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Google Tech Talk May 10, 2013 (more info below) Presented by Wayne M. Getz, Richard M. Salter, Nick Sippl-Swezey ABSTRACT Current graphically-driven coding platforms for building computational models are either confined to a restricted selection of in-house elements or have a flat structure that facilitates the formulation of either dynamical systems models or individual-based, event-oriented (...
Genesis: A Startup College to Reach the Forgotten Youth of Japan
Google Tech Talk March 15, 2013 (more info below) Presented by Joseph Kim, President, Genesis International College. ABSTRACT Japan has some of the oldest and most respected universities in the world. However, higher education in Japan is only for the privileged and is inaccessible to the majority of high school graduates. Genesis International College of Osaka, Japan (www.genesiscollege.jp) is...
Human Engine Optimization: Natural Strategies for High Ranking Health
Google Tech Talk March 19, 2013 (more info below) Presented by Stephen Devries, M.D. ABSTRACT New scientific advances have revealed the remarkable potency of simple strategies for optimizing our health. This talk will highlight surprising, yet highly practical nutritional and mind/body interventions that can make an enormous difference in maintaining wellness. When further steps are needed, a p...
Organizing the World's Scientific Knowledge to make it Universally Accessible and Powerful:
Google Tech Talk April 30, 2013 (more info below) Presented by: Gully Burns ABSTRACT Not all information is created equal. Accurate, innovative scientific knowledge generally has an enormous impact on humanity. It is the source of our ability to make predictions about our environment. It is the source of new technology (with all its attendent consequences, both positive and negative). It is als...
How Google Impacts Global Education:
How Google Impacts Global Education: Introducing the Google API usages within the computer adaptive formative assessment (more info below) Google Tech Talk April 30, 2013 Presented by Jaehwa Choi ABSTRACT The purpose of this presentation is introducing the Google APIs applications within the Computer Adaptive Formative AssessmentTM (CAFATM; Choi, Kim, & Yoon, 2012). CAFATM is a technology-based...
GTAC 2013: Empirical Investigation of Software Product Line Quality
http://g.co/gtac2013 Slides: http://goo.gl/pPQ1u Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Software product lines exhibit high degree of commonality among the systems in the product line and a well specified number of possible variations. Based on data extracted from two case studies - a medium size industrial product line and a large, evolving open source product line - we explore...
GTAC 2013: Automated Set-Top Box Testing with GStreamer and OpenCV
http://g.co/gtac2013 David Röthlisberger, YouView We'll build a video-capturing image recognition system in 3 minutes, using GStreamer's command-line tools and OpenCV. (GStreamer is an open-source media-handling framework; OpenCV —"Open Computer Vision"— is an open-source image-processing library.) A leading example of such a system is http://stb-tester.com, an open-source tool developed at You...
GTAC 2013: Testing Systems at Scale @Twitter
http://g.co/gtac2013 Slides: http://goo.gl/9VY2b James Waldrop, Twitter James will be discussing the tools, process, and philosophy that goes into performance testing at Twitter. Particular emphasis will be placed on the Iago open source load testing library, which he wrote to enable Twitter's engineering teams to perform load tests before deploying code to production. The talk will dive into i...
GTAC 2013 Day 2 Keynote: Testable JavaScript - Architecting Your Application for Testability
http://g.co/gtac2013 Slides: http://goo.gl/E1v14 Mark Trostler, Google Testable JavaScript is a process. Whether starting with a blank slate or an already implemented application (or somewhere in-between) being able to test your JavaScript code simply, cleanly, and effectively is a necessary feature. Code that cannot be tested will be rewritten. While JavaScript is unique due to the myriad of e...
GTAC 2013: Android UI Automation
http://g.co/gtac2013 Slides: http://goo.gl/kpJCL Guang Zhu (朱光) and Adam Momtaz, Google As Android gains popularity in the mobile world, application developers and OEM vendors are exploring ways to perform end-to-end UI driven testing of applications or entire platform. With a brief review of existing UI Automation solutions on Android, this talk introduces the recently released Android UI Auto...