Descripción: Google Tech Talks September 12, 2008 ABSTRACT While performance and power-efficiency are both important, correctness is perhaps even more important. In other words, if your software is misbehaving, it is little consolation that it is doing so quickly or power-efficiently. Google has already done a very impressive job of addressing one of the reasons why software may misbehave, which is that the ...

Descripción: Jon Kabat-Zinn leads a session on Mindfulness at Google.

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March 15, 2007 ABSTRACT If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Ricard will examine the inner and outer factors that increase or diminish our sense of well-being, dissect the underlying mechanisms of happiness, and lead us to a way of looking at the mind itself based on his book, Happiness: A Guide to L...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July, 21 2008 ABSTRACT Cryptography is now much more than keeping credit card numbers safe from packet sniffers and laptop thieves. We combine several advances in cryptography theory to construct a model of computation in which a third party securely performs computations for a set of parties who do not trust one another. These parties encrypt their inputs to a computation, th...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 27, 2008 ABSTRACT Factor is a general-purpose programming language which has been in development for a little over five years and is influenced by Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk. Factor takes the best ideas from Forth -- simplicity, succinct code, emphasis on interactive testing, meta-programming -- and brings modern high-level language features such as garbage collection, ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 8, 2008 ABSTRACT Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we have to determine where to start and what we should do next. The 80:20 rule helps provide an answer to these...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 29 2007 ABSTRACT I am the father of a 3 year old girl with a hereditary disease affecting her muscles, a condition that may also seriously affect her heart. Her syndrome, a collection of physical findings that have a common cause, has never been described by doctors though it is very closely related to other well known syndromes including the Marfan syndrome, a diagno...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July 7, 2008 ABSTRACT Urbi is a middleware for concurrent and distributed programming, based on a new parallel and event-driven script language called 'urbiScript'. Using a familiar and easy-to-use syntax, the language offers several concurrent abstractions rooted in the language semantics, together with an integrated scheduler and a distributed component architecture cal...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 29 2008 ABSTRACT We present an algorithm to convert standard digital pictures into 3-d models. This is a challenging problem, since an image is formed by a projection of the 3-d scene onto two dimensions, thus losing the depth information. We take a supervised learning approach to this problem, and use a Markov Random Field (MRF) to model the image depth cues as well ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August, 18 2008 ABSTRACT Matt dances badly on the internet and he is quasi-famous for it. Want to learn more about traveling the world, getting someone else to pay for it, bad dancing, and becoming a YouTube sensation? Come hear Matt talk about his adventures or read/see more at wherethehellismatt.com. Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Spea...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 29 2008 ABSTRACT I will present recent work for acquiring, rendering, and displaying photoreal models of people, objects, and dynamic performances. I will overview image-based lighting techniques for photorealistic compositing and reflectance acquisition techniques which have been used to create realistic digital actors in films such as "Spider Man 2" and "Superman R...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 1, 2008 ABSTRACT To create enhanced user interfaces for retrieval and processing of audio and other media, we developed a range of techniques that leverage the human brain's enormous capabilities in visual and auditory perception and draw on computer graphics as well as automated acoustic content analysis and new applications of human-computer interface devices. Our aim...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 14 2008 ABSTRACT The initial reaction and subsequent adoption patterns innovative designs receive often surprise their designers. But, regardless of the care and passion any designer embeds in a novel creation, the ultimate success metric can rest on the design's intended functional effectiveness and subsequent adoption rate on the design's ultimate proving ground. With...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 20, 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we will explore a few of the open source projects we work on here at Engine Yard. I will give a detailed overview of the Merb web framework and what it brings to the table. We will also discuss Rubinius, an alternate ruby VM based on SmallTalk 80 blue book that also uses LLVM for low level optimizations. We will also explore the 'stac...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 10, 2008 ABSTRACT The disruptive technology of new media is far more accessible than most realize. The impact of new media is far more impressive than most report. The mavericks of new media are slowly taking over - quietly, but with a shadow that dramatically changes the Internet's role in media (delivery, creation and consumption). At this point in time, these mavericks ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 3, 2008 ABSTRACT We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing without question that happiness and suffering come from "out there." In reality, Buddhist teachings explain that they come from the way we perceive and interpret things, not the things themselves. This deeply held misconception is at the root of our dissatisfaction, self-doubt, anger, dep...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 2, 2008 ABSTRACT Shifting from its initial purely entertainment-centric agenda, video is becoming an important media for communication, saving generic facts and personal memories. Viewdle is considering face recognition in real-life videos as one of the three material steps ahead (along with tracking location and timecodes) towards effective organization of videos. The ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT CARMEN is a $9M project building a scalable science cloud. Its focus is on supporting neuroscientists who will use it to store, share and analyze 100s of TBs of data. Understanding how the brain works is a major scientific challenge which will benefit medicine, biology and computer science. Globally, over 100,000 neuroscientists are working on this p...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Explore the brain's amazing ability to change throughout a person's life. This phenomenon—called neuroplasticty—is the science behind brain fitness, and it has been called one of the most extraordinary scientific discoveries of the 20th century. PBS had recently aired this special, The Brain Fitness Program, which explains the brain's complexities in a w...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 11, 2008 ABSTRACT The advent of high-speed wide-area networks, coupled with emerging open standards for attached storage, has enabled relocation of traditional workstation drives to remote datacenter servers and facilitated virtualization of the boot process. It is now possible to load operating systems from remote storage arrays using protocols such as HTTP, iSCSI and A...