Google TechTalks
July 5, 2006

Teng-Kee Tan

A US corporate marketing man born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore who later struck out on his own, Prof Teng-Kee Tan did business for 10 years in China and now runs (and teaches in) joint graduate programs in technology entrepreneurship and innovation between institutions in Singapore, US and China.

ABSTRACT
Prof Teng-Kee Tan talks about the “dilemma approach” to the opportunities and challenges of doing business in China as we examine and reconcile Eastern and Western values and culture.

Google TechTalks
May 25, 2006

Ashok Jhunjhunwala
Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras.

ABSTRACT
Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala has significant expertise in incubating technology to make a difference for the masses in India.

Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at Indian Institute of Technology…

Google TechTalks
January 25, 2006

Dr. Rupak Biswas and Dr. Chris Henze

Dr. Rupak Biswas is currently the Acting Chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Biswas received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991 and has been at NASA ever since.

Chris Henze is the lead of the Visualization Group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, in which capacity he supervises research and development activities in data analysis and visualization. Dr. Henze received his Ph.D. in computational biology from the University of Arizona in 1993.

Google TechTalks
August 1, 2006

Ron Avitzur

ABSTRACT
It’s midnight. I’ve been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I’m not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I’m evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer’s main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation.

For more info visit:
http://www.pacifict.com/Story

Google TechTalks
June 6, 2006

Sheila Scott-Wilkinson
Mark Armstrong
Caitlin O’Hara

ABTSRACT
The mission of Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First Artist-In-Residence program is to prevent and intervene in youth-on-youth violence by involving youth and their families in on-going, high quality, multidisciplinary educational arts workshops offered at community-based sites countywide. Theatre Of Hearts, founded in 1987, is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation whose vision is to promote understanding between people through cultural and artistic forums, and to empower local communities through education in the arts. Our COOL ART Lending Program features high-quality artwork created by over…

Google TechTalks
January 11, 2006

Bil Lewis

Bil Lewis is a computer scientist who has worked on natural language understanding, expert systems, language design, and programming tools. He studied at Ripon College, the University of Indiana, and Penn. He has taught at Stanford and for numerous companies. He has worked at Stanford Research Institute, the FMC AI Center, and Sun Microsystems. He wrote “GNU Emacs Lisp”, the “Threads Primer”, “Multithreaded Programming with PThreads”, and “Multithreaded Programming with Java”. ABSTRACT
What if a debugger could allow you to simply step BACKWARDS? Instead of all that hassle with guessing where to put breakpoints and the fear of typing “continue” one too…

Google TechTalks
May 12, 2006

Eamonn Keogh

ABSTRACT
The problem of indexing large collections of time series and images has received much attention in the last decade, however we argue that there is potentially great untapped utility in data mining such collections. Consider the following two concrete examples of problems in data mining.

Motif Discovery (duplication detection): Given a large repository of time series or images, find approximately repeated patterns/images.

Discord Discovery: Given a large repository of time series or images, find the most unusual time series/image.

As we will show, both these problems have applications in fields as diverse as anthropology, crime…

Google TechTalks
July 19, 2006

Tyler Close

Visiting Scientist Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Mr. Close is a researcher and developer, working in the field of secure, multi-user, distributed applications since 1998.

ABSTRACT
In Authorization Based Access Control (ABAC) systems built with object-capabilities, an access policy is expressed by the shape of a reference graph: what a user can do is determined by where they are in the reference graph and what other parts of the graph are reachable from that point. By applying some basic cryptography to create links that act as “webkeys”, we can construct URL graphs that are compatible with today’s WWW infrastructure and additionally provide the…

Google TechTalks
July 18, 2006

Ely Dahan

At MIT’s Sloan School of Business, Ely Dahan taught high tech marketing and new product development. He now develops new models and methods for developing products at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. Dahan has developed internet-based market research methods, mathematical models of parallel and sequential prototyping, the economics of cost reduction, and strategies for mass customization. Prior to entering academia, he was national product manager for W.R. Grace and NEC until 1984, when he founded a computer networking company in Maryland, serving as CEO until the firm was acquired in 1993. He is the recipient, along with his coauthors, of the INFORMS…