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• Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger...Google Tech TalksJune 16, 2008ABSTRACTExplore 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 way that both scientists and people with no scientific background can appreciate.This is opportunity to learn more about how our minds work—and to find out more about the latest in cutting-edge brain research, from the founder of Posit Science and creator of the Brain Fitness Program software, Dr. Michael Merzenich.Speaker: Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D.Michael M. Merzenich, PhD: Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Merzenich leads the company's scientific team. For more than three decades, Dr. Merzenich has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. He is the Francis A. Sooy Professor at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at UCSF. Dr. Merzenich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Ipsen Prize, Zulch Prize of the Max Planck Institute, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and Purkinje Medal. Dr. Merzenich has published more than 200 articles, including many in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Science and Nature. His work is also often covered in the popular press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek. He has appeared on Sixty Minutes II, CBS Evening News and Good Morning America. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant, now distributed by market leader Advanced Bionics. In 1996, Dr. Merzenich was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), which markets and distributes software that applies principles of brain plasticity to assist children with language learning and reading. He is an inventor on more than 50 patents. Dr. Merzenich earned his BS degree at the University of Portland and his PhD at Johns Hopkins.
• Ocean Wave EnergyGoogle Tech TalksNovember 8, 2006ABSTRACTThe World Energy Council has estimated the 'useful' global ocean wave energy resource as 2TW (17,500TWh/year). From this it has been estimated (Thorpe 1999) that the practical economic contribution from wave energy converters could be 2,000TWh/year (similar to current installed nuclear or hydroelectric generation capacity). Such generating capacity could result in up to 2 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions being displaced from fossil fuel generation per year - similar to current emissions from electricity generation in the US.Formed in 1998, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ocean Power Delivery Ltd has developed the 'Pelamis' wave energy converter...
• Quicksilver: Universal Access and ActionGoogle Tech TalksAugust 30, 2007ABSTRACTQuicksilver hides almost unbounded power beneath the interface of a keyboard-driven launcher. Using a basic grammatical model, it allows you to move beyond basic search and work effortlessly with applications, data, and the web. Quickilver is above all a prototype intended to explore new forms of interaction.In this talk, we will explore the motivation behind Quicksilver, highlights of its implementation, lessons learned from its design, and the ways it might inform the future of navigation for the desktop and the web.Speaker: Nicholas Jitkoff Credits: Speaker:Nicholas Jitkoff
• Gapminder.orgGoogle TechTalksMarch 7, 2006Ola RoslingAnna Rosling RönnlundJohan Nystrand
• Becoming a Software Testing ExpertGoogle TechTalksJune 13, 2006James BachI work with project teams and individual engineers to help them plan SQA, change control, and testing processes that allow them to understand and control the risks of product failure. Most of my experience is with market-driven Silicon Valley software companies like Apple Computer and Borland, so the techniques I've gathered and developed are designed for use under conditions of compressed schedules, high rates of change, component-based technology, and poor specification. ABSTRACTYou're already an experienced tester. You know how to design tests and report bugs. Now what? Do you feel like an expert? Unfortunately, if you want to become very good at...
• An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the FutureGoogle Tech TalksJanuary, 25 2008ABSTRACTIn this talk we examine how high performance computing has changedover the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends.These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on oursoftware. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms areneeded for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic,distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software andalgorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as managementof communication and memory hierarchies through a combination ofcompile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale ofcomputation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, andincreased run--time environment variability will make these problemsmuch harder.We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures.Speaker: Jack DongarraUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge National LaboratoryUniversity of ManchesterJack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
• Social RecommendationsGoogle Tech TalksApril, 10 2008ABSTRACTSocial Recommendations will change both the lens through which we see the world as well as the manner in which we experience it. Everything from the media that we consume to the events we attend will be influenced by hyper-relevant results delivered through hierarchical social relationships. This talk demonstrates current efforts to integrate social relationships into recommended user experience including SoMR, the Social Media Recommendation API.Speaker: Dan CarrollDan is the Director of the SoMR (Social Media Recommendation) project and the CEO of imp, the Intelligent Media Platform. Dan has worked in magazine and book publishing, labor organizing, and at a public policy think tank. He holds a patent in digital media distribution and writes the blog www.mediapatron.com. Dan lives in Mountain View, California and serves on the boards of Echolocations and InRadio.
• Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: GWT in EclipseGoogle Tech TalksJune 24, 2008ABSTRACTEclipse Day at the GoogleplexSpeaker: Bruce Johnson, GoogleBuilding high-performance Ajax easily with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in Eclipse has always been possible, but soon it will be downright easy. Bruce will present GWT's upcoming Eclipse plugin that helps novices get started and lets experts fly.
• HealthMap: Digital Disease DetectionGoogle Tech TalksAugust 19, 2008ABSTRACTHealthMap: Digital Disease Detection.Speaker: John Brownstein PhDSpeaker: Clark FreifeldSpeaker: Mikaela Keller PhD
• Columbia Alumni Event 2008: Protecting the World from CybercrimeGoogle Tech TalksAugust 28, 2008ABSTRACTSince 2005, over 230 million customer records have been lost or stolen in security breaches, and data breaches are at an all-time high in large part due to increased reliance on electronically stored files. Should you be concerned about the security of your personal information on the Internet and with the issue of online fraud? Do you wonder what could be done to help secure the web and our cyber-infrastructure? Come hear compelling stories about some of the most significant cyber-attacks over the past few years and what can be done to protect the world against rampant cybercrime and mass identify theft.Speaker: Dr. Neil Daswani
• "The Clean Code Talks -- Unit Testing"Google Tech TalksOctober, 30 2008ABSTRACTClean Code Talks - Unit TestingSpeaker: Misko Hevery
• Theory and Practice of CryptographyGoogle Tech TalksNovember, 28 2007Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in CryptographyThis talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pmSpeaker: Steve WeisSteve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster.
• SV-WEB-JUG: Spring 2.5 and Spring Application PlatformGoogle Tech TalksAugust 19, 2008ABSTRACTThe Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/ hosts Rod Johnson at Google on August 18th 2008. Rod speaks about Spring 2.5 and Spring Application Platform.Speaker: Rod Johnson
• Micro Concentrated Solar Power from Sopogy - a green energy seminarGoogle Tech TalksSeptember 18, 2008ABSTRACTSopogy is bringing smaller concentrated solar energy systems to the market: Process heat, air conditioning, and power generation. You will hear about the first renewable energy and solar technology to ever be awarded the New Product of the Year by the Society of Professional Engineers. A product will be set up for viewing.Speaker: Al Yuen
• JRuby: The power of Java and RubyGoogle Tech TalksFebruary, 28 2008Speaker: Ola BiniI work for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I'm very interested in Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Ruby and the fuzzy lines between languages...
• Theory and Practice of CryptographyGoogle Tech TalksDecember, 19 2007Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in CryptographyThis talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pmSpeaker: Steve WeisSteve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster.
• The Clean Code Talks - "Global State and Singletons"Google Tech TalksNovember 13, 2008ABSTRACTThe Clean Code Talk SeriesSpeaker: Misko Hevery
• GTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte ScaleGoogle Tech TalksOctober 23, 2008ABSTRACTGTAC 2008: The New Genomics - Software Development at Petabyte ScaleThe Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th.Speaker: Matt Wood
• Google IPv6 Conference 2008: What will the IPv6 Internet look like?Google Tech TalksJanuary, 29 2008ABSTRACTPanel discussion on What will the IPv6 Internet look like?Speaker: Panel Discussion
• Larry Wall Speaks at GoogleGoogle Tech TalksJune 19, 2008ABSTRACTWhile visiting Chicago for Yet Another Perl Conference, Larry Wall will be visiting the Chicago Google office to speak about the conference, the language, and the community.Speaker: Larry Wall
• Silicon Valley JUG: Applying the Asynchronous WebGoogle Tech TalksOctober 21, 2008ABSTRACTEmerging Ajax techniques--variously called Ajax Push, Comet, Reverse Ajax, and HTTP streaming--are bringing revolutionary changes to web application interactivity, moving the web into the Participation Age. Join us for a detailed introduction to the asynchronous web, covering the underlying protocols and APIs, the challenges for application servers, and the high-level techniques available to application developers. The techniques covered will allow you to add multiuser collaboration and notification features to your application, whether developed with Dojo, DWR, or ICEfaces, and whether deployed on Jetty, Tomcat, or GlassFish.Speaker: Ted GoddardSpeaker: Jean-Francois Arcand
• Faculty Summit 2008 Day 1: Computing at ScaleGoogle Tech TalksJuly 24, 2008ABSTRACTFaculty Summit 2008 - Day 1Computing at Scale: Challenges & Opportunities - Urs Hoelzle, Rob Pike, Ed Lazowska, & Jeannette WingThe frontiers of computer science are being increasingly impacted by computing at very large scale: that is on very large scale computing systems (perhaps in the cloud) with possibly significant dependence on large scale data sets and/or on systems with shared use by vast populations. This panel will explore the potential opportunities and challenges in computer science research in this space.Speakers: Urs Hoelzle, Rob Pike, Ed Lazowska, & Jeannette Wing
• KML, EarthBrowser and the virtual globe as a platformGoogle Tech TalksJuly, 15 2008ABSTRACTKML is the default language of virtual globes, however it only delivers static data with pre-set rules of behavior. Using EarthBrowser as an example, new ideas for creating, presenting and controlling earth based information will be explored.http://www.earthbrowser.com/http://www.jskml.org/Speaker: Matt GigerMatt Giger is the founder of Lunar Software and creator of EarthBrowser. Matt was born and has lived in Oregon for most of his life. He received a B.A in Physics from Reed College, B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from CalTech and a M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Oregon.
• Incompleteness: A Personal PerspectiveGoogle Tech TalksNovember 4, 2008ABSTRACTOur aim is to present a personal view of Gdel's incompleteness. We will focus on interesting/natural concrete independent sentences, on the source of incompleteness, and on how common the incompleteness phenomenon is. Some open questions will be briefly stated.Speaker: Cristian CaludeA lifelong researcher in algorithmic information theory and a close friend of Gregory Chaitin, Dr. Calude has written and edited dozens of books and hundreds of articles on computability and incompleteness.
• "The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"Google Tech TalksNovember 20, 2008ABSTRACTIs your code full of if statements? Switch statements? Do you have the same switch statement in various places? When you make changes do you find yourself making the same change to the same if/switch in several places? Did you ever forget one?This talk will discuss approaches to using Object Oriented techniques to remove many of those conditionals. The result is cleaner, tighter, better designed code that's easier to test, understand and maintain.Speaker: Misko Hevery
• GTAC 2008: Context-Driven Test Automation - How to Build the System You Reall...Google Tech TalksOctober 24, 2008ABSTRACTGTAC 2008: Context-Driven Test Automation - How to Build the System You Really NeedThe Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th.Speaker: Pete Schneider
• Cognitive Technology on a Mobile PlatformGoogle Tech TalksMay, 27 2008ABSTRACTMobile devices have great potential to increase independence for people with cognitive disabilities. Besides basic communication, which is itself very important, key features include location awareness, which can be used to help with public transportation, and remote management, which allows a caregiver to manage content, such as schedule information, on a user's device. A recent projects course at the University of Colorado developed promising prototypes on the Android platform, and suggested useful platform enhancements, especially relating to speech technology.Speaker: Clayton Lewis
• Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Wiring Hacker SynapsesGoogle Tech TalksJune 24, 2008ABSTRACTEclipse Day at the GoogleplexWiring Hacker Synapses: Collaborative Coding and Team Tooling in Eclipseby Scott Lewis, Composent & Mustafa K. IsikECF is a communication framework and an increasing set of integrated tools. ECF provides APIs useful for the development of Equinox-based servers, RCP applications, and Eclipse-based development tools. The provider architecture supports the use of existing communications services, such as Google Talk and UI integration with web-based services, and other Eclipse-based tools. For example, for the upcoming Ganymede release, ECF is working on real-time shared editing of source code to support distributed team use cases like code reviews and collaborative debugging.
• Faculty Summit 2008 Day 1: Power and Green ComputingGoogle Tech TalksJuly 24, 2008ABSTRACTFaculty Summit 2008 - Day 1Power and Green Computing - Bill WeihlGoogle continues to grow, and the infrastructure that underpins that growth depends on electricity. We will discuss a number of the challenges and opportunities in making our infrastructure greener. How can we make our servers and data centers more energy efficient? How can we reduce the environmental impact of the energy that we do consume?Speaker: Bill Weihl
• GTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web ApplicationsGoogle Tech TalksOctober 24, 2008ABSTRACTGTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web ApplicationsThe Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th.Speaker: Atif M. MemonSpeaker: Oluwaseun Akinmade

Poker Teaches

Google Tech TalksNovember, 29 2007Want to learn about how Texas Hold'Em can be more than just a game?Come hear Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson and Harvard Law student Andrew Woods talk about the ways that poker can be used as a powerful tool for teaching core negotiation and business skills. Professor Nesson is the founder of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), an organization focused on developing an academic curriculum using poker as a teaching tool. Professor Nesson and Mr. Woods believe that poker can be used to teach important life skills such as game theory, strategic thinking, risk assessment, and money management in an engaging and interactive way.Speaker: Prof. Charles NessonCharles Nesson was born in 1939. He is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (a research center which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace) and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. He is author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the Supreme Court, including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case. He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W.R. Grace that was made into the film A Civil Action.Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, and then Harvard Law School where he joined the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude. Nesson was a law clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the US Supreme Court, 1965 term. He then worked as a special assistant in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. His first case, White v. Crook, made race and gender-based jury selection in Alabama unconstitutional. Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.

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