Descripción: Google Tech Talks July 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Faculty Summit 2008 - Day 1 Geo API - Keith Golden One of the keys to the success of Google Maps is a rich API that can be used by outside developers and researchers to create interactive applications and mashups. There are over 150,000 active Maps API websites representing a broad range of applications from Earth science to social networking. The ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 7 2007 ABSTRACT Dealing with sound in Wine Maarten Lankhorst gave a talk about DirectSound: * OSS * ALSA * Stream mixer * Improvements to the stream mixer * Remaining work Speaker: Maarten Lankhorst

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 25 2007 ABSTRACT Video is rapidly becoming a regular part of our digital lives. However, its tremendous growth is increasing expectations that video will be as easy to search as text. Unfortunately, it is still difficult to find relevant video content. And today's solutions are not keeping pace on problems ranging from video search to content classification to automati...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 5 2008 ABSTRACT The Linux Kernel, who is developing it, how they are doing it, and why you should care. This talk describes the rate of development for the Linux kernel, and how the development model is set up to handle such a large and diverse developer population and huge rate of change. It will detail who is doing the work, and what companies, if any, are spons...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 10 2008 ABSTRACT If you have used Knoppix long enough, you have probably eventually decided you would like to tweak it to add a setting or package. Most people resort to the full remastering process--uncompressing and changing the loopback file system--and are faced with a complicated, time-consuming process. In this talk Kyle Rankin will discuss a number of different me...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 4 2008 ABSTRACT It's a question that has probably been asked by all of us. Programs are rarely perfect; we often have to find out what's wrong with them. Usually, the answer to the question involves testing. In this talk, I will review some work that I, my research team, and other researchers have done in the areas of randomized unit testing, test effectiveness measureme...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January 18, 2008 ABSTRACT Celebration of the KDE 4.0 release, a culmination of several years of design, development and testing. Speaker: Jeremy Whiting

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In February of 2008, Matt Leacock released Pandemic, a board game where players cooperate to save the world from deadly diseases that threaten to wipe out humanity. The game has been enthusiastically received, with its first printing selling out in less than a month. Matt will discuss how being an interaction designer affected the game design process as ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 1 2007 ABSTRACT Web search has generated the need and economic support for a new class of data-intensive supercomputing applications. Several computing platforms have been created to support this need: the first described in the literature is Google's MapReduce. I will describe the architecture of the Dryad system developed at Microsoft Research, and explain some of ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks February, 25 2008 ABSTRACT Caja is a type of "JavaScript sanitizer" that is being tightly integrated with OpenSocial to reduce the chance of Gadgets performing malicious actions like phishing the users or interfering with other gadgets. MySpace plans to REQUIRE gadgets to be caja-safe before they can run on their platform. For developers, the process of making their gadgets caj...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January 18, 2008 ABSTRACT Celebration of the KDE 4.0 release, a culmination of several years of design, development and testing. Speaker: Haavard Nord

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 12, 2008 ABSTRACT Come learn more about the important issues of the Caucasus region and why you should be paying attention. The Caucasus is one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse regions on Earth. The nation-states that compose the Caucasus today are the post-Soviet states Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Russian divisions include Krasnodar Krai, Sta...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 Together, Michael Thompson's gadgets reach millions of users and he's here to talk about his experiences developing them, how people use them, what works, gadget ads and more. Speaker: Michael Thompson By day, Michael Thompson is a system administrator for Gibbs, a manufacturing company in the automotive industry. By night, he's written over 90 gadgets, getti...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 8 2008 NIH awards more than $500M/yr for grants to researchers pursuing research in biomedical informatics. This includes computation, simulation, modeling, and, increasingly, work on storage, retrieval, curation, and analysis of massive amounts of data needed for biomedical research. Dr. Marron will outline the investment strategy for making awarding funds in this bro...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August, 31 2008 ABSTRACT A brief interview with Dr. Wang. Speaker: Dr. Chenxi Wang Speaker: Sundar Raghavan

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 3 2008 ABSTRACT jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands out among its competitors because it is faster, focuses on writing less code, and is very extensible. In this talk, I will explore jQuery and how to use it. I will start off talking about the basics of using jQuery. Then, I will talk about building plugins. Finally, time permitting, I will take apart s...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 26 2007 ABSTRACT In this talk we will discuss the issues involved in building industrial-strength performance tools. We first discuss the requirements for such tools, and then the issues and tradeoffs involved in compiling the targets for the tools. We then discuss data collection, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different technologies that can be used. We go o...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Adium is now a widely-known multi-protocol chat program for the Mac, but this was not always so. Beginning as a single developer's pet project to learn Cocoa, Adium has evolved considerably through its 6 year history. This talk will discuss the best features of Adium, the major milestones in Adium's development, and where it looks to be going. Speaker: Ma...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 8 2007 ABSTRACT This presentation is about a potential shortcut to artificial intelligence by trading mind-design for world-design using artificial evolution. Evolutionary algorithms are a pump for turning CPU cycles into brain designs. With exponentially increasing CPU cycles while our understanding of intelligence is almost a flat-line, the evolutionary route ...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 12 2007 ABSTRACT When you have hundreds of people simultaneously patching 25000 files of the Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways, you might need some scheme or plan to sort all that out before you can build your next kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses "git" for their source code repository management, a homegrown solution that is optimized for high...