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Cooperation and engagement: what can board games teach us?

Google Tech Talks April, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month. Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game design process as well as how cooperative games can point to new models for engagement in online systems. Pandemic's BoardGameGeek page is www.boardgamegeek.com Speaker: Matt Leacock Matt Leacock is a principal designer at Yahoo! Inc. When he's not designing social platforms and products for Yahoo!, he dabbles in board game design. Matt's ludography (list of game designs) is here: www.boardgamegeek.com Matt's work bio is here: www.socialtext.net Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:38:06 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Inside vmware fusion

Google Tech Talks October, 17 2007 ABSTRACT Join Ben Gertzfield of VMware for a look behind the curtain at virtualization on the Mac, the technology that frees operating systems from their earthly hardware chains. Similar in spirit to the ideals of the microkernel and distributed computing, the abstracted and idealized CPU, storage, network, and other devices provided by virtualization remove the barriers formed by the underlying realities of heterogeneous physical hardware. We'll discuss the technologies forming and building upon virtualization, including the hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor), replay (deterministic recording and replaying of all hardware and software events), and virtual machine-based disaster recovery. In addition, we'll share the lessons learned from jumping head-first into the consumer software and Mac worlds, and how "thinking different" applies to porting a massive source code base to its third platform (after Linux and Windows). This talk will be taped by the engEDU Tech Talks Team. Speaker: Ben Gertzfield Ben Gertzfield is the lead developer of VMware Fusion for Mac, VMware's first virtualization solution for Intel Macs, currently available for free trial download. Ben graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in computer science, and subsequently lived and worked in Japan be... Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:43:35.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Ruby 1.9

Google Tech Talks February, 20 2008 ABSTRACT Ruby 1.9 Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro, aka Matz, born 14 April 1965) is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshu. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where he associated himself with research departments dealing with programming languages and compilers. As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the research and development department at the Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an open source systems integrator company in Shimane prefecture. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary for the church. Matsumoto is married and has four children. en.wikipedia.org Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:37:27.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Daniel suarez, author of daemon

Google Tech Talks February 2, 2009 ABSTRACT This systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, avid gamer and soon-to-be best-selling novelist will talk about his bestselling novel and the bot-mediated reality it envisions. Speaker: Daniel Suarez Daniel Suarez is an independent systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies. He has designed and developed enterprise software for the defense, finance, and entertainment industries. An avid gamer and technologist, he lives in California. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:39:44.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Eclipse day at the googleplex: wiring hacker synapses

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 the development of Equinox-based servers, RCP applications, and Eclipse-based development tools. The provider architecture supports the use of existing communications services, such as Google Talk and UI integration with web-based services, and other Eclipse-based tools. For example, for the upcoming Ganymede release, ECF is working on real-time shared editing of source code to support distributed team use cases like code reviews and collaborative debugging. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:35:56.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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An overview of the coming c++ (c++0x) standard

Google Tech Talks October 31, 2008 ABSTRACT The C++ language has started the formal approval process with the recent release of its Committee Draft, ie Beta. This talk outlines the process, the new features, some features left out, and the procedures for formal comments. Speaker: Matt Austern Matt Austern is a long-time contributor to the C++ standard, as well as a Google engineer. Speaker: Lawrence Crowl Lawrence Crowl is a long-time contributor to the C++ standard, as well as a Google engineer. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:44:45.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The web that wasn't

Google Tech Talks October, 23 2007 ABSTRACT For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web is all we have ever really known. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few visionary information scientists were exploring alternative systems that often bore little resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In this presentation, author and information architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in search of promising ideas left by the historical wayside. The presentation will focus on the pioneering work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the solutions they suggest to present day Web quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the future in the recent technological past. Speaker: Alex Wright Alex Wright is an information architect at the New York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has led projects for The Long Now Foundation, California Digital Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He maintains a personal Web site at www.alexwright.org Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:44:41.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Greg kroah hartman on the linux kernel

Google Tech Talks June, 5 2008 ABSTRACT The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change. It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if any, are sponsering it. Finally, it will go into why companies like Google, and any other that uses or depends on Linux, should care about this development. Lots of numbers and pretty graphs will be shown to keep the audience awake. Speaker: Greg Kroah Hartman Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer for the USB, driver core, sysfs, and debugfs portions of the kernel as well as being one half of the -stable kernel release team. He currently works for Novell as a Fellow doing various kernel related things and has written a few books from O'Reilly about Linux development in the past. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:37:03.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The clean code talks - "global state and singletons"

Google Tech Talks November 13, 2008 ABSTRACT The Clean Code Talk Series Speaker: Misko Hevery Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:40:36.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Polyworld: using evolution to design artificial intelligence

Google Tech Talks November, 8 2007 ABSTRACT This presentation is about a potential shortcut to artificial intelligence by trading mind-design for world-design using artificial evolution. Evolutionary algorithms are a pump for turning CPU cycles into brain designs. With exponentially increasing CPU cycles while our understanding of intelligence is almost a flat-line, the evolutionary route to AI is a centerpiece of most Kurzweilian singularity scenarios. This talk introduces the Polyworld artificial life simulator as well as results from our ongoing attempt to evolve artificial intelligence and further the Singularity. Polyworld is the brain child of Apple Computer Distinguished Scientist Larry Yaeger, who remains the primary developer of Polyworld: www.beanblossom.in.us Speaker: Virgil Griffith Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. On weekdays he studies evolution, computational neuroscience, and artificial life. He did computer security work until his first year of university when his work got him sued for sedition and espionage. He then decided that security was probably not safest field to be in and he turned his life to science. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:49:58.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Theory and practice of cryptography

Google Tech Talks December, 19 2007 Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in Cryptography This talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pm Speaker: Steve Weis Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Category: People & Blogs Length: 01:09:04.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Podcars: using networking ideas to transport people.

Google Tech Talks November 20, 2008 ABSTRACT Podcars are car sized vehicles on guideways elevated over streets. Podcar systems have network topology where each pod is routed the fastest way from origin to destination. High capacity is achieved through short inter-vehicle distances. The direct travel to any destination results in high mean travel speeds, rivaled only by a car in uncongested streets. Podcars use electricity directly off the grid and are very energy efficient. The talk will give a broad description of the technology and the market situation and present a sample network for the Googleplex. Speaker: Bengt Gustafsson Bengt Gustafsson, CEO of Beamways, a Swedish startup developing a Podcar system. Bengt's background is in the software industry where he has developed novel user interface generators, language interpreters and database engines. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:39:42 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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High performance web sites and yslow

Google Tech Talks November 13, 2007 ABSTRACT Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets and why ETags disable browser caching. In this talk I'll go in-depth on these best practices and the research behind them. I'll also demonstrate YSlow and do some live performance analysis of popular web sites. Relevant links: Exceptional Performance: developer.yahoo.com YSlow: developer.yahoo.com Speaker: Steve Souders Steve Souders holds down the job of Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! He's been at Yahoo! since 2000, working on many of the platforms and products within the company He ran the development team for My Yahoo! before reaching his current position. As Chief Performance Yahoo!, he has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. He builds tools for performance analysis and evangelizes these best practices and tools across Yahoo!'s product teams. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:45:25.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Implementing drupal

Google Tech Talks October, 8 2007 ABSTRACT Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Producer at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Angie Byron of Lullabot will talk aboout Drupal development and implementation. Speaker: Geoff Butterfield Speaker: Angie Byron Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:38:25.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The secret history of silicon valley

Google Tech Talks December 18, 2007 How Stanford & the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know Today, presented by Steve Blank. How much does an average Googler know about the history of the place he/she works in - Silicon Valley? Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you - even seasoned Silicon Valley veterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank will talk about how World War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth of Silicon Valley, and the role of Frederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies (including the CIA and the National Security Agency) to set up companies in this area that sparked the creation of hundreds of other enterprises. Steve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of high tech companies in Silicon Valley, most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has been involved in or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games, and personal computers to supercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering. This talk was hosted by Boris Debic Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:42:23.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The neuroscience of emotions

Google Tech Talks September 16, 2008 ABSTRACT The ability to recognize and work with different emotions is fundamental to psychological flexibility and well-being. Neuroscience has contributed to the understanding of the neural bases of emotion, emotion regulation, and emotional intelligence, and has begun to elucidate the brain mechanisms involved in emotion processing. Of great interest is the degree to which these mechanisms demonstrate neuroplasticity in both anatomical and functional levels of the brain. Speaker: Dr. Phillippe Goldin Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:46:37.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Contributing with git

Google Tech Talks October 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Source code versioning is an invaluable tool for software development: - users can easily track the newest versions, - maintainers can easily track down which commit introduced a bug (often making it easier to come up with a fix), - new developers get more documentation than just a big chunk of source code, - etc In my talk I want to stress the importance of source code versioning in a related context: when contributing changes to an Open Source project, which is typically a moving target, it can take a few revisions of the patches until they are accepted. I present several scenarios and workflows, and describe how Git can help with them. Speaker: Johannes Schindelin Johannes studied mathematics with a strong bias to number theory, trying to stay away from applied science as far as possible. Failing, he went on to a software company, where he gave up after finding that code quality played a lower role than pure politics. So he went back to university (Wuerzburg, Germany) to get a PhD in neurogenetics, and after a brief stint at psychology (St Andrews, UK) he now works on image processing (MPI Dresden, Germany). Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:42:39.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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"the clean code talks -- inheritance, polymorphism, & testing"

Google Tech Talks November 20, 2008 ABSTRACT Is your code full of if statements? Switch statements? Do you have the same switch statement in various places? When you make changes do you find yourself making the same change to the same if/switch in several places? Did you ever forget one? This talk will discuss approaches to using Object Oriented techniques to remove many of those conditionals. The result is cleaner, tighter, better designed code that's easier to test, understand and maintain. Speaker: Misko Hevery Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:28:48.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Wuala - a distributed file system

Google Tech Talks October, 30 2007 ABSTRACT After three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is decentralized and can harness idle resources of participating computers to build a large, secure, and reliable online storage. This enables its users to trade parts of their local storage for online storage and it allows us to provide a better service for free. In the talk, I will explain what Wuala is and how it works, and I will also show a demo. All attendees will also get an invitation code to join the early alpha version. Speaker: Dominik Grolimund I am 26 years old and have studied computer science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, I founded my software company Caleido, and developed the Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact management software, of which over 35'000 licenses have been sold so far in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In 2003, I did an exchange semester at the TU Delft, the Netherlands, as part of the Unitech exchange program, focusing on business and management. In 2004, a six-month internship followed with Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, New Jersey in the US, where I worked in the 'Intelligent Vision & Reasoning' department, developing a prod... Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:36:24.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Massively multiplayer open source game development

Google Tech Talks October 16, 2008 ABSTRACT An MMORPG project is challenging for any development team, let alone a distributed team of "amateur" volunteers. This talk will explore the internal design of the FOSS MMO project called PlaneShift, and how that design was influenced by the strengths and weaknesses of the team structure and the community. Topics will include server design, network topology, NPC AI and management and player security, among others. Speaker: Keith Fulton Keith Fulton is the CTO at ChoicePay, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma which is an electronic payments company. In his spare time, he has been the principal architect on the PlaneShift project since 2001, along with dozens of other contributors. PlaneShift has over 500000 registered accounts and maintains a small, tight-knit community of players, fans and developers. The game is entirely written in C++ under the GPL. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:43:59.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Jquery

Google Tech Talks April, 3 2008 ABSTRACT jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands out among its competitors because it is faster, focuses on writing less code, and is very extensible. In this talk, I will explore jQuery and how to use it. I will start off talking about the basics of using jQuery. Then, I will talk about building plugins. Finally, time permitting, I will take apart some plugins and talk about how they work, and I will show the nitty gritty details of the library. Speaker: Dmitri Gaskin Dmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for breakfast every morning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal know-it-all. He contributes patches for both Open Source projects. In the Drupal world, he maintains many modules, is on the security team, and is involved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a mentor and administrator. Dmitri has given many talks on Drupal and jQuery, in such places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live on a radio show out of LA When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare occurrence, he is playing and composing contemporary music. And attending classes in the 6th grade. (He's only 12.) Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:45:27.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Git

Google Tech Talks October, 12 2007 ABSTRACT When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses "git" for their source code repository management, a homegrown solution that is optimized for highly distributed development, working with huge sets of files, merging independent work at multiple levels, and seeing who broke what. (Git has also since been notably adopted by the Cairo, x.org, and Wine teams, and is being transitioned to by the Mozilla codebase.) In my talk, I describe what "git"; is and isn't, and why you should use it instead of CVS, Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs, Mercurial, Monotone, Bazaar, and just about every other repository manager. I'll also walk though the basic concepts so that the manpages might start making sense. If I have time, I'll even do a live walkthrough, where you can watch how fast I make typos. Speaker: Randal Schwartz Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:44:51 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Quantum computing day 1: introduction to quantum computing

Google Tech Talks December, 6 2007 ABSTRACT This tech talk series explores the enormous opportunities afforded by the emerging field of quantum computing. The exploitation of quantum phenomena not only offers tremendous speed-ups for important algorithms but may also prove key to achieving genuine synthetic intelligence. We argue that understanding higher brain function requires references to quantum mechanics as well. These talks look at the topic of quantum computing from mathematical, engineering and neurobiological perspectives, and we attempt to present the material so that the base concepts can be understood by listeners with no background in quantum physics. This first talk of the series introduces the basic concepts of quantum computing. We start by looking at the difference in describing a classical and a quantum mechanical system. The talk discusses the Turing machine in quantum mechanical terms and introduces the notion of a qubit. We study the gate model of quantum computing and look at the famous quantum algorithms of Deutsch, Grover and Shor. Finally we talk about decoherence and how it destroys superposition states which is the main obstacle to building large scale quantum computers. We clarify widely held misconceptions about decoherence and explain that environmental interaction tends to choose a basis in state space in which the system decoheres while leaving coherences in other coordinate systems intact. Speaker: Hartmut Neven Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:42:20.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Monetdb/x100: a (very) fast column-store

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 results from this project. The ideal is to close the existing performance gap between hand-coded applicationas and database systems using architecture-conscious techniques, and by carefully exploiting the bandwith strengs of modern hardware (and avoiding its latency weaknesses). The novel techniques presented encompass expressing relational operators as vector operations, lightweight compression on the border between CPU cache and RAM, sequential-access optimized database design and I/O bandwidth sharing. Speaker: Peter Boncz Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:40:42.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Differential synchronization

Google Tech Talks January 8, 2009 ABSTRACT Keeping two or more copies of the same document synchronized with each other in real-time is a complex challenge. This talk describes an algorithm which is robust, convergent, and efficient. Differential synchronization is the algorithm powering MobWrite. Speaker: Neil Fraser Neil is the developer of MobWrite, a real-time collaborative web-based editor. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:41:02.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Factor: an extensible interactive language

Google Tech Talks October 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Factor is a general-purpose programming language which has been in development for a little over five years and is influenced by Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk. Factor takes the best ideas from Forth -- simplicity, succinct code, emphasis on interactive testing, meta-programming -- and brings modern high-level language features such as garbage collection, object orientation, and functional programming familiar to users of languages such as Python and JavaScript. Recognizing that no programming language is an island, Factor is portable, ships with a full-featured standard library, deploys stand-alone binaries, and interoperates with C and Objective-C. In this talk, I will give the rationale for Factor's creation, present an overview of the language, and show how Factor can be used to solve real-world problems with a minimum of fuss. At the same time, I will emphasize Factor's extensible syntax, meta-programming and reflection capabilities, and show that these features, which are unheard of in the world of mainstream programming languages, make programs easier to write, more robust, and fun. Speaker: Slava Pestov Slava was born in the former USSR and emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 7. He moved to Ottawa, Canada when he was 18 to study for a Bachelors and Masters degree in Mathematics. He now resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. An early adopter of Java, Slava wrote the popular jEdit text editor, then went on to design and ... Category: People & Blogs Length: 01:12:29.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The new nio, aka jsr-203

Google Tech Talks May, 1 2008 ABSTRACT JSR-203 is the NIO update JSR scheduled for release with Java 7. This talk will present an overview of the new NIO features and improvements. Speaker: Alan Bateman Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Spec lead on JSR-203. Speaker: Carl Quinn Software Engineer at Google. Eg member on JSR-203. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:47:11.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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"the clean code talks -- unit testing"

Google Tech Talks October, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Clean Code Talks - Unit Testing Speaker: Misko Hevery Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:24:06 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Agu scientists tech talks - google's spatial tools in the marine environment - decision support

Google Tech Talks December 16, 2008 ABSTRACT TITLE: Google's Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment - Decision Support Presented by: Kurt Schwehr ABSTRACT: Google Maps and Google Earth have put much of the functionality of Geographic Information Systems in the hands of the end users. Maritime users are just beginning to understand the power of map mashups that bring together diverse datasets to help mariners and those who manage the waterways to better understand the uses, risks, and impacts of vessel traffic on our nation's waterways. I will present a number of data types ranging from raster images of ocean flow modeling, to vessel traffic over time captured by the marine Automatic Identification System, to real time right whale notices for vessels approaching Boston Harbor. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:17:26.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Im2gps: estimating geographic information from a single image

Google Tech Talks August 5, 2008 ABSTRACT Estimating geographic information from an image is an excellent, difficult high-level computer vision problem whose time has come. The emergence of vast amounts of geographically-calibrated image data is a great reason for computer vision to start looking globally on the scale of the entire planet! In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for estimating a distribution over geographic locations from a single image using a purely data-driven scene matching approach. For this task, we will leverage a dataset of over 6 million GPS-tagged images from the Internet. We represent the estimated image location as a probability distribution over the Earth's surface. We quantitatively evaluate our approach in several geolocation tasks and demonstrate encouraging performance (up to 30 times better than chance). We show that geolocation estimates can provide the basis for numerous other image understanding tasks such as population density estimation, land cover estimation or urban/rural classification. Speaker: James Hays James Hays received his BS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He has been a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department since 2003 and is advised by Alexei A. Efros. His research interests are in computer vision and computer graphics, focusing on image understanding and manipulation leveraging massive amounts of data. His research has been supported by a National ... Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:35:34.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Google lunar x prize tech talk: will pomerantz (part 1 of 5)

Will Pomerantz and Brett Alexander give a talk at Google's DC headquarters about the Google Lunar X PRIZE. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:07:28.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks .

 

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Dryad: a general-purpose distributed execution platform

Google Tech Talks November, 1 2007 ABSTRACT Web search has generated the need and economic support for a new class of data-intensive supercomputing applications. Several computing platforms have been created to support this need: the first described in the literature is Google's MapReduce. I will describe the architecture of the Dryad system developed at Microsoft Research, and explain some of our design choices. Dryad allows more general computations than MapReduce, and has consequently been used as a middleware abstraction on which higher-level programming models can be implemented. I will also briefly discuss some of these. Speaker: Michael Isard Michael Isard started out as a computer vision researcher, but has gradually been lured into systems research by his colleagues, first at DEC/Compaq SRC and now at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. He was closely involved in the design and implementation of the first version of Microsoft's in-house search engine, and his systems research subsequently has concentrated on programming models for parallel and distributed computing. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:40:29.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Eclipse day at the googleplex: gwt in eclipse

Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex Speaker: Bruce Johnson, Google Building high-performance Ajax easily with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in Eclipse has always been possible, but soon it will be downright easy. Bruce will present GWT's upcoming Eclipse plugin that helps novices get started and lets experts fly. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:40:53.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Personal growth series: the alexander technique

Google Tech Talks October 14, 2008 ABSTRACT Personal Growth Series: The Alexander Technique. Speaker: John Baron Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:36:24.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Amdahl's law in the multicore era

Google Tech Talks February 6, 2009 ABSTRACT Over the last several decades computer architects have been phenomenally successful turning the transistor bounty provided by Moore's Law into chips with ever increasing single-threaded performance. During many of these successful years, however, many researchers paid scant attention to multiprocessor work. Now as vendors turn to multicore chips, researchers are reacting with more papers on multi-threaded systems. While this is good, we are concerned that further work on single-thread performance will be squashed. To help understand future high-level trade-offs, we develop a corollary to Amdahl's Law for multicore chips [Hill & Marty, IEEE Computer 2008]. It models fixed chip resources for alternative designs that use symmetric cores, asymmetric cores, or dynamic techniques that allow cores to work together on sequential execution. Our results encourage multicore designers to view performance of the entire chip rather than focus on core efficiencies. Moreover, we observe that obtaining optimal multicore performance requires further research BOTH in extracting more parallelism and making sequential cores faster. This talk is based on an HPCA 2008 keynote address. Speaker: Mark D. Hill Mark D. Hill (www.cs.wisc.edu is professor in both the computer sciences department and the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where he also co-leads the Wisconsin Multifacet (www.cs.wisc.edu ... Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:39:39.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Sun spots

Google Tech Talks July, 25 2008 ABSTRACT Roger will present a quick overview of Sun Labs, the research arm of Sun Microsystems Inc. He will then talk about Project Sun SPOT (www.sunspotworld.com), a completely open source development platform designed to inspire the next generation of gadgets. Sun SPOT devices are Java-based, small, wireless, mesh networked, secure, sensors and effectors that can be used in everything from sensing the environment to controlling robots. He will show how Sun SPOTs are being used by our community of developers to make pets do tricks and make bicycles fly. More info at http and open source at spots.dev.java.net. Speaker Roger Meike Roger is Senior Director, Area 51 and Director of Operations, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His background is in cognitive science and his career has led him back and forth between new start companies and large research organizations. While his background is mostly in software, he also enjoys consorting with hardware folks. He has been accused of being many things including photo enthusiast, sailor, ham radio operator, musician and techno-geek/nerd. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:45:41.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks .

 

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"science and the taboo of psi" with dean radin

Google Tech Talks January, 16 2008 ABSTRACT Do telepathy, clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do, and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences. Why is a topic of enduring and widespread interest met with such resounding silence in academia? The answer is not due to a lack of scientific evidence, or even to a lack of scientific interest, but rather involves a taboo. I will discuss the nature of this taboo, some of the empirical evidence and critical responses, and speculate on the implications. Speaker: Dean Radin Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on ... Category: People & Blogs Length: 01:11:12.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Sounding the stars with genetic algorithms

Google Tech Talks January 13, 2009 ABSTRACT In February 2009 NASA will launch the Kepler satellite, a mission designed to discover habitable Earth-like planets around distant Sun-like stars. The method that Kepler will use to detect distant worlds will only reveal the size of the planet relative to the size of the host star, so part of the mission is devoted to characterizing distant Suns using a technique known as "asteroseismology". I have developed an automated approach to matching computer models of stars to such observations, based primarily on a parallel genetic algorithm. I will give a broad overview of how we can probe the insides of stars using seismology, and I will provide a general background on the operation of our model-fitting application. I will conclude with our first results on a nearby star: the Sun. Speaker: Travis Metcalfe Travis Metcalfe is an astronomer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He started his career in the backyard of his childhood home in rural Oregon, and continued it in such places as Tucson, Austin, and Boston before landing in Boulder four years ago. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:45:06.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Liquid fluoride reactors: a new beginning for an old idea

Google Tech Talks February 19, 2009 ABSTRACT Slides for this talk are available at: www.slideshare.net Speaker: David LeBlanc David's Ph.d in physics was completed at University of Ottawa (1998) on high temperature superconductors. During this period, he developed a great interest to pursue both fission and fusion reactor design basics, which separately cumulated in a long term fellowship from the Canadian Fusion Fuels Technology Project (later ITER Canada) for his work on the use of high Tc superconductors in the fusion field and also work for Atomic Energy of Canada Limited on worldwide reactor design comparisons. Since then he has been teaching at the Carleton University physics department and continued his investigations primarily in the field of Molten Salt Reactors, also known as Liquid Fluoride Reactors. David founded Ottawa Valley Research Associates Ltd to expand these efforts and has completed a license agreement with a European firm with a goal of development of a new generation of Molten Salt Reactors. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:50:27 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Prince xml: generating high quality pdfs from html + css

Google Tech Talks November, 12 2007 ABSTRACT Please welcome Håkon Lie and Michael Day, who will be presenting Prince XML. Prince Overview: Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS. Dynamic data-driven documents: Prince is an ideal printing component for server-based software such as web applications and database systems. Using Prince, data in XML can easily be converted to PDF documents that can be printed, archived or downloaded over the web. Electronic publishing: Prince can also be used by authors and publishers to typeset and print documents written in HTML, XHTML or one of the many XML-based document formats. Prince is capable of formatting academic papers, scientific journals, novels, and books with extensive illustrations. Speaker: Håkon Wium Lie Håkon Wium Lie, YesLogic Director: Håkon is a web pioneer, having proposed CSS while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon became a devotee when he found that Prince could format his book on CSS (co-authored with Bert Bos) and his PhD thesis. Håkon is a graduate of MIT's Media Lab and is also the CTO of Opera Software. Speaker: Michael Day Michael Day, YesLogic CEO: Michael is the system architect for Prince. He has implemented the CSS processing module, which supports many pioneering CSS features including CSS3 Selectors and Paged Media properties. In ... Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:46:52.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The truth about biofuels in america

Google Tech Talks February, 12 2008 ABSTRACT Charles Anderson of Golden Fuel Systems will give a realistic behind the scenes analysis of many common alternative fuels and transportation options available in the United States such as: Ethanol, Biodiesel, SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil), Hydrogen Fuel Cells and Hybrid and Electric Vehicles. Charles will explain how an SVO conversion to a modern diesel engine works and compare the pros and cons of SVO and the other alternative fuels available. This presentation will be valuable for individuals who are trying to determine what alternative fuel choice is right for them. With his extensive work in the SVO industry, Charles has gained a unique perspective into many of the alternative fuels available in the United States. Speaker: Charles Anderson Charles Anderson is the founder of Golden Fuel Systems (formerly Greasel Conversions) which is one of the world leaders in manufacturing and installation of SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) diesel conversion systems. For over 6 years, Golden Fuel Systems (GFS) has served the world-wide SVO community by offering affordable products, installations, unmatched customer service and knowledgeable technical support. With 6 installation locations around the globe, Golden Fuel Systems has helped thousands convert their diesel vehicles to run on SVO to avoid those costly fuel prices and lessen their environmental impact. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:44:44.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The visual wiki: a new metaphor for knowledge access and management

Google Tech Talks June 4, 2008 ABSTRACT Successful knowledge management results in a competitive advantage in today's information- and knowledge-rich industries. The elaboration and integration of emerging web-based tools and services has proven suitable for collecting and organizing intellectual property. Due to an increasing information overload, information and knowledge visualization have become an effective method for representing complex bodies of knowledge in an alternative fashion by using visual languages. The focus of this research is the development of a "Visual Wiki", which combines the notion of a textual and a visual representation of knowledge. A Visual Wiki model has been proposed which provides a unified framework to design and discuss different approaches. Three prototypes of Visual Wikis have been implemented and evaluated according to the improvements to knowledge management applications that they facilitate. This is joint work with Christian Hirsch and John Grundy Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:24:45.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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The extended mind: recent experimental evidence

Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The commonest kind of non-local interaction mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring. Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation. Speaker: Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College Cambridge. Category: Science & Technology Length: 01:13:16.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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When will we discover the extraterrestrials?

Google TechTalk April 24, 2007 Speaker: Dr. Seth Shostak The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now into its fifth decade, and we still haven't uncovered a confirmed peep from any cosmic company. Could this mean that finding aliens, even if they exist, is a project for the ages -- one that might take centuries or longer? New technologies for use in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) suggest that, despite the continued dearth of signals from other societies, there is good reason to expect that success might not be far off -- that we might find evidence of sophisticated civilizations within a few decades. Why this is so, what contact would tell us, and what such a discovery would mean, are the subject of this talk on the continuing efforts to establish our place in the universe of thinking beings. This Space Exploration series talk was hosted by Boris Debic. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:36:03 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Self-organization: the secret sauce for improving your scrum team

Google Tech Talks September 4, 2008 ABSTRACT High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity. Jeff will discuss three core topics: 1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams. 2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle. 3. Punctuated equilibrium - how software systems evolve Take advantage of these concepts and you may find a way to achieve the ultimate potential of a team. This session will be a "Deep Agile" presentation keying off topics presented to engineers at MIT. Speaker: Jeff Sutherland Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the co-creators of the Scrum software development process. He and Ken Schwaber invented Scrum in 1993. Since then he has worked with many software companies and IT organizations to extend and enhance this process. For more info please Google Jeff or visit his web site. Category: Science & Technology Length: 01:10:00 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Clean code talks - "guiceberry"

Google Tech Talks October 9, 2008 ABSTRACT Clean Code Talk Series: "GuiceBerry". This talk adapted from a talk to be given at OOPSLA on Oct. 23. Speaker: Luiz-Otavio Zorzella Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:36:53.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Changing china one loan at a time

Google Tech Talks January 12, 2009 ABSTRACT As financial institutions melt down, you've probably heard a thing or two about credit--who gets it, from whom, and what it means for the global economy. There are very few bright spots in today's economic environment, but the good news is that in many parts of the world, loans of just a few hundred dollars still have the capacity to change people's lives. Join Casey Wilson, nonprofit startup entrepreneur, to talk about her work with Wokai, the first foreign-funded microfinance organization in China. Casey will share her experiences building an organization that gives the poorest of China's poor the financing to build businesses that lift them from poverty. Speaker: Casey Wilson A co-founder of Wokai, Casey leads business strategy and development, Field Partner due-diligence evaluation, and public outreach. Casey's background is in economic development and its applications in China. Casey has also studied Chinese at Tsinghua University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Middlebury College. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:27:00.750 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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If you had everything computationally where would you put it, financially?

Google Tech Talks May 5, 2008 ABSTRACT Technology has transformed investment and trading over the past 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disintermediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediated when investors have access to primary sources at the same time they do. An ever larger view of exploitable economic and business activity can found on the web. Dr. Leinweber brings an unusually broad and deep view to these issues, from both a sell- and buy-side perspective. Speaker: David Leinweber David Leinweber is Haas Fellow in Finance. His professional interests focus on how moderninformation technologies are best applied in trading and investing. As the founder of two financial technology companies, and a quantitative investment manager he is an active participant in today's transformation of markets. He is an advisor to investment firms, stock exchanges, brokerages, and technology firms in areas related to financial markets , and a frequent speaker and author on these subjects. His book, "Nerds on Wall Street" will be published by Wiley in 2008. He graduated from MIT, in physics and computer science and also has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. But on a good day, it's hard to tell. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:48:36 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Simple interactive 3d modeling for all

Google Tech Talks April, 15 2008 ABSTRACT The recent increase in demand for 3D content, for a wide variety of purposes, has led to a corresponding increase in the number and diversity of people using 3D modeling software. It has also amplified the pressure to deliver 3D models on tight budgets, and at pace. These combined pressures have driven an increase in the sophistication of 3D modelling software, but also a new focus on its usability. VideoTrace represents a significant change in the way 3D models are made, and exemplifies a new kind of interface design. The VideoTrace user sketches the shape they require over a frame of a video sequence, and automated image analysis techniques generate the model. The interface is thus intuitive, and easy to use, but supported by strong mathematical analysis. It allows unskilled users to achieve models that would be impossible using more conventional modelling software, and skilled users to dramatically improve their accuracy and productivity. Speaker: Anton van den Hengel Anton van den Hengel is the Director of the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies, a Director of PunchCard Visual Technologies Pty Ltd, and an Associate Professor in Computer Vision at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. Dr van den Hengel's primary research interests are in interactive 3D modeling from image sets and large-scale video surveillance. Category: People & Blogs Length: 00:39:38.250 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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Agu scientists tech talks - using google sketchup with google earth for scientific applications

Google Tech Talks December 16, 2008 ABSTRACT TITLE: Using Google SketchUp with Google Earth for Scientific Applications Presented by: Declan De Paor ABSTRACT: Numerous scientists and engineers have discovered the value of the Google Earth application and Keyhole Markup Language as a medium for research and teaching in earth science, life science, and environmental science. Google SketchUp, on the other hand, has been used mainly for designing buildings and for recreational 3D modeling.This talk demonstrates the use of Google SketchUp to create Collada models that have Earth and Planetary Science applications on the virtual globe. Sample applications include plate tectonics, geophysics, atmospheric science, and the generation of paleoDEMs that represent the earth's landscape during previous geological periods. Category: Science & Technology Length: 00:14:43.500 Tags: techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education .

 

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