High Resolution Photos Of Classic Art

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Google Tech Talks
November 16, 2006

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Lumiere Technology specializes in high resolution photography + computer enhancements of fine art. The Mona Lisa is just one of many examples of paintings that have been scanned using this new technology. See this news release for an example:
http://www.lumiere-technology.com/Pages/News/news3.htm

Jean Penicaut, CEO of Lumiere, will describe the technology and present several examples of the work he is doing. Credits: Speaker:Jean Penicaut

Keeping Up With The Human Genome

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Google Tech Talks
December 1, 2006

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The Human Genome Sequence was a big jump in scale for the then young bioinformatics field. Thirty times bigger than the worm genome that we were only just getting to grips with and with far greater numbers of interested users. The Ensembl project was started from scratch to handle this data: a system to store the data in an RDBMS; a pipeline to generate a pre-computed set of analysis; an API to provide both web and programmatic access. Ensembl evolves continuously: a new release is made every 2 months and in nearly every release the schema is updated to handle new data types. It now integrates more than thirty large genomes and provides researchers with…

Open Source Drug Discovery for Neglected Diseases

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Google TechTalks
April 07, 2006

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Marc works with an initiative that seeks to make biological and genomic data open and available such that anyone can go play with it and form communities around working with this data. The hope is that by having data freely available people there will be many more people working with the data and thus more leads into potential therapies and cures.

Decision Making and Chance

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Google Tech Talks
September 17, 2006

Dr. Mike Orkin is a Managing Scientist at Exponent, a publicly traded scientific consulting company headquartered in Menlo Park. Mike has numerous research publications in game theory and probability theory and has written data mining and simulation software. He is a nationally known authority on odds and gambling games and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows to discuss gambling and odds, including CNN, NBC’s Dateline and ABC’s World News Tonight.

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Certain gambling games, such as roulette and craps, are games of pure chance: In repeated play, luck disappears, and the persistent gambler will go broke. Other gambling activities, such as betting…

Tango EV Electric Sports Car

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Google Tech Talks
July 18, 2006

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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

E-Sourcing: Impact of Non-Price Attributes Strategic…

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Google Tech Talks
October 20, 2006

D.J. Wu

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Internet and other Information Technology (IT) innovations have redefined the classic concept of market revolutionarily, creating new marketplaces continuously such as Google, eBay and Amazon. The design of such electronic markets calls for new models, algorithms, and theoretical guidance. Credits: Speaker:D.J. Wu