the Internet: Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis [http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/]. Mish gave an @Google talk, sharing his pers...
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- -: The Church-Turing Thesis: Story and Recent Progress
June 12, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk June 8, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Yuri Gurevich. The Church-Turing thesis is one of the foundations of computer science. The thesis heralded the dawn of the computer revolution by enabling the construct of the universal Turing machine which led the way, at least conceptual...
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- -: Project PlaySIM: Experimenting with Java Card™ 3 System Prog
June 15, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk June 5, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Eric Arseneau, Sun Microsystems, and Fritjof Engelhardtsen, Telenor. The Java Card™ system is the smallest Java™ platform available, but what can you do with it? This session covers some interesting examples involving the playSIM development ...
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- -: Learning Rules with Adaptor Grammars
July 9, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Google Tech Talk July 6, 2009 ABSTRACT [note: apologies for the overscanned slides - you can find full resolution slides at http://www.cog.brown.edu/~mj/papers/johnson09-learning-rules-g.pdf ] Presented by Mark Johnson, Brown University. Nonparametric Bayesian methods are interesting because t...
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- -: Mitigating Web-based Malware Attacks
August 3, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 29, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Neil Daswani. Over the past few years, malware spreading primarily by infecting web pages has been a significant emerging trend that has become so significant that the major search engines (including Google, Yahoo, and MSN) and browsers (su...
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- -: How to Steal a Botnet and What Can Happen When You Do
September 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 10, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Richard A. Kemmerer. Botnets, which are networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security threats on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and insidious type...
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- -: Regional Earth System Prediction: Microbes to Man
September 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Professor Raghu Murtugudde, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland, College Park. While the IPCC will continue to lead Earth System projections for global issu...
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- -: Counting Neutrinos at the South Pole
September 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 23, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Azriel Goldschmidt and Keith Beattie. The South Pole, besides being an interesting place in its own right, is uniquely suited for Neutrino Astronomy and a challenging place to locate a cosmic ray detector and corresponding compute clust...
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- -: Translation by Iterative Collaboration between Monolingual U
September 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk September 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Translation by Iterative Collaboration between Monolingual Users. Presented by Benjamin Bederson. Human translation is expensive and slow, and often unavailable between uncommon language pairs. Machine translation is inexpensive and fast, but qual...
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- -: Learning Low Dimensional Manifolds
October 14, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Google Tech Talk October 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Yoav Freund, UCSD. Many read-world datasets can be characterized as follows: the "extrinsic dimension" of the data is high, but the "intrinsic dimension" is low. Consider for example the data generated by a motion capture device. Such a d...
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