Descripción: Google Tech Talks
February, 12 2008
ABSTRACT
In this brand-new presentation, Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at
Canonical shares his vision of the future of the Linux desktop
community, and talks about how the desktop is growing and dealing with
the incredible focus and growth that has happened to it in recent years.
The talk covers the history of the Linux desktop so far, where it has
broa...
Duración: 02:20 Min Vistos: 5850 Veces
Descripción: 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 prin...
Duración: 02:30 Min Vistos: 16596 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
August 5, 2008
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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 estimat...
Duración: 47:26 Min Vistos: 2585 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
December, 18 2007
Volcanoes are some of the most dynamic and visually spectacular natural features on the Earth's surface. In Alaska, volcanoes are an intrinsic part of the landscape and culture, with over 70 volcanoes and volcanic fields that have been active in historic time. Monitoring of these volcanoes is undertaken by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) using a suite of m...
Duración: 55:14 Min Vistos: 7692 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
August 13, 2008
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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 words that will be "valuable" in some sense to the dictionary purchaser. As publishing moves increasin...
Duración: 42:55 Min Vistos: 3504 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
April, 28 2008
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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 Digital Memories vision, briefly present various studies that challenge that vision, moving on to sugg...
Duración: 08:00 Min Vistos: 3633 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
June 4, 2008
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Speaker: Andrew Ireland
Andrew Ireland graduated with a First Class Hons degree in Computing Science from the University of Stirling.
Supported by a Carnegie Scholarship, he continued his studies at Stirling obtaining a PhD. He then moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he took up the post of teaching assistant within the then Department of Artific...
Duración: 35:14 Min Vistos: 1392 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
March, 7 2008
ABSTRACT
The world has evolved a long way from the Stone Age to the Iron age, and
we are now in the new age of engineered materials. Today's discussion
will focus in the realm of advanced ceramics, materials that aren't
typically found in nature and can withstand extreme conditions. These
materials are being used to stop bullets, enable diesel engines to run
more...
Duración: 35:17 Min Vistos: 5182 Veces
Descripción: 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 and reciprocity. Though, when you start looking closer at the daily practice of OSS it becomes increasing...
Duración: 37:51 Min Vistos: 2445 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
August 13, 2008
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Based on insights derived from theory of global optimization, we have made a major breakthrough in physical design of several massively parallel systems. These include:
New design of parallel supercomputers based on massively parallel quantum tunneling, electron optics and finite projective geometry. This approach overcomes the bandwidth and latency ob...
Duración: 00:04 Min Vistos: 4781 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
April, 7 2008
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Mark Templer is the CEO of the HOPE Foundation, India
Mission statement:
Bringing hope. Changing Lives.
Vision:
Our vision is simple: to bring hope to those with none and to change the lives of everyone we come into contact with - our donors, volunteers, staff, NGO partners, government, and the poor whom we serve.
HOPE foundation is a compassionate b...
Duración: 49:19 Min Vistos: 3215 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
March, 11 2008
ABSTRACT
Many users really want to find objects rather than pages. In the past few years, there has been significant progress in research in machine learning methods for information extraction (IE).
I'll describe some of this progress, with a focus on recent machine learning advances in entity resolution and schema matching---with the combination of logical claus...
Duración: 09:03 Min Vistos: 2382 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
June 9, 2008
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Multi-touch is a new way of human computer interaction, which recognizes multiple simultaneous touch points, as opposed to the standard touchscreen, which recognizes only one touch point at a time. There are many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices, however with the introduction of Apple iPho...
Duración: 12:42 Min Vistos: 10125 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
January, 29 2008
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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 practical strategies for articulating passions and reaching goals.
Participants will hear about two ...
Duración: 39:37 Min Vistos: 8681 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
November, 2 2007
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Does Web 2.0 represent a triumph of the wisdom of crowds, or the tyranny of mediocrity? The truth--as truths often do--may fall somewhere in the middle. New tools have indeed allowed access to new ideas, voices, and expertise. But at the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. In education, the shift from &quo...
Duración: 57:42 Min Vistos: 3079 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
January, 23 2008
ABSTRACT
I will describe some algorithms for addressing some fundamental optimization
problems that arise in the context of data storage and management. In the
first part of the talk we will address the following question: How should
we store data in order to effectively cope with non-uniform demand for
data? How many copies of popular data objects do we need? ...
Duración: 54:56 Min Vistos: 7110 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
October 15, 2008
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EM (the Expectation Maximization algorithm) is a well known technique for unsupervised learning (where one does not have any hand labeled solutions available, but instead one must learn from the raw text). Unfortunately EM is known to fail to find good solutions in many (most?) applications on which it is tried. In this talk we present some recent work...
Duración: 12:53 Min Vistos: 1926 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
July, 10 2008
ABSTRACT
"One number, one painting - the number is the art is the limit is the price."
Onethousandpaintings.com is a truly global art project that has received worldwide media coverage (BBC, Wired, BoingBoing, and many others). On May 30th and 31st 2006 alone, 322 paintings were sold - most likely the highest number of unique, handmade paintings sold on the inter...
Duración: 37:48 Min Vistos: 4720 Veces
Descripción: 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 selection techniques (CORI), and
a new selection function outperforming the state of the art. Our
...
Duración: 33:01 Min Vistos: 5044 Veces
Descripción: Google Tech Talks
August 28, 2008
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Bayesian nonparametric models have garnered significant attention in recent years in both the machine learning and statistics communities. These are highly flexible models whose complexity grows with the amount of data, and are nice approaches to addressing the common problem of model selection. In this talk I shall first give a brief overview of D...
Duración: 03:49 Min Vistos: 4082 Veces
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