Videos tagged with GoogleTechTalks

Google Tech Talk June 19, 2009 ABSTRACT Beyond Web 2.0 -- How RDFa Can Help to Democratise Data on the Web. Presented by Mark Birbeck. Publishing to the web has never been easier, with the proliferation of content management systems, online blogging platforms, microblogging, and more. However, publishing data is either the preserve of organizations prepared to manage their own IT, or requires i...

Google Tech Talks Feb. 13, 2008 ABSTRACT Presented by Dr. James Grossnickle Nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, can also be harnessed for power on Earth. Present research in magnetic confinement fusion is promising and advancing. ITER (international thermonuclear experimental reactor), based on the tokamak configuration, has been sited and will begin construction soon. An alternate...

Google Tech Talk August 31, 2009 ABSTRACT Implementing a National Health Monitoring Evaluation and Case Surveillance Interface in Haiti (Lessons and Perspectives) Presented by Kurt Jean Charles. This talk is about the experience of SOLUTIONS' team of software developers on a project financed and piloted by CDC's office in Haiti in support to the Ministry of Health. It will include a demo of the...

Google Tech Talk September 11, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jerry Porras. Jerry Porrass research interests are the characteristics of visionary companies in both the United States and Europe; the dynamics of planned organizational change process; organizational vision and its influence on the long-term behavior organizations; and leadership. Jerry I. Porras is the Lane Professor of Organizational...

Google Tech Talk September 17, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Lindsey Simon and Steve Souders. This talk covers two open source projects being released by Googlers. Browserscope (http://browserscope.org/) is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers. The current test categories ...

Google Tech Talk September 17, 2009 ABSTRACT Aleecia M. McDonald will speak about industry self-regulation for online privacy. After a brief overview of how we got here, we will explore the status quo through two studies. First, what is the user burden if people read online privacy policies? How long would it take to do so, and what is the economic value of that time? Second, how well can users...

Google Tech Talk September 10, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Richard A. Kemmerer. Botnets, which are networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security threats on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and insidious type of bot is Torpig, which is a malware program that is designed to harvest sensitive information (such a...

Google Tech Talk September 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jorge Zavala. A walk through the life of Jorge Zavala as an engineer, serial entrepreneur and business developer, and the challenges he faced doing business in Latin America to the creation of global companies in Silicon Valley. Jorge will share his experiences opening the first TechBA office: a Mexican program to help startups to jumpst...

Google Tech Talk September 18, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Professor Raghu Murtugudde, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center University of Maryland, College Park. While the IPCC will continue to lead Earth System projections for global issues such as greenhouse gas levels and global temperature increase, high-resolution regional Earth System...

Google Tech Talk July 31, 2009 ABSTRACT Alberto Yépez, a Perú native, has built successful global businesses in enterprise security and infrastructure software for over 20 years. He is currently a Venture Partner for Trident Capital focusing on Enterprise Software and IT Security. He is also the president of the Hispanic IT Executive Council that includes executives leading Fortune 500 corporat...