Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger...
Google Tech Talks June 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Explore 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...
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No Time to Think
Google Tech Talks March, 5 2008 ABSTRACT Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of...
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- Length: 58:8
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Putting the Fun in Functional: Applying Game Mechanics to Functional Software
Google Tech Talks January 29, 2009 ABSTRACT In this session, we'll review the psychology and system thinking behind game design, and learn how to use game mechanics to create an experience that's fun, compelling, and addictive on the Web and mobile. We'll conclude by showcasing some cutting-edge...
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- Length: 56:21
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Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action
Google Tech Talks August 30, 2007 ABSTRACT Quicksilver 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...
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- Length: 24:44
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Google Earth, Nine Inch Nails, and Real-time Geo Community
Google Tech Talks April 28, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Craig Johnston and Brian Hull The band Nine Inch Nails recently released a ground-breaking geo-Twitter-like iPhone / Google Earth plug-in application. This follows on the heels of many creative uses of KML and Google Earth to communicate with...
Node.js: JavaScript on the Server
Google Tech Talk July 28, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Ryan Dahl, the creator of the node.JS open source project. It is well known that event loops rather than threads are required for high-performance servers. Javascript is a language unencumbered of threads and designed specifically to be used...
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- Length: 59:59
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The Bloom filter
Google Tech Talks November, 15 2007 ABSTRACT The Bloom filter, conceived by Burton H. Bloom in 1970, is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positives are possible, but false negatives are not. Elements can be added to...
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- Length: 47:40
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Seattle Conference on Scalability: CARMEN: A Scalable Scienc
Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT CARMEN is a $9M project building a scalable science cloud. Its focus is on supporting neuroscientists who will use it to store, share and analyze 100s of TBs of data. Understanding how the brain works is a major scientific challenge which will benefit...
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- Length: 27:39
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
Google Tech Talks Web Exponents presented by Doug Crockford February 27, 2009 blog post: google-code-updates.blogspot.com JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval...
Agile Technology with Lives at Stake: InSTEDD in Haiti & Beyond
Google Tech Talk June 30, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Eduardo Jezierski and Eric Rasmussen. InSTEDD, a Google.org Grantee, deployed to the Port au Prince airfield with a team from AlertNet just hours after the Haitian earthquake. Over the following days, a first-of-its-kind system was created that...
An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over 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 our software. A new generation of software...
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- Length: 55:55
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BGP at 18: Lessons In Protocol Design
Google Tech Talks April 17, 2007 ABSTRACT 18th anniversary of BGP. In this talk we examine the evolution of BGP over these 18 years, and look at the lessons we could learn from this. Dr. Yakov Rekhter joined Juniper Networks in Dec 2000, where he is a Distinguished Engineer. Prior to joining...
Coaching Series: Impactful Communication
Google Tech Talks January, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Greg Gillis and Lesly Higgins, experienced corporate coaches, will discuss and demonstrate various methods to effectively communicate; whether it is delivering a yearly review to a fellow Googler, developing your group's strategic vision, or influencing...
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- Length: 55:40
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CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
Google Tech Talks March, 3 2008 ABSTRACT Introduction Project mission statement, history, internal organization, partners, CGAL in numbers. What's in CGAL A survey on available data structures and algorithms, as well as examples how and by whom they are used. Topics include Triangulations,...
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- Length: 54:59
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The Go Programming Language
Google Tech Talks October 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Rob Pike What is Go? Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is...
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- Length: 59:26
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Ocean Wave Energy
Google Tech Talks November 8, 2006 ABSTRACT The World Energy Council has estimated the 'useful' global ocean wave energy resource as 2TW (17500TWh/year). From this it has been estimated (Thorpe 1999) that the practical economic contribution from wave energy converters could be 2000TWh/year...
Mobiles, The Digital Divide, And Google
Google Tech Talks January 17, 2007 ABSTRACT If you've enjoyed Hal's talks and emails on how economic theory can help make sense of various financial phenomenon around us from the US real estate bubble to zero-coupon bonds; come listen to Prof. Waverman from the London Business School talk about...
Tango EV Electric Sports Car
Google Tech Talks July 18, 2006 ABSTRACT Before there was the Wrightspeed X-1, there was the Tesla prototype. Before the Tesla, there was the Tango - the first 0-60 in 4 seconds electric sports car that you can actually buy. Credits: Speaker:Rick Woodbury
Becoming a Software Testing Expert
Google TechTalks June 13, 2006 James Bach I 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...
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.
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"If It Feels Good Do It" : Using Neuromarketing to Go Beyond
Google Tech Talk June 8, 2009 ABSTRACT "If It Feels Good Do It" : Using Neuromarketing to Go Beyond Click-Through: the Emerging Understanding of the Links Between Biometric Measures and Consumer Response to Media, presented by André Marquis. Advances in neuromarketing over the past decade have...
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- Length: 49:15
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A New Way to look at Networking
Google Tech Talks August 30, 2006 Van Jacobson is a Research Fellow at PARC. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and co-founder of Packet Design. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist at Cisco. Prior to that he was head of the Network Research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He's...
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- Length: 81:19
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GTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications
Google Tech Talks October 24, 2008 ABSTRACT GTAC 2008: Automated Model-Based Testing of Web Applications The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Atif M. Memon Speaker: Oluwaseun Akinmade
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- Length: 47:44
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Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Wiring Hacker Synapses
Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex Wiring Hacker Synapses: Collaborative Coding and Team Tooling in Eclipse by Scott Lewis, Composent & Mustafa K. Isik ECF is a communication framework and an increasing set of integrated tools. ECF provides APIs useful for the...
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- Length: 47:55
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Human Computation
Google TechTalks July 26, 2006 Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. Previously, Luis obtained a BS in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He is the recipient of a Microsoft Research...
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- Length: 51:34
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Google Personal Growth Series: Mindsight: The New Science of
Google Tech Talks April 22, 2009 ABSTRACT This interactive talk will examine two major questions: What is the mind? and How can we create a healthy mind? We'll examine the interactions among the mind, the brain, and human relationships and explore ways to create a healthy mind, an integrated...
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
Google Tech Talks January 24, 2007 ABSTRACT Every day around the world, software developers spend much of their time working with a variety of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Some are integral to the core platform, some provide access to widely distributed frameworks, and some are...
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Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: The Java Memory...
Google Tech Talks March 21, 2007 ABSTRACT This talk describes the Java Memory Model and how it affects the ways concurrent software should be written. Recent changes to the memory model, which were incorporated into JDK 5, redefined the semantics of threads, synchronization, volatile variables,...
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- Length: 57:22
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jQuery
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...
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- Length: 60:37
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"The Clean Code Talks -- Unit Testing"
Google Tech Talks October, 30 2008 ABSTRACT Clean Code Talks - Unit Testing Speaker: Misko Hevery
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- Length: 32:8
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JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby
Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 Speaker: Ola Bini I 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...
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- Length: 71:16
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Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
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...
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- Length: 49:25
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GTAC 2008: Using Cloud Computing to Automate Full-Scale System Tests
Google Tech Talks October 23, 2008 ABSTRACT GTAC 2008: Using Cloud Computing to Automate Full-Scale System Tests The Third Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), Seattle, WA, Oct. 23rd and 24th. Speaker: Marc-Elian Begin
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- Length: 47:39
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Turing's Cathedral
Google Tech Talks April, 9 2008 ABSTRACT New Light on the Dawn of Digital Computing, 1945-1958 The digital universe consists of two kinds of bits: differences in space and differences in time. Digital computers translate between these two forms of information--structure and sequence--according to...
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- Length: 68:8
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Liquid Fluoride Reactors: A New Beginning for an Old Idea
Google Tech Talks February 19, 2009 ABSTRACT Slides for this talk are available at: www.slideshare.net Speaker: David LeBlanc David's Ph.d in physics was completed at University of Ottawa (1998) on high temperature superconductors. During this period, he developed a great interest to pursue both...
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- Length: 67:16
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Efficient, Secrecy-Preserving, Provably Correct Computation (and Some Cool Ap...
Google Tech Talks July, 21 2008 ABSTRACT Cryptography is now much more than keeping credit card numbers safe from packet sniffers and laptop thieves. We combine several advances in cryptography theory to construct a model of computation in which a third party securely performs computations for a...
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- Length: 71:25
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High Performance Web Sites and YSlow
Google Tech Talks November 13, 2007 ABSTRACT Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use...
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- Length: 60:34
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I had a heart attack!
Google Tech Talks October 30, 2008 ABSTRACT Go through the symptoms, intervention procedure, medication and recovery from a patient's perspective. Show highlights from 2 catheterization procedures and all that I was involved. Speaker: Caio Villela I had a heart attack on Sep 9th, the whole...
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- Length: 43:33
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Artist Talk with Photographer Jessica Todd Harper
Google Tech Talks December, 12 2008 ABSTRACT Jessica Todd Harper makes otherworldly photographic portraits of families and individuals that bring to mind both the religious intensity of Northern Renaissance artists and the quiet eroticism and tenderness of Andrew Wyeth's Helga pictures. She...
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- Length: 56:44
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