Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
Speaker: Violet Blue
Violet Blue is the best-selling, award-winning author and
editor of twenty books on sex and sexuality, all currently in print, a
number of which have been translated into several languages; she has
contributed to a number of nonfiction anthologies. Violet is a sex
educator who lectures at UC's and community teaching insti...
Duración: 00:37 Min Vistos: 1405821 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
February, 20 2008
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Ruby 1.9
Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro, a.k.a. 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-...
Duración: 49:57 Min Vistos: 42149 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
May 3, 2007
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DNA is a programming language for living cells. The cell's basic operating system, or genome, directs functions like growth and reproduction, energy utilization, and the production of useful compounds like ethanol or penicillin. With genetic engineering, new functions can be added to cells or broken metabolic pathways repaired. Until recently, genetic engin...
Duración: 59:41 Min Vistos: 2011 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007
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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 high...
Duración: 59:47 Min Vistos: 37967 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
March, 3 2008
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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, Voronoi diagrams, Boolean operations on polygons and polyhedra, arrangements of curves and their applicat...
Duración: 54:59 Min Vistos: 10643 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
December, 5 2007
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Cost-effective space solar power (SSP) -- the beaming abundant high-intensity solar power from space though atmospheric windows at laser or microwave frequencies for electric power at the surface -- could be a breakthrough technology for large-scale power generation, highly flexible power distribution and sustainable carbon-neutral base load for Earth...
Duración: 54:23 Min Vistos: 8330 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October 30, 2008
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In 18 months full human genome sequences will be available under $100 - and in minutes. The $5,000 full human genome was announced to come in 9 months. Is "Big IT" ready for the avalanche of data, to be obtained and processed e.g. while the patient is still on the operating table, to be diagnosed, and how the genomics glitch, that caused a benign or ma...
Duración: 58:00 Min Vistos: 3239 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
September, 21 2007
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Brain and computer were wed mid-twentieth century by the McCulloch-Pitts model neuron and Hodgkin-Huxley equations for digital firing in biological neurons. Since then, brain neurons, synapses, firings and networks have been considered analogous to electronic switches, states and circuits in classical computers. But despite extraordinary advances and...
Duración: 59:29 Min Vistos: 9539 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
April, 15 2008
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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 so...
Duración: 52:51 Min Vistos: 12007 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
July, 16 2008
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Many of the applications you develop are applications you would use. This makes it easy to know what will work and what won't. At some point, however, you'll find yourself developing something that you would only occasionally use, and suddenly you're treading in dark places. You know user research is important, you know the experience of using the product...
Duración: 03:57 Min Vistos: 4402 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October 27, 2008
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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 imp...
Duración: 56:53 Min Vistos: 5227 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
May 25, 2007
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The Semantic Web is a field aiming a the creation, deployment, and interoperation of machine readable data on the Internet. In the talk we present some projects in DERI on Semantic Web technologies - notably Semantic Interlinking of Online Community sites, Social Semantic Collaborative Filtering, and ActiveRDF, a library for Browsing, programming and navig...
Duración: 48:41 Min Vistos: 7519 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
November, 8 2007
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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 ...
Duración: 06:38 Min Vistos: 40378 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
November, 1 2007
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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 ...
Duración: 53:59 Min Vistos: 9722 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
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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 ...
Duración: 59:34 Min Vistos: 23202 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
June 6, 2008
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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 covered including many which are of interest to people who don't normally play games! Discover t...
Duración: 04:58 Min Vistos: 6402 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
April, 9 2008
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A long-term goal of Machine Learning research is to solve highy
complex "intelligent" tasks, such as visual perception auditory
perception, and language understanding. To reach that goal, the ML
community must solve two problems: the Deep Learning Problem, and the
Partition Function Problem.
There is considerable theoretical and empirical evidence that ...
Duración: 57:25 Min Vistos: 7609 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October, 30 2007
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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 r...
Duración: 48:32 Min Vistos: 38900 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
February 13, 2007
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This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source operating system designed from the ground up for the desktop, inspired in the concepts and technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover the concepts and features that make Haiku unique, as well as a hands on demo. Credits: Speaker:Bruno Albuquerque, Speaker:Axel Dörfler, Speaker:Jorge Mare, Speake...
Duración: 59:53 Min Vistos: 8953 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October 8, 2008
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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 determine where to start and what we should do next. The 80:20 rule helps provide an answer to these...
Duración: 54:23 Min Vistos: 7423 Veces
