Google TechTalks
April 11, 2006

Richard G. Baraniuk
Richard G. Baraniuk is the Victor E. Cameron Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and Founder of Connexions.

W. Joseph King
W. Joseph King is the Executive Director of Connexions. Previously, he was an investment banker focused on incubating new technology companies.

ABSTRACT
A grassroots movement is on the verge of sweeping through the academic world. The “open access movement” is based on a set of intuitions that are shared by a remarkably wide range of academics: that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use; that collaboration should be easier, not harder; that people should receive credit…

Google Tech Talks
September 19, 2006

Dr. Markus Jakobsson, Associate Professor of Informatics at IUB Associate Director of CACR ABSTRACT
We describe a new type of threat to the Internet infrastructure, in the shape of a highly efficient but very well camouflaged click-fraud attack on the advertising infrastructure, not using any type of malware. The attack, which we refer to as a “badvertisement”, is described and experimentally verified on several prominent advertisement schemes. This stealthy attack can be thought of as a threatening mutation of spam and phishing attacks, with which it has many commonalities, except for the fact that it is not the targeted individual who is the victim in the…

Google TechTalks
July 26, 2006

Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. Previously, Luis obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He is the recipient of a Microsoft Research Fellowship. ABSTRACT
Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human…

Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC)
Google Tech Talks
September 7th, 2006

Presenters:
Shannon Maher and Allen Hutchison

Google TechTalks
June 21, 2006

Olena Medelyan is a grad student who has just started on a Google-funded PhD scholarship, looking at keyphrase extraction using lexical and linguistic techniques.

ABSTRACT
Keyphrases are widely used in information retrieval as a brief but precise summary of documents. They are usually selected by professional human indexers. The more consistent the indexers are with each other, the higher the retrieval efficiency. 1. We describe an experiment where six professionals assigned keyphrases from a controlled vocabulary to the same documents, and evaluate their indexing consistency. Interesting patterns discovered in this experiment helped in developing an automatic…

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

Presenter: Karl Garcia Credits: Presenter:Karl Garcia

Google TechTalks
April 27, 2006

Dr. Jennifer Heldmann

Dr. Jennifer Heldmann is currently a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Space Science Division and at the SETI Institute in the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.

ABSTRACT
NASA has announced plans to return to the Moon with both robotic and human exploration. Site selection is the keystone to lunar planning and drives the lunar program in terms of both near-term and long-term planning.

To support site selection and ensure continued public support and enthusiasm for NASA’s new lunar program, a comprehensive lunar database is needed to distribute lunar data and lunar data products in an easily accessible…

Google TechTalks

June 7, 2006

Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google’s user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google’s many products. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer…

Google Tech Talks
September 12, 2006

Yi Cui is an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is a recipient of the Technology Review World Top 100 Young Innovator Award. He received his PhD degree from Harvard University working with Prof. Charles Lieber. He received his B.S. degree from Univ of Science and Technology of China.

ABSTRACT
Nanowires and nanocrystals represent important nanomaterials with one-dimensional and zero-dimensional morphology, respectively. Here I will give an overview on the research about how these nanomaterials impact the critical applications in faster transistors, smaller nonvolatile memory devices, efficient…