Google TechTalks
March 22, 2006

Aristides Gionis

Aristides Gionis received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2003, and he is currently a senior researcher at the Basic Research Unit of Helsinki Institute of Information Technology.

ABSTRACT
We consider the following problem: given a set of clusterings, find a clustering that agrees as much as possible with the given clusterings.

This problem, clustering aggregation, appears naturally in various contexts. For example,clustering categorical data is an instance of the problem: each categorical variable can be viewed as a clustering of the input rows. Moreover, clustering aggregation can be used as a metaclustering method to improve the…

Google TechTalks
November 2, 2005 Dr. Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer
http://www.stuartcheshire.org/

ABSTRACT
The desirability of making IP networking easy to use has been obvious for many years, but achieving that goal has proved elusive. One day, Stuart Cheshire got tired of fellow Stanford Computer Science PhD students wanting to print from his Mac (via AppleTalk) because they couldn’t work out how to configure their Linux /etc/printcap files to access the network printer they wanted to use via IP, and he decided it was time someone did something about it.

Thus began a long saga, beginning with the formation of the IETF “Zero Configuration Networking” working group, and ending where we are…

Google TechTalks
April 19, 2006

Lev Goldfarb

ABSTRACT
Any environment can be viewed as a multitude of evolving and interacting classes of ‘objects’. Why hasn’t this simple and unifying view inspired the organization of various databases and search engines, as well as the development of AI, and CS in general?

I suggest that the primary (and non-obvious) reason for the current state of affairs is the total lack of class-oriented representational formalisms in CS, and indeed in all sciences. As to the substantial efforts exerted by the pattern recognition and machine learning communities to understand classification, all such efforts have been confined to conventional representational…

Google TechTalks
August 10, 2006

Matt Gorbet, Susan Gorbet, Rob Gorbet
Gorbet Design

ABSTRACT
Gorbet Design’s mission is to enhance the experience of public space through the creative application of technology. Using innovative physical interactions, their design practice and public artworks add surprise and delight to spaces like retail stores, hotels, airports and museums. Their interactive marquee ‘P2P: Power to the People’ is currently being shown at the ZeroOne festival in San Jose (http://www.gorbet.com/p2p). They will speak about some of their projects and the principles that they bring to their practice.

Google TechTalks
August 24, 2006

Terry Hird, UC Berkeley, Founder of Negotiation-International, has over 25 years of international business and negotiation under his belt. Terry’s work as a business owner, consultant and educator has brought him into contact with top business, organizations and learning institutions around the world. He has done business and negotiation in more than fifty countries throughout Asia, Europe, The Middle East, South America, and Africa. To learn more about Terry & Negotiation-International, visit http://www.negotiation-international.com

ABSTRACT
There is no Chinese word for negotiation. Tan pan translates “discussion or making a judgment”. In Chinese a negotiation…

Google TechTalks
July 5, 2006

Alan Karp

Principle Scientist Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Dr. Karp has been leading the Virus Safe Computing Initiative at HP Labs since 2003. He served as Chief Scientist of HP’s E-speak Operation from June 1999 until April 2000, at which time he returned to HP Laboratories to work on automated negotiation. Before working on E-speak, Dr. Karp participated in developing the EPIC chip architecture, the basis of Intel’s Itanium line.

ABSTRACT
HP Labs encourages activities considered to be outside the mainstream. Our group, the Virus Safe Computing Initiative, takes a view of security that is quite different from that of the official HP and HP Labs security teams….

Google TechTalks
August 1, 2006

David Wolber (http://cs.usfca.edu/~wolber) is a professor at the University of San Francisco. His interests include collaborative research systems, e-politics, and service learning within computer science. ABSTRACT
Peoplicious is a collaborative research tool. Unlike systems such as del.icio.us, people are first-class data objects, along with documents. Users can create people, provide structured information about people (image, homepage, blog feed, delicious name, etc.), and create lists of people (people-tagging). Users can also bookmark documents and associate documents with people (personmarks). Any user can enter information about any person.

Peoplicious is…

Google TechTalks
May 24, 2006

Jared Spool
Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering

Jared M. Spool is founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of it’s kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective and knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term “usability” was ever associated with computers. ABSTRACT
What’s the most effective way to strengthen a brand on the internet? Recent research shows that it isn’t using traditional branding techniques. In fact, those tried-and-true methods can…

Google TechTalks
April 24, 2006

Scott Barber
Scott Barber is the CTO of PerfTestPlus, Inc. and Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR). Scott’s particular specialties are testing and analyzing performance for complex systems, developing customized testing methodologies, group facilitation and authoring instructional materials.

ABSTRACT
Modeling application usage is more than just parsing log files and calculating page frequencies. Whether we are analyzing navigation path effectiveness, planning for scenario testing, documenting performance test workload models or mapping services or objects to user activity having a single, intuitive picture to reference makes the job…