Social Entrepreneurship: Where Theory Meets Practice

Google Tech Talk May 15, 2012 Presented by Kavita Ramdas with Taida Horozovic, Ramzi Jaber, and Steve Williams ABSTRACT Ripples to Waves: The Stanford Program on Social Entrepreneurship presents Kavita Ramdas, Executive Director of Ripples to Waves and former CEO of the Global Fund for Women, in conversation with Taida Horozovic, Steve Williams and Ramzi Jaber, 3 Social Entrepreneurs in Residen...

Google Doctoral Forum at CHI 2012

Google Doctoral Forum at CHI 2012, Tuesday, May 8: Google hosted 60 PhD students attending CHI 2012 in Austin, familiarizing them with the model of research at Google. A panel of 6 researchers working on various problems in Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Research and Design fielded tough questions ranging from twenty percent projects to work/life balance. This video features a few ...

Is the Higgs Boson there? Why do we care?

Abstract: The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest and most complicated scientific device ever built. It smashes together high energy protons in order to create new forms of matter. The accelerator has been running well and the detectors have accumulated vast amounts of data. There are now hints of the long sought after Higgs Boson. I will attempt to explain what this possible discovery means f...

Let's Go Further: Build Concurrent Software using the Go Programming Language

Google Tech Talk April 25, 2012 Presented by Sameer Ajmani ABSTRACT Go is an open source programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. One of Go's key design goals is code adaptability; that it should be easy to take a simple design and build upon it in a clean and natural way. Go Version 1 (or Go 1 for short), which defines a language and a set o...

Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel

On April 4th, 2012, Over 600 people gathered at the Wohl Conference Center on the Bar-Ilan University campus in Israel to celebrate the life of Alan Turing, as part of world celebration of the centenary of this truly great person's birth. Sponsored by Google's R&D Center in Israel, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Israeli Centers for Research Excellence (i-Core), the d...

Turing Centennial Conference: A Non-probabilistic Approach to Classification of Individual Sequences

An Axiomatic, Non-probabilistic Approach to Classification of Individual Sequences Presented by Prof. Jacob Ziv, Technion Institute Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: Introductory Remarks (Hebrew and English)

Introductory Remarks (Hebrew and English) Presented by Prof. Yossi Matias, Google Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: About Alan Turing (in Hebrew)

About Alan Turing (in Hebrew) Presented by Prof. Amiram Yehudai, Tel Aviv University Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: Welcome (in Hebrew)

Welcome (in Hebrew) Prof. Shmuel Klein, Bar-Ilan University Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: Turing Test and Thinking Machines

Turing Test and Thinking Machines Presented by Prof. Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: Turing, Church, Gödel, Computability, Complexity and Randomization

Turing, Church, Gödel, Computability, Complexity and Randomization Presented by Prof. Michael Rabin, Turing Award laureate, Hebrew University & Harvard University Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Turing's Estimation Technique and Large-scale Machine Learning

Turing's Estimation Technique and Large-scale Machine Learning Presented by Prof. Corinna Cortes, Google Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Geometry in Motion: From Turing Machines to Crawling Ants

Geometry in Motion: From Turing Machines to Crawling Ants Presented by Prof. Micha Sharir, Tel Aviv University Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: From Turing to Contemporary Systems and Beyond

From Turing to Contemporary Systems and Beyond Presented by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research, Google Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant

Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person's Experience of Turing's Impact Presented by Prof. David Harel, Weizmann Institute Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

Turing Centennial Conference: From Programs to Systems: Building a Smarter World

From Programs to Systems: Building a Smarter World Presented by Prof. Joseph Sifakis, Turing Award laureate, VERIMAG Laboratory and EPFL Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel April 4, 2012 The Wohl Centre Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel For more information see: https://sites.google.com/site/turingcentenaryconference/agenda

The Patent Pollution Problem: Its Causes, Effects and Solutions

Google Tech Talk April 26, 2012 Presented by Daniel B. Ravicher ABSTRACT America's patent system dates back to the founding of our nation when it was expressly included in the Constitution. To be sure, a patent system can provide many great benefits to society. However, patents also pose a great threat to society because the issuance of a patent makes it illegal for any American to do whatever ...

The Second Copernican Revolution: Our Changing View of Our Place in the Universe

Abstract: Five hundred years ago, Copernicus advanced the theory that the Earth was not the center of the Solar System. That theory revolutionized our understanding of the Universe. It was initially met with great opposition because of what it meant about our own significance. Today there is a second Copernican revolution underway that will once again alter our significance. Advances in technol...

The Mobile Revolution: Cultivating Boundaries of the Unbounded

Google Tech Talk March 2, 2012 Presented by Professor Carsten Sørensen. ABSTRACT There are over 5 billion mobile phone connections globally and a growing number of other mobile information technologies permeate all aspects of life. The more than 1 billion mobile phones in developing countries is rapidly coming close to matching the global total of 2 billion fixed Internet connections in 2008. I...

Energy, the Environment, and What We Can Do

Google Tech Talk February 13, 2012 Presented by Professor John Baez, UC Riverside. ABSTRACT Our heavy reliance on fossil fuels is causing two serious problems: global warming, and the decline of cheaply available oil reserves. Unfortunately the second problem will not cancel out the first. Each one individually seems extremely hard to solve, and taken together they demand a major worldwide effo...

SeriousGames@Google: Playing Surgery - A Laparoscopy Game for Surgeons on the Nintendo Wii

Google Tech Talk March 9, 2012 Presented by Henk ten Cate Hoedemaker, Tim Laning, and Jetse Goris. ABSTRACT Laparascopic (or keyhole) surgery is challenging for surgeons and can be dangerous for patients. The surgeons who perform these procedures need ongoing training and hands on practice. The University Medical Centers of Groningen and Leeuwarden in the Netherlands have teamed up with game de...

Automating Your Browser Based Testing Using WebDriver

Google Tech Talk March 16, 2012 Presented by Simon Stewart ABSTRACT Selenium WebDriver (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/GettingStarted ) is a tool for automating testing web applications, and in particular to verify that they work as expected. It aims to provide a friendly API that's easy to explore and understand, which will help make your tests easier to read and maintain. It's not tie...

The Genome Question: Moore vs. Jevons with Bud Mishra

Google Tech Talk March 27, 2012 ABSTRACT It is often said that genomics science is on a Moore's law, growing exponentially in data throughput, number of assembled genomes, lowered cost, etc.; and yet, it has not delivered the biomedical promises made a decade ago: personalized medicine; genomic characterization of diseases like cancer, schizophrenia, and autism; bio-markers for common complex d...

Beyond Princess Leia in a Beam of Light: A Glimpse into the Future of Augmented Reality

Google Tech Talk March 12, 2012 Presented by Prof. Ken Perlin, NYU. ABSTRACT There is something incredibly right about the vision George Lucas showed us back in 1977. Displays that hover in the air between us promise a world that privileges face to face communication -- a far more human-centric vision than our current reality, in which we spend our days staring into computer screens. Such holog...

Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk

Google Tech Talk March 21, 2012 Presented by Michael Barnathan, Software Engineer, Google Greg Estren, Software Engineer, Google Pepper Lebeck-Jobe, Software Engineer, Google ABSTRACT At past Google NYC Tech Talks, we learned about tools that helped Google engineers automate quality testing, so that Google products could be released frequently without extensive manual testing phases or manual i...

NIPS 2011 Sparse Representation & Low-rank Approximation Workshop: Group Sparse Hidden Markov...

Sparse Representation and Low-rank Approximation Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Group Sparse Hidden Markov Models by Jen-Tzung Chien, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Vowpal Wabbit Tutorial

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Tutorial: Vowpal Wabbit by John Langford Abstract: We present a system and a set of techniques for learning linear predictors with convex losses on terascale datasets, with trillions of features,\footnote{The number of features here refers to the number of non-zero entries in the data matrix.} billions of t...

The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away

Google Tech Talk February 14, 2012 Presented by Ron Garret. ABSTRACT The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away The Remote Agent Experiment (RAX) was an autonomous control system for an unmanned interplanetary spacecraft called New Millennium Deep Space 1 (DS1). In May, 1999, control of the DS1 spacecraft, a $150-million asset, was handed over to the Remote Agent sof...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Machine Learning's Role...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Machine Learning's Role in the Search for Fundamental Particles by Daniel Whiteson Daniel Whiteson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UC Irvine. His research area is experimental particle physics, using data from the world's most powerful colliders to ans...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning Workshop - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools for Learning at Scale: NeuFlow...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: NeuFlow: A Runtime Reconfigurable Dataflow Processor for Vision by Yann LeCun (with Clement Farabet) Yann LeCun is Silver Professor of Computer Science and Neural Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Center for Neural Science of New York University. His current int...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: A Unified Probabilistic Model of Note Combinations..

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: A Unified Probabilistic Model of Note Combinations and Chord Progressions by Kazuyoshi Yoshii, Matthias Mauch, Masataka Goto

Knowledge is... Love

Google Tech Talk January 18, 2012 Presented by Father Laurence Freeman ABSTRACT Different kinds of knowing - but the most human kind reveals our universal kinship and transforms relationship. Meditation is more than you think. The oldest and youngest form of human wisdom makes good sense in a digital age. Speaker Info: Father Laurence Freeman is a benedictine monk whose work in teaching meditat...

Meditate with Father Laurence Freeman

Google Tech Talk January 18, 2012 Presented by Father Laurence Freeman Speaker Info: Father Laurence Freeman is a benedictine monk whose work in teaching meditation and interfaith friendship takes place in a global community formed by the daily practice of dynamic stillness and transformative silence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Freeman

NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop: Recursive Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing...

Learning Semantics Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Recursive Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision by Richard Socher Richard Socher is a third year Ph.D student, in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He enjoys research in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. Abstract: Hierarchical and recursive structure is common...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning melodic analysis rules

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Learning melodic analysis rules by David Rizo

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Automating Music Search and Recommendation

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Automating Music Search and Recommendation: an Active and Dynamic Learning Process by Gert Lanckriet Gert Lanckriet is an Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on convex optimization ...

NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning

Learning Semantics Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning by Léon Bottou Léon Bottou is a research scientist with broad interests in practical and theoretical machine learning. His work on large scale learning and stochastic gradient algorithms has received attention in the recent years. Léon is also known for the DjVu document compression system. Abstrac...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Variations on a theme: Factorisation based models...

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Variations on a theme: Factorisation based models for analysis of temporal structure in musical audio by Taylan Cemgil Ali Taylan Cemgil, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received is B.Sc. (1993) and M.Sc. (...

NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop: Learning Semantics of Movement

Learning Semantics Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Learning Semantics of Movement by Timo Honkela Abstract: In this presentation, we consider how to computationally model the interrelated processes of understanding natural language and perceiving and producing movement in multimodal real world contexts. Movement is the specific focus of this presentation for several reasons. For instance, i...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Symbolic Music Information Retrieval with music21

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Symbolic Music Information Retrieval with music21: New Applications to Score Following and Feature Extraction Beyond MIDI by Jordi Bartolomé Guillen

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: This is the Remix: Structural Improvisation...

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: This is the Remix: Structural Improvisation using Automated Pattern Discovery by Sean Whalen Sean Whalen is a postdoctoral researcher in the IDS lab at Columbia University, focusing on anomaly detection in the cloud for the MEERKATS project. His research interests include computer secur...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Music Recommendation

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Music Recommendation by Kira Radinsky Kira Radinsky is a PhD Computer-Science student (since 2010/05) in the Technion, graduate of the Technion Excellence program. Today, she is working as a researcher at Microsoft Research Israel.

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Machine Learning...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Machine Learning and Hadoop by Josh Wills Abstract: We'll review common use cases for machine learning and advanced analytics found in our customer base at Cloudera and ways in which Apache Hadoop supports these use cases. We'll then discuss upcoming developments for Apache Hadoop that will en...

NIPS 2011 Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure

International Music and Machine Learning Workshop: Learning from Musical Structure at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: A Topic Model for Melodic Sequences by Athina Spiliopoulou Athina is a PhD student in the Machine Learning group of the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation at the School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh. She works with Amos Storkey on Machine Learning methods for music, ...

A Chinese Typewriter in Silicon Valley

Google Tech Talk December 5, 2011 A Chinese Typewriter in Silicon Valley: What 150 Years of Chinese Information Technology can Teach the Alphabetic World Presented by Thomas S. Mullaney. ABSTRACT In 1862, an eccentric Frenchman published two essays about telegraphy: the first, a proposal for a Chinese telegraph code, and the second, a critique of Morse Code. Inspired by his study of Chinese, he...

NIPS 2011 Domain Adaptation Workshop: Domain Adaptation with Multiple Latent Domains

Domain Adaptation Workshop: Theory and Application at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Domain Adaptation with Multiple Latent Domains by Kate Saenko Abstract: Domain adaptation is important for practical applications of supervised learning, as the distribution of inputs can differ significantly between available sources of training data and the test data in a particular target domain. Many domain adapta...

NIPS 2011 Domain Adaptation Workshop: Overfitting and Small Sample Statistics

Domain Adaptation Workshop: Theory and Application at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Overfitting and Small Sample Statistics by Ruslan Salakhutdinov Abstract: We study the prevalent problem when a test distribution differs from the training distribution. We consider a setting where our training set consists of a small number of sample domains, but where we have many samples in each domain. Our goal is...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: A Common GPU...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: A Common GPU n-Dimensional Array for Python and C by Arnaud Bergeron Abstract: Currently there are multiple incompatible array/matrix/n-dimensional base object implementations for GPUs. This hinders the sharing of GPU code and causes duplicate development work.This paper proposes and presents ...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Real time data...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Real time data sketches by Alex Smola Alex is a Principal Researcher at Yahoo. Alex's current research focus is on nonparametric methods for estimation, in particular kernel methods and exponential families. This includes support vector Machines, gaussian processes, and conditional random fiel...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Hazy - Making Data-driven...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Hazy: Making Data-driven Statistical Applications Easier to build and Maintain by Chris Re Christopher (Chris) Ré is currently an assistant professor in the department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The goal of his work is to enable users and developers to build a...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Graphlab 2...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Graphlab 2: The Challenges of Large Scale Computation on Natural Graphs by Carlos Guestrin Carlos Guestrin is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science and Machine Learning Departments. Carlos has conducted research in (1) learning and control in large-scale structured envir...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: No-U-Turn Sampler...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo by Matt Hoffman Matt Hoffman is a postdoc working with Prof. Andrew Gelman at Columbia University. His did his Ph.D. at Princeton University in Computer Science working in the Sound Lab with Prof. Perry Cook and ...

The Relative Happiness Index (RHI)

Google Tech Talk December 2, 2011 Presented by Pierre Côté. ABSTRACT Can happiness be a science? Can we actually qualify happiness with scientific notions instead of esoteric ones? How can happiness be useful? Are women happier than men? Is Montreal a happier metropolis than Quebec city? What can we learn from happiness? Brace yourself for Pierre Côté, the creator of the Relative Happiness Inde...

3D Computer Vision: Past, Present, and Future

Google Tech Talk August 15, 2011 Presented by Steve Seitz ABSTRACT 3D Computer Vision: Past, Present, and Future

NIPS 2011 Learning Semantics Workshop: Towards More Human-like Machine Learning of Word Meanings

Learning Semantics Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Towards More Human-like Machine Learning of Word Meanings by Josh Tenenbaum Josh Tenenbaum is a Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Him and his colleagues in the Computational Cognitive Science group study one of the most basic and distinctively human aspects of cognition: th...

NIPS 2011 Sparse Representation & Low-rank Approximation Workshop: Local Analysis...

Sparse Representation and Low-rank Approximation Workshop at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Local Analysis of Sparse Coding in the Presence of Noise by Rodolphe Jenatton, INRIA / Ecole Normale Supérieure Abstract: A popular approach within the signal processing and machine learning communities consists in modelling signals as sparse linear combinations of atoms selected from a learned dictionary. Whil...

NIPS 2011 Big Learning - Algorithms, Systems, & Tools Workshop: Big Machine Learning...

Big Learning Workshop: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale at NIPS 2011 Invited Talk: Big Machine Learning made Easy by Miguel Araujo Miguel Araujo holds a B.S and M.S in computer science from Universidad Antonio de Nebrija and San Diego State University. He is a Machine Learning addict and an active open source hacker that enjoys coding in Python. Miguel is a contributor in op...

Agile C++ with Supporting Eclipse CDT Plug-ins

Google Tech Talk January 23, 2012 Presented by Peter Sommerlad. ABSTRACT At IFS institute for software several plug-ins have been developed for Eclipse CDT easing the live of Agile C++ developers. Some of the features have already been integrated into CDT's main feature, such as the refactoring infrastructure and some refactorings, like toggling function definition and declaration. In this talk...

Santa Tracker - 1.6 Million Requests per Second

Google Tech Talk January 11, 2012 Presented by Bruno Bowden ABSTRACT Santa Tracker runs on Christmas Eve to allow children the world over to follow Santa as he travels around the world. It has the unusual distinction of being a very large synchronized online service, generating large homogenous loads. This talk covers the technical aspect of how the service is run by Google, including how it ex...

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Will Extreme Poverty Ever End?

Google Tech Talk January 13, 2012 Presented by Jake Harriman. ABSTRACT $2.3 trillion in aid and thousands of NGOs have worked to ease the suffering of the poor; yet 1.4 billion people still remain locked in the cycle of extreme poverty. In the face of such an enormous, global challenge, why on earth would anyone start another NGO? Hear Jake Harriman, former Force Recon Platoon Commander for the...

The Expedition For the Future

Google Tech Talk January 4, 2012 Presented by Jason Rodi ABSTRACT

HCIR 2011: Human Computer Information Retrieval - Concluding Session

HCIR 2011 The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval October 20, 2011 Mountain View, CA Concluding Presentations more info at: http://hcir.info/hcir-2011

HCIR 2011: Human Computer Information Retrieval Introduction Session "Poster Boasters"

HCIR 2011 The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval October 20, 2011 Mountain View, CA Introduction Session and "Poster Boasters" more info at: http://hcir.info/hcir-2011

HCIR 2011: Human Computer Information Retrieval - Presentation II

HCIR 2011 The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval October 20, 2011 Mountain View, CA Afternoon Session Presentations II more info at: http://hcir.info/hcir-2011

HCIR 2011: Keynote: Dr. Gary Marchionini, "HCIR: Now the Tricky Part"

HCIR 2011 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval October 20, 2011 Mountain View, CA Keynote Address Dr. Gary Marchionini, "HCIR: Now the Tricky Part" for more info: http://hcir.info/hcir-2011

HCIR 2011: Human Computer Information Retrieval - Presentation I

HCIR 2011 The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval October 20, 2011 Mountain View, CA Morning Session Presentations I more info at: http://hcir.info/hcir-2011

The Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor: Why Didn't This Happen (and why is now the right time?)

Google Tech Talk December 16, 2011 Presented by Kirk Sorensen

Mobile Web Performance

Google Tech Talk November 10, 2011 Presented by Guy Podjarny ABSTRACT Mobile Web browsing is exploding and with it the importance of Mobile Web Performance. Studies show that Mobile users expect equal or better performance than desktop, where they demand 2s load times. This is a hard requirement to fulfill, give the limitations mobile imposes. In this presentation, we'll go over the different a...

Our Place in the Cosmos

Google Tech Talk (more info below) December 1, 2011 Presented by Raja (Puragra) GuhaThakurta. ABSTRACT The lecture "Our Place in the Cosmos" explains how we (and, for that matter, all complex life forms) are connected to the Universe around us. This connection relies on the fact that our Milky Way and other galaxies like it play host to cosmic recycling processes that involve the form...

Exporting 3D Scenes from Maya to WebGL Using Clang and LLVM

Google Tech Talk (more info below) November 17, 2011 Presented by Jochen Wilhelmy ABSTRACT This talk presents a way to export 3D scenes from Autodesk Maya directly to WebGL. This aims at simplifying the process of content creation for the new WebGL standard which is important for its wide adoption. A key insight is that Maya's dependency graph can be seen as a graphical programming language whi...

The Pleasure Revolution: Why Games Will Lead the Way (Jesse Schell)

Google Tech Talk November 10, 2011 Presented by Jesse Schell. ABSTRACT In the 21st century, it turns out that the principles for designing videogames have become the principles for designing everything. In this talk, Jesse explains some of the surprising consequences of the new world of pleasure-based design. About the Speaker: Jesse is the CEO of Schell Games, the largest game studio in Pennsy...

GTAC 2011: The Latest in Google Test Tools

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Ibrahim El Far and Jason Arbon ABSTRACT Today's test engineering is labor intensive, requires expensive switches in context, involves so much grunt work that it stifles creativity and slows down productivity, and, ...

GTAC 2011: Closing Keynote - Secrets of World Class Software Organizations

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Steve McConnell. ABSTRACT Construx consultants work with literally hundreds of software organizations each year. Among these organizations, a few stand out as being truly world class. They are exceptional in their ...

GTAC 2011: Lightning Talks II (Web Testing)

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Lightning Talks II - a series of 5 minute talks on Web Testing. For abstracts and speaker bios, please see http://www.gtac.biz/speakers . Mobile Web Testing Using WebDriver Dounia Berrada, Google jstestnet: CI with JavaScript I...

GTAC 2011: Keynote - Part the Clouds and See Fact from Fiction

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Anthony Voellm. ABSTRACT The world of building software is undergoing rapid changes with the shift from desktop applications to highly connected and ubiquitous applications served from the Cloud. The shift to the C...

GTAC 2011: Browser Automation with NodeJS and Jellyfish

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Adam Christian. ABSTRACT In a world where Javascript is everywhere; your browser, server, database, mobile device -- you want and need code resuse to speed up development. In order to do this, you need to know that...

GTAC 2011: How to Hit a Moving Target in the Cloud

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Vishal Chowdhary, Microsoft ABSTRACT In this session, we share our experiences for testing the Microsoft Translator (MT) service. Testing the translator service can be divided into two broad areas -- (1) Testing of...

GTAC 2011: Web Consistency Testing

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Kevin Menard. ABSTRACT Web Consistency Testing is a new form of automated Web testing that answers the simple question "does this page look the way it should?". Historically, the way a page looks has been...

GTAC 2011: Keynote - How Hackers See Bugs

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Hugh Thompson, People Security.

GTAC 2011: Angular

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Misko Hevery. ABSTRACT Angular teaches your old browser new tricks. It is what HTML would have been had it been designed for building web-applications. Angular is radical because it eliminates boilerplate code with...

GTAC 2011: WebDriver

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Simon Stewart. ABSTRACT Google has a unique infrastructure for running web tests. This talk will focus on how this infrastructure evolved, from running tests on local machines, all the way up to the sophisticated t...

Human Perception Viewed as a Phenotypic Expression

Google Tech Talk October 26, 2011 Presented by Dennis Proffitt. ABSTRACT Visual experience relates the optically-specified environment to people's ever-changing purposes and the embodied means by which these purposes are achieved. Depending upon their purpose, people turn themselves into walkers, throwers, graspers, etc., and in so doing, they perceive the world in relation to what they have be...

GTAC 2011: BidiChecker: Automated Bidi Testing of Web Applications

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Yana Margolin and Jason Elbaum. ABSTRACT BidiChecker is a tool for the automated testing of web pages for errors in support of right-to-left (RTL) languages, also known as bidirectional (bidi) because they routinel...

GTAC 2011: Developing and Testing WebGL

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Roy Williams. ABSTRACT WebGL will enable developers to create richer web applications than ever before by giving developers full access to the GPU on their users' machines. Testing this new capability presents uniq...

GTAC 2011: Automating Hadoop Stack Deployment and Testing

6th Annual Google Test Automation Conference 2011 (GTAC 2011) "Cloudy With A Chance Of Tests" Computer History Museum Mountain View, CA USA October 26-27, 2011 Presented by Andre Arcilla. ABSTRACT Hadoop is the distributed technology that powers Yahoo! grids. Due to the complex nature of the Hadoop ecosystem, Hadoop stack deployment requires significant investments of time and enginee...