Videos tagged with Education

Ryan Hickman, Damon Kohler, Ken Conley, Brian GerkeyLearn how developers can accelerate the pace of robotics research and development and make high functioning robots affordable and universally accessible.

Most recently, Why has focused his efforts on the problem of how to better teach programming, and how to make programming more appealing to young people. His latest project, Hackety Hack, is a Ruby-based environment used to teach programming to children. His most vocal critics describe him as "a fledgling freelance professor, should one adhere to the most fraudulent of definitions." His biograp...

Two stylized alternative visions of how the power system might evolve to meet future requirements for the high power quality and reliability (PQR) electricity service that modern digital economies demand will be contrasted, a supergrids paradigm and a dispersed paradigm. Some of the economics of the dispersed vision are explored, and perspectives are presented on both the choice of homogeneous ...

Technology plays a role in baseball from the game on the field to the business and team operations in the front office. Find out how the San Francisco Giants use technology in game-related functions and business areas.Hear about the Giants plans to experiment with dynamic pricing during 2009. The Giants are trying something new with ticket sales in a few tough-to-sell upper-deck outfield sectio...

Rhodes is an open source Ruby-based MVC framework for building locally executing, device-optimized mobile applications which run on all smartphone devices. It is similar concept to frameworks such as Rails, Merb and Django but is much lighterweight in order to run locally on smartphones with limited memory and resources.Rhodes is primarily targeted at applications that work with synchronized lo...

A group of students from Appalachian State University's Industrial Design School in North Carolina created a working bicycle out of used water bottles and won the Juicy Ideas National Competition. The students have now come to Google to talk about how they created the bike, their version 2.0, and how they plan to make their idea a reality.See the winning team's video at:http://www.youtube.com/w...

We explore a formal and computational characterization of real world regularity using discrete symmetry groups (hierarchy) as a theoretical basis, embedded in a well-defined Bayesian framework. Our existing work on "A Computational Model for Periodic Pattern Perception Based on Frieze and Wallpaper Groups" (TPAMI 2004), 'Near-regular texture analysis and manipulation' (SGIGRAPH 2004), and "A La...

Peter Carpenter, who served as the Executive Vice President of the ALZA Corporation (an innovative pharmaceutical company and Google's former Mountain View neighbor) will discuss how ALZA dramatically changed the labeling of one of its products in order to better protect both its customers and the company.Speaker: Peter F. Carpenter AB, MBAMr. Carpenter received his AB degree in Chemistry from ...

The Trust is a feature length documentary shot inside San Quentin State Prison and in surrounding Bay Area communities. The film is a character-driven story about the daily struggle of incarceration faced by three San Quentin inmates. After one man is released, the film follows him home as he attempts to re-integrate into society.The film takes you inside San Quentin on a one-on-one journey wit...

This is the second talk that follows-up on the 14 best practices from YSlow and "High Performance Web Sites". The first talk presented three new best practices: Split the Initial Payload, Load Scripts Without Blocking, and Don't Scatter Inline Scripts.The most important of these is loading external scripts without blocking other downloads and preventing page rendering. One complication is this ...