Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT With few exceptions, the design of digital systems -- both hardware and software -- is based on trial and error, and it is this aspect of digital design that we must move beyond in order to achieve a fundamental advance in the reliability and security of the systems we create. In this talk, we take a critical look at the problem from the perspective of ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) has emerged as an important part of the portfolio of technologies for lowering emissions of greenhouse gases. This talk provides an overview of CCS, including the world-wide potential for emissions reductions with CCS, capture options and costs, what is known about the security of geological sequestration,...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July, 31 2008 ABSTRACT Consumerization of enterprises: A Security Conundrum No one can argue that consumerization is happening within today's enterprises. This is the first time in the computing history that consumer technologies are driving innovation and technology adoption, rather than taking a back seat to enterprise and military technologies. Consumer technologies bring a...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 5 2007 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is an emerging IETF standard (RFC 4871) to authenticate sending domains in SMTP mail. It is designed to be scalable, extensible, back-compatible, and adoptable without any flag days. This talk will cover the background of sender domain authentication in general and DKIM in particular, details of how DKIM works, and other issue...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 14 2007 ABSTRACT About Gemalto Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is the leader in digital security with pro forma 2006 annual revenues of €1.7 billion, more than 85 offices in 40 countries and about 10,000 employees including 1,300 R engineers. In a world where the digital revolution is increasingly transforming our lives, Gemalto's solutions are designed to make ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 15 2008 ABSTRACT REST Describe & Compile is an editor and a compiler for REST Web services based on SUN engineer Marc Hadley's Web Application Description Language (WADL). REST Describe & Compile is implemented using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and is split up in two sub-apps: REST Describe: This component takes a (set of) URL(s) as input and tries to analyze the pa...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March, 11 2008 ABSTRACT Creating digital content for virtual worlds remains a significant challenge, especially for urban environments, which are among the largest and most complex. As display capabilities improve and audience expectations grow, procedural modeling techniques are becoming an increasingly important supplement to traditional modeling software. In this talk, we pr...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 21 2008 ABSTRACT Reproducing an act with sensorimotor means and using fine natural language for communicating the intentionality behind the act is what Aristotle called "Poetics". POETICON explores the "poetics of everyday life", i.e. the synthesis of sensorimotor representations and natural language in everyday human interaction. This is related to an old problem in ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 22, 2008 ABSTRACT The old idea of impulse radio dates back to Marconi's first wireless transmissions using sparks. Unlike most wireless today, impulse radio transmissions are extremely wideband signals. The recently FCC- released frequency band from 3.1GHz to 10.6GHz is the widest unlicensed frequency band ever released (7.5GHz). This ultra wide bandwidth (UWB) is commercia...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks September 8, 2008 ABSTRACT There is a great need for programs that can describe what people are doing from video. This is difficult to do, because it is hard to identify and track people in video sequences, because we have no canonical vocabulary for describing what people are doing, and because phenomena such as aspect and individual variation greatly affect the appearanc...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 14 2008 ABSTRACT The SIP-based IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), while recently introduced, has become one of the primary distinguishing features of the next generation of mobile telecommunication systems. IMS allows mobile operators to offer advanced value-added services - like VoIP, so-called push-to-media, video, interactive gaming, and mobile banking - to their custom...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 15 2008 ABSTRACT While they might share common conservation goals, motivating advocates, scientists and policy makers to share public data is no easy task. Issues of trust, data provenance, statistical accuracy, and usability are all challenges that cause collaborative public GIS platforms to fail. Rhiza Labs CEO Josh Knauer will give an overview of databasin.org, a free...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November 11, 2008 ABSTRACT Berners-Lee's vision of the Semantic Web is hindered by a chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a bootstrapping method: creating enough structured data to motivate the development of applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying Wikipedia' is the best way to bootstrap. We choose Wikipedia as an initial data source, because it...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 8 2008 ABSTRACT Emporiatrics or Travel Medicine is a discipline within medicine that prepares a traveler using vaccines, medicines and knowledge to avoid disease when visiting a foreign destination. I will discuss the current mapping of interventions offered to patients planning trips and illustrate with examples how the constraints of patient needs and the risks at ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 4, 2008 ABSTRACT The essence of system-level design is the need to concurrently consider information from multiple engineering domains across multiple subsystems to assess holistic system properties. The systems engineer is responsible for bringing together all facets of a system for evaluation of system-level requirements and to aid in understanding system impacts of loc...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 22 2008 ABSTRACT Higher education is changing rapidly in the Middle East with the establishment of new U.S. campuses in the Gulf Emirates and the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. And at a time when Arab opinion of U.S. policies has never been lower, the demand for U.S.-style, English-language higher education in the Middle East has ne...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 12, 2008 ABSTRACT Abstract: One of the most commonly neglected security vulnerabilities associated with typical online service providers lies in the password reset process. By being based on a small number of questions whose answers often can be derived using data-mining techniques, or even guessed, many sites are open to attack. To exacerbate the problem, many sites pos...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March, 7 2008 ABSTRACT Learning to code has become both more important and more complicated in the last decade. We need to make it attractive and easy again. Most western countries currently experience a shortage of skilled computing professionals in the employment market. We have seen a similar problem in the 1990s, but this time the situation is different: While the problem...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT High Dynamic Range (HDR) image capture and display has become an important engineering topic. The discipline of reproducing scenes with a high range of luminances has a five-century history that includes painting, photography, electronic imaging and image processing. HDR images are superior to conventional images. There are two fundamental scientific i...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed a...