Descripción: 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 i...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 20, 2008 ABSTRACT Chris Myers Asch will speak about his efforts to build the U.S. Public Service Academy as the civilian counterpart to the military service academies a federally-funded college where students would get a free education in return for a commitment to serve for five years in the public sector, at the local, state, or national levels. Without lobbyists, a PR...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 8 2008 ABSTRACT For more info, see http://literacybridge.org/ Knowledge is power; but most knowledge is tied up in text. So how do the 774 million illiterate adults in the world access knowledge crucial to preventing disease, creating economic opportunity, and defending their political and human rights? Cliff spent six weeks in a remote region of Ghana to u...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July 14, 2008 ABSTRACT One quick Google search on "egg donation" will demonstrate how prevalent the ads are to "make dreams come true" or "help create a miracle". Women on Ivy League campuses across America and poor women from around the world are being heavily recruited to "donate" their eggs to fertility clinics and now for cloning research. Sadly, egg donation has less to...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 19 2008 ABSTRACT Digital tools for annotation of video have the promise to provide immense value to researchers in disciplines ranging from psychology to computer science to ethnography. With the traditional methods for annotation being cumbersome, time-consuming, and frustrating, technological solutions are situated to aid in video annotation by increasing reliability, r...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 4 2008 ABSTRACT Verification techniques that rely on state enumeration (such as model checking) face two important challenges: 1) State-space explosion: exponential increase in the state space with the increasing number of components. 2) Environment generation: modeling components that are either not available for analysis, or that are outside the scope of the verificati...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March 5, 2007 ABSTRACT Google has one of the largest aerial/satellite image collections in the world, but there's more to find in all that data than just a picture of your house. The same data that goes into Google Earth can tell you more about your environment than a Star Trek tricorder, if you know where to look. Come learn about "Remote Sensing": how to make quantitative us...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 9 2008 ABSTRACT New Light on the Dawn of Digital Computing, 1945-1958 The digital universe consists of two kinds of bits: differences in space and differences in time. Digital computers translate between these two forms of information--structure and sequence--according to definite rules. Sixty-three years ago, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, John ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 31 2008 ABSTRACT Being creative and successful in business and your personal lives requires that you be responsive and flexible as you move beyond your comfort zones. Though it may seem paradoxical, all real change and creativity begins by facing and understanding the reality of your current situation. Learning to see and respond with greater clarity is wh...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 ABSTRACT 1) What yoga means to lululemon 2) Original intent and philosophy of lululemon. 3) How lulu is handling growth Speaker: Chip Wilson Chip Wilson is a passionate entrepreneur and visionary who is best known for his creation of lululemon athletica. Chip founded the dynamic, yoga-inspired athletic apparel company in 1998 with the mission to provide peo...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 12 2007 ABSTRACT This talk discusses how IT professionals can go about learning what they need to know to prevent the most significant emerging data security vulnerabilities, and the impact these vulnerabilities are having on electronic commerce. In this talk, I will review how attacks such as XSRF (Cross-Site-Request-Forgery) and SQL Injection work, and how to proper...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 15 2008 ABSTRACT Ken Ingham, Ph.D. will describe the architecture and motivation behind the development of Amazability, Inc.'s Adept1 product. The Adept1 performs natural language analysis and interprets spoken words and phrases or typed input. It accepts and interprets verbal commands and responds with high quality speech. The Adept1 is equipped with voice recognition and...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Many technical women face surprising and similar challenges, which are often unspoken and self-imposed. I will present observations and suggestions around the impostor syndrome, feelings of isolation, tendencies to over-analyze, excessive humility, and reluctance to negotiate. I will also present "best advice" offered by women engineers for women ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 11 2007 ABSTRACT As part of our SciFoo Campers @Google Tech Talk series, acclaimed author Kim Stanley Robinson will share his thoughts on climate change in what promises to be an insightful and provocative hour. The recent IPCC and UN reports on climate change make it clear that we face an imminent environmental crisis, and that there is an urgent need to decarbonize ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 14 2008 ABSTRACT Google's own Dylan Casey will be speaking about his experience riding the TdF with the Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team. Check out http:// dylancasey.com/ for more info about Dylan. Speaker: Dylan Casey Dylan Casey maybe best known for his prowess on the road these days, but he's also quite accomplished on the track. In 1998, Casey became just the...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 6, 2008 ABSTRACT Phoenix landed at 68N in the ice-rich ground on Mars and investigated the chemistry and geology of a polar site on Mars for the first time. The site is particularly interesting for astrobiology because 5 Myr ago the tilt of Mars' axis was 45 and the amount of sunlight reaching the Phoenix site at summer solstice is 2x the present value - Earth like leve...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 23 2008 ABSTRACT Overview: Mark Birbeck has spent a number of years working on flexible user interfaces, both by developing software and working with the W3C on new standards. His latest work involves creating an Ajax framework that uses metadata embedded in HTML documents to drive dynamic user interfaces. The framework makes it easy for authors to build interactive sites,...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 6 2007 ABSTRACT Millions of diagnostic 3D radiological scans (such as MRI and CT) are performed in the US each year. Chances are that you or a family member will receive such a scan during your lifetime. In all likelihood, the scan will be interpreted by a radiologist in less than 11 minutes (abdomen), 10 minutes (chest), or 4 minutes (brain), after which the data wi...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Ant colonies operate without central control; there is no one in charge and no ant directs the behavior of others. Colonies perform many tasks including foraging, nest construction, and care of the young. Task allocation is the process that adjusts the numbers of workers performing each task, according to the current situation. How do colonies get ants t...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 1 2008 ABSTRACT Given Ms. DeFrantz's day to day work at the LA84Foundation, there are many questions about the ethical nature of sport as viewed through the goals of the Olympic movement. The LA84 Foundation exists because of the 1984 Olympic Games. Their mission is to get youth life ready through sports. The IOC has decided to have Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2010....