Joomla!

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Google Tech Talks
December 21, 2006

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Wilco Jansen, organization administrator and mentor for Joomla! in Google Summer of Code 2006, will present along with one of his fellow mentors, Louis Landry, on the Joomla! project, its community and the organizations participation in GSoC 2006. Credits: Speaker:Wilco Jansen, Speaker:Louis Landry

David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell

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http://www.ted.com Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell.

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
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Silicon Valley WebGuild: Vertical Search Trends

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Google Tech Talks
August 23, 2006

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Presenters:
Michael Yang, Founder, President and CEO, Become.com
Gautam Godhwani, President, Simply Hired
Suranga Chandratillake, Founder & CTO, Blinkx

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What is it vertical search? It is search focused on a specific vertical. Vertical search engines mine data for one specific niche of the market place — for example, travel, jobs, hotels, music, movies, and even health care. As web sites and data proliferate, the task of locating specific information gets tougher. Vertical search engines provide an efficient way to get to that information. Verticals are very different from domain specific portals…

Pricing Real Options Contracts in Capacity Exchanges

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Google Tech Talks
October 20, 2006

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First talk (joint work with Dr. Shijie Deng of GT) is a theory piece where we propose to create industrial exchanges for capacity trading via options contracts. In a continuous-time setting, we study the pricing of tradable capacity options contracts in business-to-business (B2B) exchanges in a variety of industries such as contract manufacturing, semiconductor (e.g. memory chips), oil and gas, electric power or commodity chemicals. The contract takes the form of European call option that specifies a premium price and a strike price. We show that the real options pricing formula is a modified Black-Merton-Scholes pricing formula and is equivalent to the…

Google Test Automation Conference Lightning Talks

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

Presenters:
Harry Robinson, Dan North, Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Christine Newman, Andrin von Rechenberg, Ade Oshineye, Timur Hairullin, James Richardson, James Lyndsay, Jordan Dea-Mattson, Curtis “Ovid” Poe

Sowing the Seeds for a more Creative Society

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Google Tech Talks
October 26, 2006

Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory, develops new technologies and activities to engage people (especially children) in creative learning experiences. Resnicks Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed ideas and technologies underlying the LEGO Mindstorms and PicoCricket construction kits. He co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, a network of after-school centers where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Resnick earned a BA in physics at Princeton University (1978), and MS and PhD degrees in computer science at MIT (1988, 1992). Resnick has consulted…