Descripción: Google TechTalks July 13, 2006 Bay Area Python Interest Group http://baypiggies.net/ Topic: Emacs Presenter: Marylin Davis Marilyn Davis is the Python Instructor at UCSC-Extension. She is the lead developer at Maildance.com and Deliberate.com. Topic: Vim Presenter: Keith Dart Keith Dart works in QA automation and is the primary developer of the PyNMS network application framework. Topic: Xc...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March 21, 2007 ABSTRACT Photographic Technology Day 9: This session covers amateur astrophotography, particularly automation, gear (cameras, telescopes) and some of the technical challenges of photographing dim objects across the universe from your backyard or remote observatory. Credits: Speaker:Ben Lutch

Descripción: Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Dave Astels Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over 2 decades of experience in the software field, most of that involved with object-oriented technologies and techniques. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, evangelising, and coaching XP an...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 22, 2007 ABSTRACT One of the main goals of astrobiology is the search for another type of life in our solar system. The planet Mars, Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, and Enceladus one of the moons of Saturn, are the most likely targets for this search. With only one example of life on Earth it is not too surprising that we lack a precise definition of life or a clear st...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March 27, 2007 ABSTRACT The relation between Google and the free software movement is one of the most important diplomatic relationships in the 21st century. But it is largely invisible, even to the principals. In this talk I will try and make some of what we have taken for granted less implicit, so we can progress with mutual confidence and collective security. Speaker: Eben ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October 17, 2006 David Brin Sheldon Brown ABSTRACT Western Civilization famously changed everything with innovations like market economics, democracy, education and science -- methods that empowered millions to compete, cooperate and invent as never before. Only, accelerating change also means that we must now adapt faster than ever, just to stay even. Some believe this will ha...

Descripción: http://live.pirillo.com - Ignite is a series of geek nights in Seattle. It is hosted by Brady Forrest of O'Reilly Radar and Bre Pettis of Make. The nights combine a Make contest and a series of fast-paced, short-form tech talks.

Descripción: Google Tech Talks July 31, 2007 ABSTRACT Software developers usually confine themselves to working entirely within the runtime environment of a computer just pushing around bits and pixels. Even virtual worlds such as Second Life exist only in the confines of our CPUs. On the other hand, hardware hacking has really taken off in recent years and there are now magazines such as MAKE devoted to mo...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February 21, 2007 ABSTRACT Getting initialization right is an important part of programming. Over the years, this has led to a mess of language facilities and techniques. This talk describes how C++0x (most likely) will address two issues: how to get a uniform syntax and semantics for all initialization and how to allow initialization by general lists. Obviously, people will wa...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April 12, 2007 ABSTRACT The mission of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) movement is to ensure that every school-aged child in the lesser-developed parts of the world is able to engage effectively with their own personal laptop, networked to the world, so that they, their families and their communities can openly learn and learn about learning. The OLPC Association focuses on de...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November 8, 2006 ABSTRACT The term Web services carries the connotation of (slowly) doing RPC over SOAP. While many original SOAP toolkits supported and promoted that model (including Apache SOAP which I created), that is not at all what Web services are about. Apache's history with Web services has seen three generations of efforts: Apache SOAP, Apache Axis and now Apache Axis2...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 19, 2006 ABSTRACT SVG is an XML vector graphics standard that is gaining momentum on the web. It is supported by most browsers (IE with a plug-in) and fills a need for vector graphics in the high resolution environments that webpages are finding themselves in while still providing graphics rich experiences to mobile users with smaller file sizes. This talk will go into t...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 18, 2007 ABSTRACT Wondering why developers are talking about Salesforce.com and Appexchange? What's the big deal? Software for sales teams? Big whoop? Salesforce.com has pioneered a business application development and delivery model and they have proven it to the tune of thousands of business customers of all sizes who swear by them. And why do developers care? Beca...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 25, 2007 ABSTRACT Simon Willison OpenID is an emerging standard that provides simple, decentralised authentication for the Web. OpenID follows the Unix philosophy, solving one small problem rather than attempting to tackle the many larger challenges posed by online identity. This talk will explore the implications of OpenID, and explore the best practices required to take ...

Descripción: Google TechTalks January 25, 2006 Peter Patel-Schneider http://www-db.research.bell-labs.com/user/pfps/ ABSTRACT The Semantic Web has been attracting considerable attention the last few years. From the point of view of Knowledge Representation, the Semantic Web affords opportunities for both research and application. However, several aspects of the Semantic Web, as it has been envisioned, cause...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February 28, 2007 ABSTRACT Photographic Technology EDU Day 6: In this session we examine the steps that a digital camera goes through to take raw data from an image sensor and make a photograph out of it. There are more steps than you might imagine, arranged in what is usually termed a pipeline, and is sometimes implemented on pipelined hardware, to get to a pleasing photograph...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 15, 2007 ABSTRACT Bryan Cantrill will discuss the Dtrace and how it can be used to significantly improve debugging both for development and live systems. Credits: Speaker:Bryan Cantrill

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November 7, 2006 ABSTRACT The Scala Experiment -- Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems? Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. In this talk, I give an introduction to Scala and demonstrate how it helps solving some hard problems in the construction of com...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 8, 2007 ABSTRACT Algorithms such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have achieved significant progress in modeling word document relationships. These algorithms assume each word in the document was generated by a hidden topic and explicitly model the word distribution of each topic as well as the prior distribution over topics in the document. Given these parameters, t...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 10, 2007 ABSTRACT David Weinberger's new book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categoreis at once, and search them in many ways. This is no dry book on taxonomy, but has the insight and wit you'd expect from the author of The Clue...