Descripción: Google Tech Talks March, 5 2008 ABSTRACT "A revolutionary charity." -- Oprah Winfrey "This new philanthropy system is turning traditional philanthropy on its head." -- ABC World News Tonight "I encourage everybody to go on and make donations...let's make a difference." -- Stephen Colbert "The results are powerful." -- BusinessWeek "I think the capacity to expand is infinite." -- Bill Clinto...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 Achieving pleasing color balance is one of the most important and difficult problems in photographic systems; if the color balance is off, other image quality attributes drop in important and the result is unacceptable. In this talk I will discuss the differences between color balance and white balance for both photographic and machine vision applications and I...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July, 17 2008 ABSTRACT Three companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue. Teams from Joyent and Twitter and DTrace developer Bryan Cantrill from Sun joined forces to spend a day looking in detail at how Ruby processes behave within a Rails production environment. The purpose ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 24 2008 ABSTRACT The Sun Labs Lively Kernel is a new approach to web programming. It provides a complete platform for web applications, including dynamic graphics, network access, and development tools, and requires nothing more than available web browsers. We call the system lively for three reasons: It comes live off a web page. There is no installation. The entire ...

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 October 17, 2008 ABSTRACT The LHC is the biggest (27 kilometers around) scientific instrument ever built and it is now ramping up to start taking data. It smashes together protons at enormous energy in order to create new forms of matter. Physicists hope to find the Higgs Boson which is the missing link in our current theory. Hopefully unanticipated discoveries will be made. I ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT This paper presents a significant new way of networking and data handling globally. This data centric network is likely to revolutionise the IT industry in a very positive fashion. Index Terms—security, freedom, privacy, DHT, encryption Introduction This paper describes a method of distributing information in a controlled non-owned grid. The main...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 13 2007 ABSTRACT This tech talk series explores the enormous opportunities afforded by the emerging field of quantum computing. The exploitation of quantum phenomena not only offers tremendous speed-ups for important algorithms but may also prove key to achieving genuine synthetic intelligence. We argue that understanding higher brain function requires references to q...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 29, 2008 ABSTRACT For six years, I have worked on learning quality predictors from NASA data. Based on that experimence, this talk offers the following lessons from the trenches: 1) Real world data collection is more like ambulance chasing that bus driving. The old DoD model of rigorous process control just breaks down in the modern era of distributed software developm...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Join a fascinating presentation on how to find good journalism online, hosted by NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit social news network devoted to quality news and information. NewsTrust helps people make more informed decisions as citizens, by offering an integrated online service, which includes a quality news filter, media literacy tools and a civic engagem...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 7, 2008 ABSTRACT The success of Google's "RE less than C" initiative hinges on coal (C). This talk will review major developments in the coal industry worldwide and explain why coal will be very difficult to unseat in the emerging markets where growth in consumption is most rapid. In the industrialized world the situation is different, and the recent explosion in ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 8 2008 ABSTRACT Big animals - if we learn to love them and understand their survival - we will do everything to protect them. Professional marine and wildlife photographer Amos Nachoum will show his photos of large animals from around the world, talk about the process of taking these photos, show the equipment he uses, and describe why we should care about and protect th...

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 May, 6 2008 ABSTRACT "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 29 2008 ABSTRACT Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies that have been tested and modified over billions of years. This provocative book applies lessons from nature to our own toughest security problems—from global terrorism to the rise of infectious disease to nat...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 ABSTRACT The mission of the Alice project is to increase and sustain the pipeline of computer science graduates, essential to the growth of technology in a global economy. Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment for building animations in the form of stories, games, and web-ready videos. Alice teaches programming. Alice version 2.0 is in common use....

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 5 2007 ABSTRACT Cost-effective space solar power (SSP) -- the beaming abundant high-intensity solar power from space though atmospheric windows at laser or microwave frequencies for electric power at the surface -- could be a breakthrough technology for large-scale power generation, highly flexible power distribution and sustainable carbon-neutral base load for Earth...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 7 2007 As a result of Florida 2000, some people concluded that paper ballots simply couldn't be counted, even though businesses, banks, racetracks, lottery systems, and other entities in our society count and deal with paper all the time. Instead, paperless computerized voting systems (Direct Recording Electronic or DREs) were touted as the solution to "the Florida pr...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 8, 2008 ABSTRACT What do Peeps, Catcher in the Rye and Happy Dances have in common? On Friday, YT content Hank & John Green (Brotherhood 2.0) are visiting the Chicago office. They are currently ranked #49 - Most Subscribed (All Time) - Directors in YT -- just 7 positions behind Oprah and 2 positions behind Google. The Vlog has been featured on BBC radio and the Wall Str...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 26 2008 ABSTRACT Jonathan Rosenberg is pleased to host a tech talk featuring Drs. Paul Hebert and Dan Janzen, who will discuss their transformative (and very Googley) International Barcode of Life project ( dnabarcoding.org) we hope you can find the time to attend. (For those of you not in MV, we'll send info out after the video has been posted on Moma.) If we gener...