Descripción: 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 r...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 20 2008 ABSTRACT 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-...

Descripción: 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 covered including many which are of interest to people who don't normally play games! Discover t...

Descripción: 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, Voronoi diagrams, Boolean operations on polygons and polyhedra, arrangements of curves and their applicat...

Descripción: 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 ...

Descripción: 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 fuels are presenting the 21rst century with. Blandine will be happy to present you with some of the in...

Descripción: 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 high...

Descripción: 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 ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February 13, 2007 ABSTRACT 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...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 8 2008 NIH awards more than $500M/yr for grants to researchers pursuing research in biomedical informatics. This includes computation, simulation, modeling, and, increasingly, work on storage, retrieval, curation, and analysis of massive amounts of data needed for biomedical research. Dr. Marron will outline the investment strategy for making awarding funds in this bro...

Descripción: Google TechTalks July 21, 2006 Guido van Rossum is a computer programmer who is best known as the author and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python programming language. ABSTRACT The next major version of Python, nicknamed Python 3000 (or more prosaically Python 3.0), has been anticipated for a long time. For years I have been collecting and exploring ideas that were too radical for Python 2...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 25, 2007 ABSTRACT 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...

Descripción: Could driverless cars work in Doha? QSTP TECHtalk by Dr. Chris Urmson of Carnegie Mellon University's Tartan Racing team, 18 March 2008.

Descripción: The Jekyll-and-Hyde Life of the Entrepreneur Professor. QSTP TECHtalk by Dr. Hussein Alnuweiri of Texas A&M University at Qatar, 23 January 2008.

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...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 3, 2007 ABSTRACT 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...

Descripción: 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 ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 31 2008 ABSTRACT Advancing toward your dreams and goals is an essential part of personal satisfaction, leadership and career development, transitioning to a new role/location, performance improvement, and dealing with crises. This fast-paced, hands-on session will cover a variety of unique and fun exercises and practices. You will learn the importance of life ...

Descripción: 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 the moment, there is no apparent universal replacement. And it is the focus of this talk. Somewhat surpr...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 14 2008 ABSTRACT Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society, and environment. A framework for computing in the context of problems facing the planet will be presented. The framework has a number of goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimising with a global world model, reliably predicting and reacting to ...