Videos tagged with GoogleTechTalks

Alireza Nader visited Google LA to discuss "Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran." It is not inevitable that Iran will acquire nuclear weapons or event that it will gain the capacity to qiuckly produce them. US and even Israeli analysts continually push their estimates for such an event further into the future. Nevertheless, absent a change in Iranian policy, it is reasonable to assume that, some ti...

Google Tech Talk March 15, 2012 Presented by Axel Naumann, CERN. ABSTRACT At CERN, 50 million lines of C++ code are being used by about 10 thousand physicist. Many of them are not programming experts. To make writing C++ more accessible, ROOT (http://root.cern.ch), one of the core tools at CERN, has been using the CINT C++ interpreter for more than 15 years. CINT also opens up a whole new world...

Dr. LaTourette examines nuclear power in the aftermath of Japan's Fukushima power plant disaster, with a special focus on US nuclear power plants.

The Economics of Interaction: How We Can Use Microeconomics to Describe the Interaction Between User and System A Google Tech Talk June 7, 2012 Presented by Leif Azzopardi ABSTRACT Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essentially, the search process can be viewe...

Google Tech Talk May 30, 2012 Presented by Dean Michael Berris ABSTRACT With Google now moving to the new C++11 standard, this talk aims to provide a view into how Google is involved in the standard committee and how a new standard is actually developed. It also gives a sneak peek at what to look out for in the next iteration of the standard. It will also cover a discussion on what happened in ...

Google Tech Talk January 25, 2012 Presented by Michael Stapelberg. ABSTRACT An introduction (with practical examples) to i3, a window manager explicitly targeted at power users (http://i3wm.org/) Alternative window managers such as i3 provide a way to either make the traditional desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, Xfce) usable or escape them altogether. Michael is the lead developer and founder o...

Google Tech Talk June 7, 2012 Presented by Steven Skiena. ABSTRACT A discipline of computational social science is emerging, applying large-scale text/data analysis to central problems in the humanities and social sciences. Here we study the problem of algorithmically-constructing quantitative measures of historical reputation. Who is more historically significant: Beethoven or Elvis? Washingto...

Google Tech Talk June 13, 2012 Presented by Sue Black. ABSTRACT Bletchley Park is the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during World War II and one of the birthplaces of the modern computer. Bletchley was home to Britain's cryptologists during WWII: Alan Turing (Turing Machine), Tommy Flowers, Miriam Louisa Rothschild and many others/early computer scientists. They are am...

Google Tech Talk March 23, 2012 Presented by Frédéric Cazals. ABSTRACT Noisy data are commonplace in science and engineering, and the importance of developing robust non-parametric models for such data cannot be overstated. In this talk, we shall review recent concepts and algorithms developed in computational geometry and computational topology for three seemingly unrelated problems in the rea...

Google Tech Talk April 30, 2012 Presented by Ray Dorsey & Kevin Biglan ABSTRACT The potential for technology to transform health care is immense, and we are just scratching the surface of what is possible with Google's products and services for Parkinson disease and beyond. We look forward to sharing these ideas with you. Here is additional information on our findings. Objective: To evaluate th...