Google Tech Talks
March 8, 2007

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Jon will describe the revolution in medicine that has occurred over the past 30 years that has integrated the mind back into the body and developed a remarkable range of practices for integrating one’s experience, reducing stress, healing the body, coping more effectively with emotions such as anxiety, anger, and depression, and cultivating greater well-being and happiness. His work has been instrumental in bringing Buddhist meditative practices, as he likes to say, “without the Buddhism” to full acceptance within the mainstream of medicine, psychology, and health care, and has shown them to be effective in people suffering from a wide range of medical…

Google Tech Talks
February 13, 2007

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This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source operating system designed from the ground up for the desktop, inspired in the concepts and technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover the concepts and features that make Haiku unique, as well as a hands on demo. Credits: Speaker:Bruno Albuquerque, Speaker:Axel Dörfler, Speaker:Jorge Mare, Speaker:Michael Phipps

Google Tech Talks
March 5, 2007

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Alternate Reality Games not only exist on the web – they call you up, invade your TV show and fly helicopters outside of your house. This talk will provide a quick introduction in ARGs, and focus on how we’re using lessons learned from Perplex City Season 1 to make Season 2 a much more fun, more accessible and more immersive experience. Credits: Speaker:Adrian Hon

Google Tech Talks
March 6, 2007

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Jeff “Yak” Minter has been developing video games from the Sinclair Spectrum era on up through the present day. If you were alive in the 8-bit years, you’ve probably played one of his games: Llamatron, Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner and Idris Alpha were among the better-known ones. If you were one of the 30 people to buy an Atari Jaguar, you probably bought his “Tempest 2000” and “Defender 2000” cartridges. And if you own an Xbox 360, you’ve also seen his work: the builtin music visualizer is his creation. His current project is an XBox Live Arcade game temporarily titled “Space Giraffe”, which is an attempt to bring the classic Atari game Tempest…

Google Tech Talks
February 23, 2007

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Every year several catastrophic natural hazards strike somewhere on Earth. These may cause thousands of lives, cause damages of billions of dollars, destroy natural landmarks, cause tsunamis, floods, or landslides. Most of these events are caused by nature but their potential catastrophic consequences are tied to overcrowding and the emergence of megacities; the proliferation of nuclear power plants and nuclear waste storage facilities; and the existence of high dams, and other facilities whose destruction pose an unacceptable risk of global reach. Thus the study of natural hazards and of the processes that govern their occurrences has become a…

Google Tech Talks
March 7, 2007

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Until a recent upswing, developing and transition economies outside East and South Asia did not have sustained per capita income growth after the 1970s, nor any observable structural economic change. The Asian economies to a greater or lesser extent pursued developmentalist economic polices; the others undertook market liberalization as suggested by the World Bank and IMF. How all countries may be able to improve their growth performance through sensible policy choices is the pressing issue at hand. If they don’t, extreme poverty worldwide will not be reduced. Credits: Speaker:Lance Taylor

Google Tech Talks
March 5, 2007

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Google has one of the largest aerial/satellite image collections in the world, but there’s more to find in all that data than just a picture of your house. The same data that goes into Google Earth can tell you more about your environment than a Star Trek tricorder, if you know where to look.

Come learn about “Remote Sensing”: how to make quantitative use of satellite and aerial data, whether it’s visible imagery or something more exotic. Compute cloud cover over Cleveland. Determine deforestation in Denali. Prove that your neighbor’s pissing in your pool. Whether you’re across the street or across the solar system, if you can’t touch it, it’s all about…

Google Tech Talks
March 9, 2007

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This talk describes recent work of the UCLA Center for Image and Vision Science for learning to detect and recognize objects in natural images. This includes a real-time system for detecting text in unconstrained environments. Other examples include unsupervised learning of probabilistic grammars for detecting, recognizing, and segmenting objects. Credits: Speaker:Alan Yuille

Google Tech Talks
January 25, 2007

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Identity management is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of electronic communication and transaction systems. Applications such as electronic commerce, social networking, electronic health record management, government online, and enterprise identity and access management all critically rely on the ability to manage, provision, and authenticate the “identities” of people, devices, processes, and other entities. Three approaches to identity management can be distinguished: silo identity management, federated identity management, and user-centric identity management. Each of these has unique characteristics with regards to security, privacy,…