Descripción: Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google Tech Talks September 7th, 2006 Presenter: Rick Mugridge

Descripción: Google TechTalks April 26, 2006 James Lyndsay James Lyndsay is actively involved in the international software testing community. He received 'Best Paper' awards at the largest software testing conferences in both the US and Europe in 2002, and gave keynote talks at AsiaSTAR and STAREast in 2003. He is an invited participant in a range of influential forums, including the ISEB / ISTQB softwar...

Descripción: Google TechTalks May 4, 2006 Glorianna Davenport Glorianna Davenport is a Principal Research Associate and founding member of the MIT Media Lab where she leads the Media Fabrics (formerly Interactive Cinema) group. Trained as a documentary filmmaker, Davenport has achieved international recognition for her work in digital media forms. ABSTRACT Today, video and audio recording devices allo...

Descripción: Google TechTalks May 24, 2006 Cyrus Shahabi Cyrus Shahabi is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Information Laboratory (InfoLAB) at the Computer Science Department and also a Research Area Director at the NSF's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California. ABSTRACT The vision of GeoDec is to enable an information-rich and realistic ...

Descripción: Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Jeff Burke Dana Cuff Deborah Estrin Michael Hamilton Mark Hansen William Kaiser Jerry Kang Fabian Wagmister ABSTRACT Sensors and their data will dominate tomorrow's global network. Location-tagged images and sound, captured from mobile phones, will intersect with data from municipal monitoring of city infrastructure and embedded sensors placed by citi...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 23, 2007 ABSTRACT At present, adapting an Information Extraction system to new topics is an expensive and slow process, requiring some knowledge engineering for each new topic. We propose a new paradigm of Information Extraction which operates 'on demand' in response to a user's query. On-demand Information Extraction (ODIE) aims to completely eliminate the customiz...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February 8, 2007 ABSTRACT I have implemented DialogDevil via three different user interfaces: 1. direct to Windows API via ctypes 2. wxPython, and 3. separate embedded html-based process. The pros and cons of each approach from a developer's perspective will be discussed using metrics such as memory footprint, download size, flexibility, robustness, and vi...

Descripción: Google TechTalks January 31, 2006 Katsumi Tanaka Toru Ishida A group of faculty and students from the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University in Japan visiting the Googleplex. They will present an overview of the research at their lab

Descripción: Google TechTalks Bay Area Discrete Math Day XII April 15, 2006 Dave Bayer (Barnard College, Columbia University) ABSTRACT Circular colorability geometrizes the study of graph colorings. Using color values in R mod Z, one can reformulate "avoid edge differences close to zero" as " seek edge differences close to 1/2", then generalize to arbitrary edge difference goals. We define the colorin...

Descripción: Google TechTalks March 7, 2006 Will Noel Roger L. Easton, Jr. Michael B. Toth ABSTRACT The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th Century medieval manuscript that is the subject of an ongoing technical, scientific and conservation effort at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 1999, the multidisciplinary team has been disbinding, conserving, imaging, analyzing, transcribing and ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February 13, 2007 ABSTRACT A large percentage of time behind the computer screen is spent on editing text. Investing a little time in learning more efficient ways to use a text editor pays itself back fairly quickly. This presentation will give an overview of the large number of ways of using Vim in a smart way to edit programs, structured text and documentation. Examples ...