Videos tagged with Research
Google Tech Talk (more info below) March 12, 2011 Presented by Michael Nielsen. ABSTRACT A remarkable transformation is now underway in how scientists make discoveries. Mass online collaborations are being used to prove mathematical theorems; online markets are allowing scientific problems to be outsourced; and online citizen science projects are enabling amateurs to make scientific discoveries...
Tekzilla Daily Tip #544: CES 2010: Intel’s Infoscape Brings Amazing Visualization To Life
Best Demo of CES 2010: Intel shows off a powerful data visualization engine running on its core i7 processor, and using two 7’ screens and a multi-touch interface.Using a 7 foot multi-touch screen, Intel shows off an amazing look at the future of information visualization and access, running on a Core i7 desktop processor. Intel’s INfoscape is powered by Intel’s own HD graphics, and it was very...
Google Faculty Summit 2009: Google Crisis Response
Google Faculty Summit 2009: Global Connection: Inform and EmpowerGoogle Crisis Response, presented by France Lamy.Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though our Faculty Summit program. Faculty Summits are designed to provide researchers with a chance to learn more about what Google does in each region and how we support university programs, as well as pro...
Search User Interfaces
Marti will talk about her recently published book, "Search User Interfaces," which presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems. Professor Marti Hearst, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley.Google Tech TalksNovember 23, 2009
Project Fortress: Run your whiteboard, in parallel, on the JVM
Summary In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based highly parallel programming language. Topics covered include the origins of Fortress, mathematical syntax, the challenges of running on the JVM, parsing, work stealing, transactions, continuations, problems with blocking, the type system, type mapping, multiple dispatch and profiling...
Research Road Trip: A Traveler's Road to Decision webinar
In a recent study, Google and M&RR (Marketing and Research Resources, Inc.) explored how consumers research and gather information throughout the travel decision-making process. We examined behaviors in business and leisure travelers, and culled out insights across four key travel categories: Airlines, Hotels, Car Rental, Cruise. On Friday, October 10, 2008, Google hosted a webinar that cov...
HGN presents Dr. Elmer Huerta from the American Cancer Socie
Dr. Elmer E. Huerta is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Latin American Cancer Research Coalition (LACRC) and a member of the LACRC Steering Committee. He is currently the President of the American Cancer Society and the Founder and Director of the Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute in the Washington Hospital Center, the only cancer prevention/screening service for Lati...
Fortress - programming for supercomputers
Summary Guy L. Steele heads the Sun Programming Language Research Group. He's held positions at Carnegie-Mellon University, Tartan Laboratories, and Thinking Machines Corporation and is the author or co-author of several books on languages (Common Lisp, C, High Performance Fortran, the Java Language Specification) as well as "The Hacker's Dictionary" (also known on the Internet as the...