Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC)
Google engEDU
September 8th, 2006

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Google TechTalks
April 27, 2006

Dr. Jennifer Heldmann

Dr. Jennifer Heldmann is currently a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Space Science Division and at the SETI Institute in the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.

ABSTRACT
NASA has announced plans to return to the Moon with both robotic and human exploration. Site selection is the keystone to lunar planning and drives the lunar program in terms of both near-term and long-term planning.

To support site selection and ensure continued public support and enthusiasm for NASA’s new lunar program, a comprehensive lunar database is needed to distribute lunar data and lunar data products in an easily accessible…

Google TechTalks

June 7, 2006

Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google’s user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google’s many products. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer…

Google Tech Talks
September 12, 2006

Yi Cui is an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Technology Review World Top 100 Young Innovator Award. He received his PhD degree from Harvard University working with Prof. Charles Lieber. He received his B.S. degree from Univ of Science and Technology of China.

ABSTRACT
Nanowires and nanocrystals represent important nanomaterials with one-dimensional and zero-dimensional morphology, respectively. Here I will give an overview on the research about how these nanomaterials impact the critical applications in faster transistors, smaller nonvolatile memory devices, efficient…

Google Tech Talks
September 25, 2006

Chris Spurgeon is a lifelong history of science junkie. For several years he was “The Invention Guy” on the Peabody award winning children’s radio program “Kid’s Corner”, teaching children about innovation and invention. Currently, his day job is web development for American Public Media in Los Angeles. In his free time he plays around with alternative data displays and pokes around flea markets and surplus stores looking for obsolete technologies.

ABSTRACT
With the explosion of mapping and location-related technologies over the past couple of years, it’s easy to forget that innovation in the geo world is nothing new. This fun and fast-paced talk will reveal…

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 been studying networking since 1969. He still hopes that someday something will start to make sense.

ABSTRACT
Today’s research community congratulates itself for the success of the internet and passionately argues whether circuits or datagrams are the One True Way. Meanwhile the list of unsolved problems grows.

Security, mobility, ubiquitous computing, wireless, autonomous sensors, content…

Google TechTalks
March 17, 2006

Jeff Burke
Dana Cuff
Deborah Estrin
Michael Hamilton
Mark Hansen
William Kaiser
Jerry Kang
Fabian Wagmister

ABSTRACT
Sensors and their data will dominate tomorrow’s global network. Location-tagged images and sound, captured from mobile phones, will intersect with data from municipal monitoring of city infrastructure and embedded sensors placed by citizens. Social networking applications built on tagged media are already flourishing. Intrinsically data-centric features will soon come to networking, providing low-level capabilities to verify location, aggregate sources, control resolution and implement privacy policies, all for data that originates in the…

Google TechTalks
April 11, 2006

Alberto Conti
Carol Christian

ABSTRACT
A revolution is now underway in Astronomy and Astrophysics. The next decade will witness the completion of massive, wide-area, multicolor imaging and spectroscopic surveys of the local and distant Universe.

With its strong legacy of public outreach, Hubble’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) has been responsible for how most of the world views our universe. We recognize that, given the coming flood of information, the next step of this task is to allow users to actively explore the cosmos themselves. In this talk we hope to show some of the potential explorations of this wealth of data to help us all better…

Google TechTalks
March 29, 2006

Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla is a venture capitalist considered one of the most successful and influential personalities in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986. In 2004 he formed Khosla Ventures.

ABSTRACT
On Wednesday, March 29th, by invitation from our co-founders and CEO, our special guest, Vinod Khosla, visited Google to deliver a tech talk about the emergence of ethanol as a viable, market ready, and competitive source of renewable energy. His presentation has been making huge waves in the investor, policy, and business communities…