Engineering directors from Google China, Taiwan, India and Korea offices speak on Google initiatives and tech trends in Asia. Panel discussion following presentation moderated by Ping Li from Accel Partners.
Allison Hunt: How I got my new hip
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
Nikesh Arora – Egypt interview
Nikesh Arora – President of EMEA Operations for Google talks on Egyptian TV about Google’s future plans in Egypt and the Middle East.
July S.F. Bay Area MySQL Users Group Meeting – Tim Kay
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)
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
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
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…
Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass
Google Tech Talks
June 18, 2007
ABSTRACT
“Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis”
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operation in Summer 2008, will collide protons at energies not accessible since the time of the early Universe. The study of the reactions produced at the LHC has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the most fundamental forces in nature. The ATLAS experiment, currently being installed at the LHC, is designed to detect collisions at the LHC, to collect the relevant data and to provide a unified framework for the reconstruction and analysis of these data. This talk…
Science Commons
Google Tech Talks
June 25, 2007
ABSTRACT
Science Commons was launched to expand the Creative Commons mission into the scientific realm. James Boyle will be talking about two Science Commons projects: The Neurocommons and the Materials Transfer Project. The Materials Transfer Project uses standard machine readable licenses so that one day sharing biological materials between labs might be as easy as buying books from Amazon. If these words weren’t forbidden at Google, he’d describe the Neurocommons as a first draft of an open “semantic web” for neurology. The overall goal is to take some of the ingenuity we devote to allowing teenagers to flirt with each other online, or people to share and find…