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The Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Categorization, Novelty-Detec... Google Tech Talks November, 15 2007 ABSTRACT Neurocomputational models provide fundamental insights towards understanding the human brain circuits for learning new associations and organizing our world into appropriate categories. In this talk I will review the information-processing functions of four interacting brain systems for learning and categorization: (1) the basal ganglia which incrementally adjusts choice behaviors using environmental feedback about the consequences of our actions, (2) the hippocampus which supports learning in other brain regions through the creation of new stimulus representations (and, hence, new similarity relationships) that reflect important statistical regularities in the environment, (3) the medial septum which works in a feedback-loop with the hippocampus, using novelty-detection to alter the rate at which stimulus representations are updated through experience, (4) the frontal lobes which provide for selective attention and executive control of learning and memory. The computational models to be described have been evaluated through a variety of empirical methodoligies including human functional brain imaging, studies of patients with localized brain damage due to injury or early-stage neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral genetic studies of naturally-occuring individual variability, as well as comparative lesion and genetic studies with rodents. Our applications of these models to engineering and computer science including automated anomaly detection systems for mechanical fault diagnosis on US Navy helicopters and submarines as well more recent contributions to the DoD's DARPA program for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA). Speaker: Dr. Mark Gluck Mark Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University - Newark, co-director of the Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and publisher of the public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain. He works at the interface between neuroscience, psychology, and computer science, where his research focuses on the neural bases of learning and memory, and the consequences of memory loss due to aging, trauma, and disease. He is the co-author of "Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Models of the Hippocampus and Memory " (MIT Press, 2001) and a forthcoming undergraduate textbook, "Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior." He has edited several other books and has published over 60 scientific journal articles. His awards include the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions from the American Psychological Society and the Young Investigator Award for Cognitive and Neural Sciences from the Office of Naval Research. In 1996, he was awarded a NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bill Clinton. For more information, see http://www.gluck.edu. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Reading Your Mind: Interfaces for Wearable Computing Google Tech Talks March, 6 2008 ABSTRACT Today's mobile devices have inherited many of the characteristics of desktop computing - including the assumptions that the user's full attention can be focused on the interface and that the user has the manual dexterity to spare for it. These assumptions result in users who run into doorways while typing an e-mail on their mobile phone. When faced with these interface difficulties in our experiments, users sometimes exclaim "I want my device to read my mind!" In this talk, we will demonstrate several prototypes that exploit pattern recognition and good interface design to simulate reading the user's mind by guessing their intent. In addition, we describe preliminary work on an actual brain computer interface. Informed by our own wearable computer use since 1993, my group investigates what mobile users claim to do with their devices, what they actually do with their devices, what they want to do, and the mobile interface challenges that interfere with the fulfillment of users' desires. We are currently exploring a successful modern incarnation of a wearable computer, the RIM Blackberry equipped with a Bluetooth earpiece, focusing on its mini-QWERTY keyboard. We have developed a technique called Automatic Whiteout++ that can eliminate 25% of mini-QWERTY users' "fat finger" typing errors, without using a dictionary. We will also discuss Dual Purpose Speech agents, which "listen in" on the user's conversation to help schedule appointments, remember small "notable" pieces of information, and communicate with remote assistants. Finally, we will describe our preliminary research on BrainSign, a direct brain interface where the user communicates through natural language. Speaker: Thad Starner Bio: Thad Starner is an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Interactive Computing. Thad was perhaps the first to integrate a wearable computer into his everyday life as an intelligent personal assistant. Starner's work as a PhD student would help found the field of Wearable Computing. His group's prototypes and patents on mobile MP3 players, mobile instant messaging and e-mail, gesture-based interfaces, and mobile context-based search foreshadowed now commonplace devices and services. Thad has authored over 100 scientific publications with over 100 co-authors on mobile Human Computer Interaction (HCI), pattern discovery, human power generation for mobile devices, and gesture recognition, and he is a founder and current co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems. His work is discussed in public forums both in the United States and internationally, such as CNN, NPR, the BBC, CBS's 60 Minutes, The New York Times, Nikkei Science, The London Independent, The Bangkok Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Social Recommendations Google Tech Talks April, 10 2008 ABSTRACT Social Recommendations will change both the lens through which we see the world as well as the manner in which we experience it. Everything from the media that we consume to the events we attend will be influenced by hyper-relevant results delivered through hierarchical social relationships. This talk demonstrates current efforts to integrate social relationships into recommended user experience including SoMR, the Social Media Recommendation API. Speaker: Dan Carroll Dan is the Director of the SoMR (Social Media Recommendation) project and the CEO of imp, the Intelligent Media Platform. Dan has worked in magazine and book publishing, labor organizing, and at a public policy think tank. He holds a patent in digital media distribution and writes the blog www.mediapatron.com. Dan lives in Mountain View, California and serves on the boards of Echolocations and InRadio. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software and algorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as management of communication and memory hierarchies through a combination of compile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale of computation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, and increased run--time environment variability will make these problems much harder. We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures. Speaker: Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory University of Manchester Jack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University. He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Marketing Talks at Google presents Matt Bailey Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT Analytics Into Action Analytics according to Captain Kirk - The original Star Trek series explains many of the principles of analytics and the necessary tools for understanding visitor motivations, segments and website analysis. By looking deeper into the trekkie phenomenon, analysts can better understand how to make website data actionable and enjoyable. Speaker: Matt Bailey Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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A Possible Future of Software Development Google Tech Talks July, 25 2007 ABSTRACT This talk begins with an overview of software development at Adobe and a look at industry trends towards systems built around object oriented frameworks; why they "work", and why they ultimately fail to deliver quality, scalable, software. We'll look at a possible alternative to this future, combining generic programming with declarative programming to build high quality, scalable systems. Speaker: Sean Parent Sean Parent is a principal scientist at Adobe Systems and engineering manager of the Adobe Software Technology Lab. One of his team's current projects is the Adobe Source Libraries Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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JRuby: The power of Java and Ruby Google Tech Talks February, 28 2008 Speaker: Ola Bini I work for ThoughtWorks Studios, and recently published the book Practical JRuby on Rails at APress. I'm very interested in Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Ruby and the fuzzy lines between languages... Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Theory and Practice of Cryptography Google Tech Talks November, 28 2007 Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in Cryptography This talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pm Speaker: Steve Weis Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Implementing Drupal Google Tech Talks October, 8 2007 ABSTRACT Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Producer at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Angie Byron of Lullabot will talk aboout Drupal development and implementation. Speaker: Geoff Butterfield Speaker: Angie Byron Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Theory and Practice of Cryptography Google Tech Talks December, 19 2007 Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in Cryptography This talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pm Speaker: Steve Weis Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Google IPv6 Conference 2008: What will the IPv6 Internet look like? Google Tech Talks January, 29 2008 ABSTRACT Panel discussion on What will the IPv6 Internet look like? Speaker: Panel Discussion Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Theory and Practice of Cryptography Google Tech Talks Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice and at Google, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in Cryptography This talk is one in a series hosted by Google University: Wednesdays, 11/28/07 - 12/19/07 from 1-2pm Speaker: Steve Weis Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: GWT in Eclipse Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex Speaker: Bruce Johnson, Google Building high-performance Ajax easily with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in Eclipse has always been possible, but soon it will be downright easy. Bruce will present GWT's upcoming Eclipse plugin that helps novices get started and lets experts fly. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Theory and Practice of Cryptography Google Tech Talks December, 12 2007 ABSTRACT Topics include: Introduction to Modern Cryptography, Using Cryptography in Practice, Proofs of Security and Security Definitions and A Special Topic in Cryptography Speaker: Steve Weis Steve Weis received his PhD from the Cryptography and Information Security group at MIT, where he was advised by Ron Rivest. He is a member of Google's Applied Security (AppSec) team and is the technical lead for Google's internal cryptographic library, KeyMaster. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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IntelliJ IDEA Architecture and Performance Google Tech Talks May, 5 2008 ABSTRACT Dmitry Jemerov, Development Lead for IntelliJ IDEA at JetBrains, will explain: - performance optimization techniques used in IntelliJ IDEA - the factors affecting IntelliJ IDEA performance in normal use Speaker: Dmitry Jemerov Dmitry Jemerov is Development Lead for IntelliJ at JetBrains in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is also the author of the Python plugin and the Perforce integration plugin. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Google IPv6 Conference 2008: IPv6, Nokia, and Google Google Tech Talks January, 29 2008 ABSTRACT IPv6, Nokia, and Google Speaker: Bob Hinden Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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How To Break Web Software - A look at security... Google TechTalks April 13, 2006 Mike Andrews Mike Andrews is a senior consultant who specializes in software security and leads the web application security assessments and Ultimate Web Hacking classes for Foundstone. ABSTRACT It all started out as a place to share physics documents, but has grown into potentially mankind's largest and most complex creation. The World Wide Web is a lot of things - a soapbox for everyone, a giant shopping mall, an application platform, and unfortunately a hacker's playground. As more applications get "web-ified" moving from the desktop or legacy systems onto the web, attackers follow the vulnerabilities. Without sophisticated tools or "1337 5x1llz", web... Tags: web security GoogleTechTalks Education |
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The New NIO, aka JSR-203 Google Tech Talks May, 1 2008 ABSTRACT JSR-203 is the NIO update JSR scheduled for release with Java 7. This talk will present an overview of the new NIO features and improvements. Speaker: Alan Bateman Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Spec lead on JSR-203. Speaker: Carl Quinn Software Engineer at Google. E.g. member on JSR-203. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Larry Wall Speaks at Google Google Tech Talks June 19, 2008 ABSTRACT While visiting Chicago for Yet Another Perl Conference, Larry Wall will be visiting the Chicago Google office to speak about the conference, the language, and the community. Speaker: Larry Wall Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Research Networking Google Tech Talks January, 28 2008 ABSTRACT Topics include: * New applications and apps usage/deployment and the challenges they pose for networks * Network trends in the R&E community. o towards network virtualisation (circuits as a service/light paths provisioned by users or applications on demand) - "Articulated Private Networks" o inter-network control, managing QoS / lightpaths and other performance attributes across network domains o sustainability issues - reducing the Carbon footprint of the network itself and our users Speaker: Donald Clark, Chief Executive, REANNZ (Research & Education Advanced Network NZ Ltd) Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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WINE Conf 2007 - Wine and Direct3D Google Tech Talks October, 7 2007 ABSTRACT Direct3D in Wine: StefanDösinger gave a short talk about the current Direct3D state: * State a year ago * Work done since then * Examples of games running on Wine * Windows port * MacOS port * Automated testing * Direct3D 10 * DirectDraw improvements * Performance * Future Plans Speaker: Stefan Dosinger Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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HD 101: A Beginners Guide to Consumer HD Google Tech Talks June, 27 2008 ABSTRACT This Tech Talk is designed to in two parts and covers the basics of high definition video for consumers and the basics for video production and post production. This talk will cover the current HD delivery formats in the US and their relationship to consumer equipment (e.g. television, home video) and installation. Different viewing methods will be compared including direct displays vs projection. Speaker: Dave Van Hoy Speaker: Brian Rutz Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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BayPIGgies Monthly Meeting: Python on the OLPC XO Laptop Google Tech Talks January, 11 2008 ABSTRACT This is not your father's laptop. Capabilities include mesh networking, an innovative user interface (Sugar), music and photos and video, easy collaboration with others, and Python as the lingua franca. Aaron, Ed, and Charles introduce the XO laptop for Python programmers. Speaker: Aaron Maxwell Speaker: Ed Cherlin Speaker: Charles Merriam Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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KDE4 Release Event Keynote Google Tech Talks January, 19 2008 ABSTRACT Celebration of the KDE 4.0 release, a culmination of several years of design, development and testing. Speaker: Aaron Seigo President of KDE e.V. and Trolltech developer Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Asian Values and Leadership in Corporate America Google Tech Talks October, 18 2007 ABSTRACT Asian Values and Leadership in Corporate America Speaker: Chee Chew Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Wiring Hacker Synapses Google Tech Talks June 24, 2008 ABSTRACT Eclipse Day at the Googleplex Wiring Hacker Synapses: Collaborative Coding and Team Tooling in Eclipse by Scott Lewis, Composent & Mustafa K. Isik ECF is a communication framework and an increasing set of integrated tools. ECF provides APIs useful for the development of Equinox-based servers, RCP applications, and Eclipse-based development tools. The provider architecture supports the use of existing communications services, such as Google Talk and UI integration with web-based services, and other Eclipse-based tools. For example, for the upcoming Ganymede release, ECF is working on real-time shared editing of source code to support distributed team use cases like code reviews and collaborative debugging. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Google IPv6 Conference 2008: IPv6 on Windows Google Tech Talks January, 29 2008 ABSTRACT IPv6 on Windows Speaker: David Holder Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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KNFB Reader, Talking OCR On Cell Phones Google Tech Talks March, 26 2008 ABSTRACT KNFB Reader, Talking OCR On Cell Phones www.knfbreader.com Speaker: James Gashel Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Open Office Training Google Tech Talks June 6, 2008 ABSTRACT Open Office Training Speaker: Michelle Murrian Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
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Balance, Stress, and Optimal Health Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT Often acknowledged as one of the fathers of Mind/Body Medicine, Dr. Miller is a physician, poet, musician, and master storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective. His commitment to helping us to reclaim our inborn personal wisdom, integrated with the scientific knowledge and techniques of modern medicine, has allowed him to unite seemingly disparate fields of knowledge and experience. Dr. Miller brings us a deeper understanding of how the mind and body can work in harmony to produce healing, balance and wellness. Speaker: Dr. Emmett Miller www.drmiller.com Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |