Larry Page Google AAAS Plenary Lecture on: Google Video Larry Page discusses the key role of science in economic progress, discusses the need for science to market itself better, motivating kids through science, and touches on prospects for progress in key scientific areas.
Hans Reiser Namesys The Reiser4 Filesystem on: Google TechTalks The ReiserFS project aims to add support for semi-structured data querying to the filesystem namespace. Reiser4 is the storage layer for this. It stores all files in a dancing (not balanced)tree, and is currently the overall fastest filesystem for traditional filesystem usage patterns.
Bill Stone Leader, US Deep Caving Team Journey Towards the Center of the Earth on: Google TechTalks While truly known only to a handful of teams worldwide, the last -- and arguably the most technologically and psychologically challenging -- terrestrial frontier is being systematically explored in our time: that of extraordinarily deep cave systems. And, like the original exploration of the Poles, and the race to climb Everest, there is a quiet, yet spirited competition now to explore the once-and-for-all-time deepest natural abyss on Earth.
Documents, Data and People: World Wide Webs on: This talk will look at the design and growth of the World Wide Web, at the weblike connections between people, and toward a future of a web of machine-readable knowledge.
Gregor Kiczales University of British Columbia Aspect Oriented Programming: Radical Research in Modularity on: Google TechTalks Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is based on a radical exploration of modularity in software development. By presenting new mechanisms that enable better modularization in a number of systems, AOP is driving us to ask fundamental questions about what modularity should mean in our field. In the past, we have tended to think of modularity in terms of hierarchies of crisply defined blocks, where each block or module defines its interface with the surrounding modules.
XML11: An Abstract Windowing Protocol on: Google TechTalks This presentation introduces XML11, an abstract windowing protocol inspired by the X11-protocol develop by MIT. XML11 is an XML-based protocol that allows asynchronous UI updates of widgets to an end-device. To overcome high-latency connections, XML11 allows migration of application logic to the end-device.
Barry Schwartz Swarthmore College The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less on: Google Video Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice. In this talk, he persuasively explains how and why the abundance of choice in modern society is actually making us miserable.
Richard Murray California Institute of Technology Richard Murray: The DARPA Grand Challenge on: Caltech Richard Murray, professor of mechanical engineering, discussed the DARPA Grand Challenge desert road race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas that took place in March. Caltech undergraduates modified a 1996 Chevy Tahoe, nicknamed Bob, to autonomously drive the 250-mile course in 10 hours or less for the $1 million grand prize.
Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux on: Google TechTalks An overview of Ubuntu Linux given by Mark Shuttleworth at the Ubuntu Linux Developers Summit.
Jen Fitzpatrick Google The Science and Art of User Experience at Google on: Google Video Focus on the user and all else will follow. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. Jen Fitzpatrick will take you through the art and science behind Google's design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together in Google's unique culture to create great products.
Conputer says no: The social aspects of computer misuse on: sciencelive Computer says no: the social aspects of computer misuse A lecture by Stefan Fafinski, University of Leeds, UK Zombies, botnets, Trojans, worms, viruses, phishing, spam and justplain hacking. Alongside the benefits to society, the growth in computing power and availability has broughta new and expanding world of computer misuse which is often (wrongly) thought of as computer crime. Why do individuals commit computer misuse?
35th Anniversary of the Intel(r) 4004 Microprocessor on: The Computer History Museum and the Intel Museum invite you to mark the 35th anniversary of one of the most important products in technology history. Introduced in November 1971, the Intel(r) 4004 microprocessor was an early and significant commercial product to embody computer architecture within a silicon device. And it started an electronics revolution that changed our world.
Roger Stettner Advanced Scientific Concepts A Live Motion Portable 3D Video Camera on: Google TechTalks Advanced Scientific Concepts has developed a 3D camera unlike any other in existence. At video frame rates (30Hz) their solid-state flash LADAR system is able to simultaneously measure the distance to every point in the scene by recording the time-of-flight of a laser pulse. At full speed the camera collects 500,000 range points per second using a 1.57um eye-safe laser that has been successfully tested at distances greater than 5km.The entire system is the size of a shoebox and weighs only 12 pounds.
Clay Shirky New York University Clay Shirky, Making Digital Durable - Seminars About Long Term Thinking on: Google Video "THIS is what the Internet has been straining to become," said Clay Shirky Monday night, both joking and meaning it. He was referring to a category ("tag") which emerged from users on the photo-sharing site Flickr. The category is "cats in sinks."...Shirky pointed out that "cats in sinks" has none of the limitations of former category systems such as the Dewey Decimal System or the Library of Congress scheme or Yahoo's hierarchical category structure. There is no need for a category "cats" with subcategory "in sinks," nor a category "sinks" with subcategory "cats in".
Team Server - Collaborate with Pleasure! Ajax Development with IntelliJ IDEA on: Google TechTalks The first presentation is completely dedicated to our new product Team Server, which has to bring to the whole team the same level of productivity as IDEA does for the individual developer. We will talk about continuous integration, server-side code analysis, peer-to-peer collaboration, and many other interesting things. The second presentation is dedicated to a lot of new and cool stuff in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 related to Java.
Jim Nickerson APCT Energy Crisis Management - new ultracapacitor technology on: Google TechTalks A new ultracapacitor technology from APCT (US-Ukrainian start-up) provides an efficient, low cost means of managing power delivery for applications ranging from hand held devices to hybrid vehicles and power generating systems of all types. When integrated into battery powered devices, the APCT technology can extend battery life by as much as 400%, lowering the cost of batteries and reducing hazardous waste streams.
Pioneers of Venture Capital on: Nothing ventured. Nothing Gained...How did the venture capital industry get started in Silicon Valley? Why here and not elsewhere? How has it changed? How has it stayed the same? What were the key milestones, the big obstacles, and lessons learned? Join us as we investigate the personal stories of an incredible array of pioneering power brokers in this amazing industry.
Erik Winfree California Institute of Technology Universality of Computation on: Caltech Dr. Erik Winfree, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Caltech, presented this lecture as part of the 0.1 Seminar series. He talks about how the study of computation is among the most fundamental intellectual developments of the 20th century, and how it met with a number of dramatic surprises regarding the universality of computation, which created new connections throughout the sciences, including physics and biology.
Michael Rabin Harvard University Hyper-Encryption by Virtual Satellite on: Harvard University Michael Rabin, the T.J. Watson, Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, confronts the failure of computer systems to provide network security and, as a solution, presents the theory of hyper-encryption.
Jim Fruchterman Benetech Universally Accessible Demands Accessibility for All of Humanity on: Google Video Google serves a minority of humanity reasonably well today. How is Google going to fulfill its mission to deliver the world's information usefully and universally? Character recognition and accessibility pioneer Jim Fruchterman presents his quest to make information accessible to the long tail of humanity (which stillincludes most of the 'bulge!' From inventing omnifont character recognition and affordable reading machines for the blind to creating accessible digital libraries for the blind and using technology to teach literacy to people who have fallen through society's cracks, Jim will cover the technical and practical challenges to reaching all of humanity with accessible information.
