Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Ant colonies operate without central control; there is no one in charge and no ant directs the behavior of others. Colonies perform many tasks including foraging, nest construction, and care of the young. Task allocation is the process that adjusts the numbers of workers performing each task, according to the current situation. How do colonies get ants t...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 15, 2008 ABSTRACT We seek to build a large collection of images with ground truth labels to be used for object detection and recognition research. We used the "Tom Sawyer fence painting" approach, and developed a web-based tool that allows easy image annotation and instant sharing of such annotations. Using this annotation tool, we have collected a large dataset that spa...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 11 2007 ABSTRACT An overview of the field of market design Speaker: Al Roth Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 6 2007 ABSTRACT Millions of diagnostic 3D radiological scans (such as MRI and CT) are performed in the US each year. Chances are that you or a family member will receive such a scan during your lifetime. In all likelihood, the scan will be interpreted by a radiologist in less than 11 minutes (abdomen), 10 minutes (chest), or 4 minutes (brain), after which the data wi...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 23 2007 ABSTRACT Seattle Conference on Scalability: June 23, 2007 We care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn't cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to talk about big ideas, so we're planning our first ever conference on scalable systems. O...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex How Mylyn Changes the Way I Develop by Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation Mylyn is an Eclipse project that gives tasks first-class status in the developer workspace. In this presentation Bjorn will show how task focused programming simplifies his (developer) life. Mylyn makes it easier for him to maintain focu...

Descripción: Will Pomerantz and Brett Alexander give a talk at Google's DC headquarters about the Google Lunar X PRIZE.

Descripción: Google Tech Talks May, 7 2008 ABSTRACT The way most organizations think and work on products and services isn't suited to the unpredictable world we live in. Instead, companies need new ways of thinking and working to adapt into innovative, agile, and commercially successful organizations who creates great products and services. Three authors of Adaptive Path's new book, Subject to Change, shar...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Recent technical developments have inspired an interest in 'digital memories': repositories for capturing our entire personal history of personal and work related information that will substitute for our fragile organic memories. I will first review the Digital Memories vision, briefly present various studies that challenge that vision, moving on to sugg...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June, 19 2008 ABSTRACT Digital tools for annotation of video have the promise to provide immense value to researchers in disciplines ranging from psychology to computer science to ethnography. With the traditional methods for annotation being cumbersome, time-consuming, and frustrating, technological solutions are situated to aid in video annotation by increasing reliability, r...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks October, 18 2007 ABSTRACT The world of open source software (OSS) is a social system, and all such socialities are based on particular assumptions. The everyday life of OSS has been explained in terms of a gift-economy, a complex system based on the cyclic exchange of gifts and reciprocity. Though, when you start looking closer at the daily practice of OSS it becomes increasing...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 12 2007 ABSTRACT Please welcome Håkon Lie and Michael Day, who will be presenting Prince XML. Prince Overview: Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS. Dynamic data-driven documents: Prince is an ideal prin...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks January, 31 2008 ABSTRACT Being creative and successful in business and your personal lives requires that you be responsive and flexible as you move beyond your comfort zones. Though it may seem paradoxical, all real change and creativity begins by facing and understanding the reality of your current situation. Learning to see and respond with greater clarity is wh...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks December, 18 2007 Volcanoes are some of the most dynamic and visually spectacular natural features on the Earth's surface. In Alaska, volcanoes are an intrinsic part of the landscape and culture, with over 70 volcanoes and volcanic fields that have been active in historic time. Monitoring of these volcanoes is undertaken by the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) using a suite of m...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks April, 7 2008 ABSTRACT Mark Templer is the CEO of the HOPE Foundation, India Mission statement: Bringing hope. Changing Lives. Vision: Our vision is simple: to bring hope to those with none and to change the lives of everyone we come into contact with - our donors, volunteers, staff, NGO partners, government, and the poor whom we serve. HOPE foundation is a compassionate b...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March, 11 2008 ABSTRACT Many users really want to find objects rather than pages. In the past few years, there has been significant progress in research in machine learning methods for information extraction (IE). I'll describe some of this progress, with a focus on recent machine learning advances in entity resolution and schema matching---with the combination of logical claus...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks August 13, 2008 ABSTRACT Contrary to popular belief, current unabridged dictionaries contain only a small fraction of all the words in English. This is primarily because it costs money for a publisher to include a word in a dictionary, and therefore the publisher includes only words that will be "valuable" in some sense to the dictionary purchaser. As publishing moves increasin...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks November, 2 2007 ABSTRACT Does Web 2.0 represent a triumph of the wisdom of crowds, or the tyranny of mediocrity? The truth--as truths often do--may fall somewhere in the middle. New tools have indeed allowed access to new ideas, voices, and expertise. But at the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. In education, the shift from &quo...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks March, 7 2008 ABSTRACT The world has evolved a long way from the Stone Age to the Iron age, and we are now in the new age of engineered materials. Today's discussion will focus in the realm of advanced ceramics, materials that aren't typically found in nature and can withstand extreme conditions. These materials are being used to stop bullets, enable diesel engines to run more...

Descripción: Google Tech Talks June 9, 2008 ABSTRACT Multi-touch is a new way of human computer interaction, which recognizes multiple simultaneous touch points, as opposed to the standard touchscreen, which recognizes only one touch point at a time. There are many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices, however with the introduction of Apple iPho...