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08:42:07 05/21/12
Research at Google at WWW 2012
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Research at Google at WWW 2012
More than forty members of Google's technical team traveled to Lyon, France for the World Wide Web (WWW) conference, April 18 - 20. We sponsored the conference, the Best Paper Award and four PhD student travel grants. We hosted a busy Google booth, an After Hours event for 100 members of the academic community, and a new program, Google Doctoral Forum, for PhD students. Check out a recap by Google Research Scientist Ed H. Chi on all the facets of Google's support of the WWW community. From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 2025 24 ratings Time: 02:18 More in People & Blogs
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10:52:39 05/16/12
Social Entrepreneurship: Where Theory Meets Practice
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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 Residence at Stanford (SEERS). The SEERS will share their experience of how they initiated programs in Bosnia, San Francisco, and Palestine to address violence against women, expand opportunities for low income workers, and mobilize public opinion in order to increase the engagement of marginalized communities in the democratic process. The SEERS will talk about what they are currently doing at Stanford to bridge the gap between theory and practice as part of an innovative class entitled, "Challenging the Status Quo: Social Entrepreneurs Advancing Democracy, Development and Justice." Kavita and the SEERS will speak about how the new program on Social Entrepreneurship was designed and launched and describe ways in which it seeks to add momentum to global social movements, deepen the capacity of social change leaders, bring practitioner experience to academia, and infuse their own work with a deeper sense of the analysis and theory of social change. SPEAKER INFO Kavita Ramdas, Executive Director of Ripples to Waves: The Stanford Program on Social Entrepreneurship, and former CEO of the ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 1660 26 ratings Time: 51:36 More in Nonprofits & Activism
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19:57:24 05/10/12
Is the Higgs Boson there? Why do we care?
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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 for our understanding of nature at the smallest distances and what challenges it presents for theoretical physics. Speaker Bio: Edward Farhi was trained as a theoretical particle physicist but has also worked on astrophysics, general relativity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics. His present interest is the theory of quantum computation. As a graduate student, Farhi invented the jet variable "Thrust," which is used to describe how particles in high energy accelerator collisions come out in collimated streams. He then worked with Leonard Susskind on grand unified theories with electro-weak dynamical symmetry breaking. He and Larry Abbott proposed an (almost viable) model in which quarks, leptons, and massive gauge bosons are composite. With Robert Jaffe, he worked out many of the properties of a possibly stable super dense form of matter called "Strange Matter" and with Charles Alcock and Angela Olinto he studied the properties of "Strange Stars." His interest then shifted to general relativity and he and Alan Guth studied the classical and quantum prospects of making a new ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 4272 118 ratings Time: 01:27:49 More in Science & Technology
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08:56:57 05/03/12
Let's Go Further: Build Concurrent Software using the Go Programming Language
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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 of core libraries to provide a stable foundation for creating reliable products, projects, and publications, was recently released and available for use. Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java. Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing. Finally, it is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 9594 115 ratings Time: 01:09:03 More in Science & Technology
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15:37:48 04/27/12
The Patent Pollution Problem: Its Causes, Effects and Solutions
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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 is claimed by the patent. Thus, it is critically important to the success of our patent system that it maintain high patent quality and ensures only deserving patents are issued. Unfortunately, the American patent system today is suffering from extremely low patent quality. Every Tuesday the Patent Office issues 4000 patents after spending on average less than a couple days in reviewing the merits of each patent application. When asked to reconsider the merits of patents it previously issued, the Patent Office concedes that the vast majority of them have questionable validity. When patents end up in court as a result of patent owners suing alleged infringers, a large percentage of the time those asserted patents are found to have been improperly granted. The result is a polluted patent system littered with trash patents that impede technological development. In this Google Tech Talk, Prof. Daniel B. Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of law will explain why patent quality is so low in America today, describe in detail the ways in which low patent ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 4680 133 ratings Time: 01:02:18 More in Science & Technology
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16:20:48 04/26/12
The Second Copernican Revolution: Our Changing View of Our Place in the Universe
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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 technologies and techniques are enabling the detection, observation and study of Earth-like planets around other stars. And several deep-space missions are currently exploring potentially-habitable worlds within our Solar System as possible abodes for life beyond the Earth. As one such mission, the two intrepid robotic explorers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been exploring the surface of Mars for evidence of past habitable environments that could have supported life. The rovers have traversed great plains, climbed mountains, descended into deep craters and survived rover-killing dust storms and frigid winters. Both rovers have found clues that Mars was once Earth-like with a potential for life. Soon they will be joined by another larger, more capable rover on the surface. Within the next few years, we may be poised to answering that central question, "Are we alone in the Universe?" Speaker Info: John L. Callas, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has been project manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover project since March 2006. Previously, as science manager and then ... From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 4949 112 ratings Time: 55:23 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:29 04/25/12
Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Geometry in Motion: From Turing Machines to Crawling Ants
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 980 4 ratings Time: 42:15 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:29 04/25/12
Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 566 2 ratings Time: 43:26 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:29 04/25/12
Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: Turing's Estimation Technique and Large-scale Machine Learning
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 1168 23 ratings Time: 41:11 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:29 04/25/12
Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference: From Turing to Contemporary Systems and Beyond
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 638 10 ratings Time: 44:37 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:28 04/25/12
Alan M. Turing Centennial Conference - Israel
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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 day-long conference featured speeches from some of today's top computer scientists For more information see: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 576 8 ratings Time: 01:54 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:28 04/25/12
Turing Centennial Conference: A Non-probabilistic Approach to Classification of Individual Sequences
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 484 1 ratings Time: 43:05 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:28 04/25/12
Turing Centennial Conference: From Programs to Systems: Building a Smarter World
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 429 6 ratings Time: 39:01 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:28 04/25/12
Turing Centennial Conference: Turing Test and Thinking Machines
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 469 4 ratings Time: 43:31 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:28 04/25/12
Turing Centennial Conference: Turing, Church, Gödel, Computability, Complexity and Randomization
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Turing Centennial Conference: Turing, Church, G%oumldel, Computability, Complexity and Randomization
Turing, Church, G%oumldel, 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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 873 17 ratings Time: 39:12 More in Science & Technology
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09:28:27 04/25/12
Turing Centennial Conference: About Alan Turing (in Hebrew)
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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: sites.google.com From: GoogleTechTalks Views: 355 2 ratings Time: 12:06 More in Science & Technology
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