- -: Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story
February 22, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal level to its place in the cosmos. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confe...
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- -: Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
April 7, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's incredible ...
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- -: Google D.C. Talks: "Tech Agenda 2009: 21st Century Economy"
December 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)The first in a series of town halls, "Tech Agenda 2009: Building an Infrastructure for a 21st Century Economy" focused on economic growth and the technology infrastructure needed to foster innovation. Panelists include Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge, Jennifer Canty of Dyscern, Ben Scott of Free P...
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- -: Google D.C. Talks: "Tech Agenda 2009: Open Government" (1/2)
December 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)The second in a series of town halls, "Tech Agenda 2009: Creating New Opportunities for Open & Participatory Government" focused on how technology can help government become more accountable, transparent and participatory. Panelists for Panel I, "Practicing Openness & Citizen Participation: Less...
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- -: Google D.C. Talks: "Tech Agenda 2009: Open Government" (2/2)
December 16, 2008 (over 15 years ago)The second in a series of town halls, "Tech Agenda 2009: Creating New Opportunities for Open & Participatory Government" focused on how technology can help government become more accountable, transparent and participatory. Panelists for Panel II, "Changing Policy to Promote Open Government," inc...
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- -: Scrum et al.
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks September 5, 2006 Ken Schwaber co-developed the Agile process, Scrum. He is a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance, and signatory to the Agile Manifesto. Ken has been a software developer for over thirty years. He is an active advocate and evangelist for Agile proce...
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- -: Photo Tech EDU Day 1: Photo Technology Overview
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talk January 17, 2007 ABSTRACT The goal of PhotoTechEDU is to have a Photographic Technology short course for engineers. The course will teach: - useful properties of light and image formation - theory and techniques of photographic optics and image capture - theory of colorimetry ...
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- -: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 25, 2007 ABSTRACT Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before th...
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- -: OSS Speaker Series: Python for Programmer
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April 10, 2007 ABSTRACT Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large standard library and a wealth of third-party extensions, libraries and tools. With several production-quality open-source impl...
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- -: Mindfulness Stress Reduction And Healing
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 8, 2007 ABSTRACT Presenter: Jon Kabat-Zinn Jon Kabat-Zinn will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one's experience, re...
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