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 had re...
6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Hugh Thompson, People Security.
Google Tech Talk (more info below) August 8, 2011 Presented by Luigi Rizzo, Universita` di Pisa ABSTRACT Software packet processing at line rate is problematic both in userspace and within the kernel, due to the cost of managing in-kernel metadata, and system calls/and data copy overhead. We pres...
Google Tech Talk May 27, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Anders Sandberg. The idea of creating a faithful, one-to-one computer copy of a human brain has been a popular philosophical thought experiment and science fiction plot for decades. While computational neuroscience and systems biology are curren...
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 inform...
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 wi...
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 r...
Google Tech Talk December 2, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Steven Wm. Fowkes. The talk will answer questions like: 1. Which nutrients promote optimal brain function? 2. What nutrients are commonly deficient enough to impair mental performance? 3. How can you get a better nights sleep without Ambien?...
Google Tech Talk (more below) March 7, 2011 Presented by Jason Scott. ABSTRACT Jason Scott will talk about making the documentary and we'll be screening some portion of the film. www.getlamp.com In the early years of the microcomputer, a special kind of game was being played. With limited sound, ...
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 ...
Google Tech Talk (more info below) June 6, 2011 Presented by Hadley Wickham, Assistant Professor, Dobelman Family Junior Chair, Department of Statistics, Rice University. ABSTRACT Data analysis, the process of converting data into knowledge, insight and understanding, is a critical part of statis...
Google Tech Talk June 11, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Paul Bakaus. There are many professional game engines out there for consoles, PCs, and mobile handhelds. However, there is one big empty gap, even in 2010: Not a single game engine targets desktop and mobile browsers natively without the use of...
Google Tech Talk February 14, 2012 Presented by Ron Garret. ABSTRACT The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away The Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) was an autonomous control system for an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft called New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1). In May...
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 jQuer...
Google Tech Talk (more info below) March 28, 2011 Presented by Siegfried S. Hecker, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University ABSTRACT North Korea Nuclear Proliferation, Negotiation and the human aspects of an estranged country. My seventh trip to North Korea in seven...
Google Tech Talk (more info below) June 30, 2011 Presented by Stephen E. Palmer Professor of the Graduate School Psychology & Cognitive Science University of California, Berkeley ABSTRACT Arnheim (1986) once speculated that different aesthetic domains (eg, color and music) might be related to eac...
