Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip

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http://www.ted.com When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip — and that Canadas national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2 years on a waiting list (and in pain) — she took matters into her own hands.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

July S.F. Bay Area MySQL Users Group Meeting – Tim Kay

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Tim presents the architecture that he designed for one of his clients. The system collects data from thousands of cell phones and matches the data acoustically with reference data that is collected via a different process.
The requirements include data integrity but not high availability, so he was able to compromise in a way that significantly reduced cost and complexity.

Google Germany: AdWords brings new customers (Short Version)

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On July 16, 2007 over 100 German Googlers demonstrated that
Google AdWords can bring new customers in a very unique way.
They literally brought the new customers, which were represented by
colorful figures, to a map and travel bookstore in Hamburg. They
came on foot, by bike, by boat, by skateboard, and by many other creative means.

Prospects for extending healthy life – a lot

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Google Tech Talks
May 29, 2007

ABSTRACT

It may seem premature to be discussing approaches to the effective elimination of human aging as a cause of death at a time when essentially no progress has yet been made in even postponing it. However, two aspects of human aging combine to undermine this assessment. The first is that aging is happening to us throughout our lives but only results in appreciable functional decline after four or more decades of life: this shows that we can postpone the functional decline caused by aging arbitrarily well without knowing how to prevent aging completely, but instead by increasingly thorough molecular and cellular repair. The second is that the typical rate of…

Selling Interest by the Eye Ball

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Google Tech Talks
May 7, 2007

ABSTRACT

Over the past few years, our work has centered around the development of computing technologies that are sensitive to what is perhaps the most important contextual cue for interacting with humans that exists: the fabric of their attention. Our research group has studied how humans communicate attention to navigate complex scenarios, such as group decision making. In the process, we developed many different prototypes of user interfaces that sense the users’ attention, so as to be respectful players that share this most important resource with others. One of the most immediate methods for sensing human attention is to detect what object the eyes look at. The…