John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

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http://www.ted.com The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

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

New generation of math software from Maplesoft

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Google Tech Talks
September, 11 2007

ABSTRACT

The name Maple is synonymous with doing complex math on computers. Best known for its symbolic or algebraic computation abilities, Maple is one of the most important tools for the modern applied mathematician and scientist. Many of you are likely familiar with Maple from college but you’ve probably not kept up to date with latest developments. This presentation will present some of the latest product developments from Maplesoft. Topics include

– developments in high performance numerical computation
– recent advances in symbolic computing
– new Maple libraries including graph theory, statistics, optimization, polynomial operations, and more
– parallel and grid computing
– knowledge capture for mathematical documents
– the Maple programming language and application development
– overview of new add-on products including global optimization, and modeling and simulation

The presenter will be Mohamed Bendame, a senior engineer from Maplesoft. The presentations will include an open Q session.

This talk will be taped by the engEDU Tech Talks Team.

Speaker: Mohamed Bendame

Seattle Conference on Scalability

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Google Tech Talks
June, 23 2007

ABSTRACT

Seattle Conference on Scalability: June 23, 2007

We care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn’t cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to talk about big ideas, so we’re planning our first ever conference on scalable systems. Our goal: to create a collegial atmosphere for participants to brainstorm different ways to build the robust systems that can handle, literally, a world of information.

The Agenda Can Be Found Here:
Agenda

Speaker: Barry Brumitt
Barry Brumitt is a software engineer with Google, Inc. who has been
working on maps-related applications since joining the Kirkland, WA
office in November 2005. Prior to coming to Google, he was at
Microsoft Corp for 8 years, working in both MS Games Studios and
MS Research. At MGS, he was responsible for the Artificial
Intelligence in Forza Motorsport, a simulation-style XBox racing
game. Previously at MSR, he worked in Ubiquitous Computing,
exploring location-based services, geometric models, and multi-
modal interfaces for smart environments, and publishing over a
dozen peer-reviewed papers. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics
from Carnegie Mellon in December 1997, and two B.Sc.s’ in
Computer Engineering and Physics from the…

Autocar’s 0-100-0mph 2007 – by Autocar.co.uk

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Simple test: which car drives from 0-100-0mph the quickest?
This year we have Porsche 911 GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera, Lotus 2-Eleven, Ariel Atom, Caterham R400 plus more. Steve Sutcliffe does the driving. Find out what wins…

The Pinocchio – Small Classes

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The Pinocchio is a great way to practice parts of the body and left/right. Works well with both large and small groups.

Lyrics, gestures, and free flashcards to the song here: http://supersimplelearning.com/songs/original-series/three/the-pinocchio/

Buy the song/CD on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J351R0A/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00J351R0A&linkCode=as2&tag=supesimplear-20
or iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/super-simple-songs-3/id867570349?uo=4&at=10l7wf

Lyrics:
♫ (Make a big circle.)
Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up!
Turn around!

Everybody in. Everybody out.
Everybody turn around. Everybody shout, “Hey!”
Everybody ready? Here we go.
Let’s do The Pinocchio.
Right arm!
Left arm!
Right leg!
Left leg!
Chin up!
Turn around!
Sit down! ♫
*****
Song: The Pinocchio
Album: Super Simple Songs 3

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Bugatti Veyron vs Porsche vs Audi vs Lamborghini vs Aston

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Bugatti vs Porsche vs Audi vs Lambo vs Aston For more Bugatti news and reviews visit http://www.autocar.co.uk/bugatti/ For more Porsche news and reviews visit http://www.autocar.co.uk/porsche/ For more Aston Martin news and reviews visit http://www.autocar.co.uk/astonmartin/ For more Lamborghini news and reviews visit http://www.autocar.co.uk/lamborghini/