Videos tagged with GoogleTechTalks

Google Tech Talk November 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Innovation and the Transformation of the Global Energy System Experts in energy technology, research, policy and business discuss the importance of clean energy innovation and how it can be accelerated. Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary
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 Energy, US Department of Energy Tim Woodward, Managing Director, Nth Power Dan Reicher, Director of Climate and...

Google Tech Talk November 24, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Paolo Ferragina. Nowadays we know how to effectively compress most basic components of any modern search engine, such as, the graphs arising from the Web structure and/or its usage, the posting lists, and the dictionary of terms. But we are not aware of any study which has deeply addressed the issue of compressing the raw Web pages. Many ...

Google Tech Talk December 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Dacher Keltner. Prof. Keltner will be presenting work related to his recent book "Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life": "In this talk I will survey the latest evolutionary and neuroscience that aligns with Charles Darwin's thesis that sympathy is our strongest instinct, or that we are born to be good. I will take the audience...

Google Tech Talk November 30, 2009 ABSTRACT Press Conference: Innovation and the Transformation of the Global Energy System. Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLHiN6cWes for the formal presentation. Participants for event include: Tim Woodward, Managing Director, Nth Power Dan Reicher, Director of Climate and Energy Initiatives, Google Dr. Ernie Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initia...

Google Tech Talk December 11, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Hongli Lai and Ninh Bui from Phusion. The Ruby programming language powers a significant portion of today's websites and is still growing in popularity. However, its implementation is not as efficient as it could be, and in this talk we will explain how Ruby Enterprise Edition addresses some of these issues. Ruby has a relatively high mem...

Google Tech Talk December 10, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Danny Roest. Crawljax is a tool for crawling any AJAX/GWT application. It uses WebDriver to navigate through the different states of a web application. With plugins and invariants Crawljax can be used to perform various automated tests. For example: security testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, cross-br...

Google Tech Talk December 3, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Luis Aguirre-Torres. Latin America, which currently accounts for one fifth of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions, represents a great opportunity for investors and cleantech firms alike. The new trend towards incorporating renewable energy in the energy portfolio in most developing countries, in combination with international pressure to a...

Google Tech Talk December 15, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Dr. John Hunter, President of Quicklaunch, Inc. Quicklaunch is dedicated to launching rocket propellant and other consumables into orbit using a hydrogen gas gun. Quicklaunchers are related to the SHARP launcher, originally at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. More than 90% of the mass required for manned Mars and Lunar exploration ...

Google Tech Talk December 4, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Manuel Pérez-Quiñones. Personal Information Management (PIM) practices are the behaviors that we follow when we organize our information. This often includes emails, documents, bookmarks, pictures, etc. Research in PIM has identified a common set of activities that require support: encountering information, organizing information, filing/a...

Google Tech Talk December 7, 2009 ABSTRACT CMake/CPack/CTest/CDash Open Source Tools to Build Test and Deploy C++ Software, presented by Bill Hoffman. CMake has been in development since 1999, and has been used on several large open source projects such as ITK, VTK, ParaView, VXL, Trilinos and CMake itself. Further, KDE, one of the largest OSS projects has adopted CMake, demonstrating that CMak...