Wow private server
Ringbygg
2 min – 15-Aug-07

World of warcraft TBC private server.

REQUIRES: World of warcraft + the burning crusade patch 2.1.3

Easy steps to set up your own server on your computer
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1. Visit

http://files.filefront.com/Install+filerar/;9101492;/fileinfo.html

1.2 Download the "Privateserver" file
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2. Extract with Winrar ( http://files.filefront.com//;8336225;;/ )
2.1 Server is installed and ready to use
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3. Enter: MySql map- bin- and push Mysqld-nt file
3.1 Return to main folder and push: Logonserver.bat & antrix.bat
3.2 Then server is up and running.
3.3 Enter your main world of warcraft folder and open realmlist.wtf in notepad, type: set realmlist 127.0.0.1, save and finish.
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4. Push the wow icon and you’re in. Enter: accountname: Admin Password: Admin to log on.
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5. Your friends can also play on the server, visit the link and it shows you how to.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/how-to-create-a-wow-server/24865-making-antirx-go-public-with-hamachi-the-noob-way-download-included.html

Song name : Voodoo people by Pendulum
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Computer Programming Tutorial, by Nick Antonaccio (#30b)
notchent
10 min – 15-Dec-07

Learn to Create Computer Programs – MYSQL AND DATABASES (2 of 3)

Here are links to this entire video series (currently more than 8 hours total):

http://musiclessonz.com/rebol_video_links.html

These tutorials demonstrate how easy it is to accomplish real world programming goals with a flexible and powerful language called Rebol. The video tutorial closely follows the written text at:

http://musiclessonz.com/rebol_tutorial.html

which aims to teach average users to program computers to do useful things, without the long and difficult learning curve imposed by other programming languages. If you’re an experienced programmer, it’s strongly recommended that you read the more concise tutorial at:

http://musiclessonz.com/rebol.html

You’ll be amazed at Rebol’s compact code and simple cross-platform usability.
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Visual 3D modeling of real-world objects and scenes from images
Google EngEDU
1 hr 3 min – May 1, 2007

Google Tech Talks
May 1, 2007

ABSTRACT

Images and videos form a rich source of information about the visual world. The extraction of 3D information from images is an important research problem in computer vision and graphics. The ubiquitous presence of cameras and the tremendous advances of processing and communication technologies yields important opportunities and challenges in those areas.

My work has focused on developing flexible techniques for recovering 3D shape, motion and appearance from images. A first example of this is an approach to recover photo-realistic 3D models of static objects or scenes from videos recorded with a hand-held camera or on a moving vehicle. A key aspect of our approach is the ability to also recover the geometric and photometric calibration of the camera from the image data so that our techniques can also work with uncalibrated consumer cameras or archive photographs. Towards the end of my talk, I will also briefly discuss approaches to capture dynamic scenes, both from single and multiple cameras. Applications ranging from archaeology and 3D urban modeling, to special effects and 3D tele-medecine will be used to illustrate our work.
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Zero Configuration networking with Bonjour
Google engEDU
1 hr 1 min – Nov 2, 2005

Google TechTalks
November 2, 2005

Dr. Stuart Cheshire, Apple Computer

http://www.stuartcheshire.org/

ABSTRACT
The desirability of making IP networking easy to use has been obvious for many years, but achieving that goal has proved elusive. One day, Stuart Cheshire got tired of fellow Stanford Computer Science PhD students wanting to print from his Mac (via AppleTalk) because they couldn’t work out how to configure their Linux /etc/printcap files to access the network printer they wanted to use via IP, and he decided it was time someone did something about it.

Thus began a long saga, beginning with the formation of the IETF "Zero Configuration Networking" working group, and ending where we are today, with widespread adoption of Stuart Cheshire’s Multicast DNS and DNS Service Discovery technology, or "Bonjour", as Apple likes to call it. Today just about every network printer from just about every printer vendor supports Bonjour, and ships with it enabled by default.
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Hey, What’s That? A Map Hack
Google engEDU
51 min – May 8, 2007

Google Tech Talks
May 8, 2007

ABSTRACT

Designed to answer the question "What am I looking at?" when standing on a hilltop or pulled over at a scenic overlook, HeyWhatsThat.com has garnered reviews like "Just when I thought I was in danger of becoming a jaded customer of the mass mapping space, here’s a site that effortlessly returns me to a state of slack-jawed wonder" (OgleEarth). In addition to peak detection and identification, it offers viewshed computations, elevation contours, elevation profiles, and integration with Google Maps and Google Earth. This talk — given by Michael Kosowsky, designer and proprieter of HeyWhatsThat.com — will focus on what it is and how it got to be that way.

http://www.heywhatsthat.com/

http://www.heywhatsthat.com/faq.html

Speaker: Michael Kosowsky

Michael Kosowsky has more than 25 years of experience in software development, on platforms ranging from embedded microprocessors to supercomputers. Currently sole proprietor of the HeyWhatsThat.com web site, previous roles include founder and CTO of Great Point Design, where he developed its desktop photo application and web service; founder and CTO of Momentum, Inc., where he led the development and patenting of a portable client-server communications technology; and software engineer for The Jackson Laboratory and DNA Sciences, where he implemented systems for visualizing and sharing genomic data.
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How can we better understand customers?
Google engEDU
50 min – Jul 18, 2006

Google TechTalks
July 18, 2006

Ely Dahan

At MIT’s Sloan School of Business, Ely Dahan taught high tech marketing and new product development. He now develops new models and methods for developing products at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business. Dahan has developed internet-based market research methods, mathematical models of parallel and sequential prototyping, the economics of cost reduction, and strategies for mass customization. Prior to entering academia, he was national product manager for W.R. Grace and NEC until 1984, when he founded a computer networking company in Maryland, serving as CEO until the firm was acquired in 1993. He is the recipient, along with his coauthors, of the INFORMS John D.C. Little Award, the American Marketing Association EXPLOR Award, the INFORMS Frank M. Bass Outstanding Dissertation Award (based on Olivier Toubia’s PhD thesis), and the Journal of Product Innovation Managment Hustad Award. Dahan earned his PhD in the Operations & IT program at Stanford Business School, where he was a Department of Energy Fellow, an AACSB Doctoral Fellow, and a recipient of the Jaedicke Prize for scholarly achievement. He attended Princeton University, then received a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from MIT in 1978 and an MBA from Harvard in 1980.
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Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Google engEDU
57 min – Aug 15, 2007

Google Tech Talks
August 15, 2007

ABSTRACT

One of the challenges that the Internet raises is the necessity of designing distributed protocols for settings where the participating computers are owned and operated by different owners with different goals. Over the last decade or so there has been much research that aims to address these issues using ideas taken from the micro-economic field of mechanism design. In this talk I will survey the current state of the field: how mechanism design is applied in computational settings, how far can classical ideas go, and what are the challenges for further research. Among the applications discussed will be combinatorial auctions, cost sharing, scheduling, and routing in networks.
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Away with Applications: The Death of the Desktop
Google engEDU
1 hr 27 min – May 4, 2007

Google Tech Talks
May 4, 2007

ABSTRACT

The computer desktop metaphor is ubiquitous, but how much work do we get done there? None! Time is entirely wasted navigating or shuffling content to the application in which we can finally work. What lessons can we learn from designing interfaces without the desktop and without applications? Is it even possible? And how does this apply to the Web? Currently, Web applications are often more usable than their desktop-based counterparts because each one does one thing and does it well. Desktop applications used to be the same way, but over time — as applications grew to support the the users in the long tail — each became a complex portmanteau of all possible features. If we are not careful, our Web apps will suffer the same conglomerated fate. Mashups and services help to solve the problem on the development end by freeing functionality from any particular application. But, there is currently no way to offer that wealth of possible functionality to users in a scalable way. Would it be nice to embed a dynamic map into your Gmail message? Sure. A Flickr slideshow? Sure. But for Google to offer those in addition to the hundreds of other possible options, would clutter the interface beyond usability. What’s needed is a universal method of accessing functionality: a way of harnessing the power of services without the need for application developers to explicitly support them. I’ll be demonstrating such a method.

The talk demonstrates that a ZUI plus a universal method of accessing functionality spells the death of the application-centric computing model and the desktop-design paradigms.
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Sowing the Seeds for a more Creative Society
Google engEDU
54 min – Oct 26, 2006

Google Tech Talks
October 26, 2006

Mitchel Resnick, Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory, develops new technologies and activities to engage people (especially children) in creative learning experiences. Resnicks Lifelong Kindergarten research group developed ideas and technologies underlying the LEGO Mindstorms and PicoCricket construction kits. He co-founded the Computer Clubhouse project, a network of after-school centers where youth from low-income communities learn to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Resnick earned a BA in physics at Princeton University (1978), and MS and PhD degrees in computer science at MIT (1988, 1992). Resnick has consulted throughout the world on the use of computers in education. He is author of Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams (1994), co-editor of Constructionism in Practice (1996), and co-author of Adventures in Modeling (2001).

ABSTRACT
In the 1980s, many people talked about the transition from the "Industrial Society" to the "Information Society." In the 1990s, people began to talk about the "Knowledge Society." But as I see it, we are now in a transition towards the "Creative Society." Success in the future (for individuals, for companies, for nations as a whole) will be based not on what we know or how much we know, but on our ability to think and act creatively. Unfortunately, current educational practices are woefully inadequate. In this talk, I will discuss new technologies and new educational initiatives designed specifically to help children develop as creative thinkers — so that they are prepared for life in the Creative Society. I will focus especially on two projects we are developing at the MIT Media Lab: (1) a new programming language, called Scratch, that makes it easier for kids to create animated stories, games, and interactive art — and share their creations with one another online ( http://scratch.mit.edu), and (2) a new breed of construction kit that combines art and technology, enabling kids to create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, and other artistic inventions — and learn important math, science, and engineering ideas in the process. For more information, see scratch.mit.edu and www.picocricket.com and llk.media.mit.edu
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New generation of math software from Maplesoft
Google engEDU
52 min – Sep 11, 2007

Google Tech Talks
September 11, 2007

ABSTRACT

The name Maple is synonymous with doing complex math on computers. Best known for its symbolic or algebraic computation abilities, Maple is one of the most important tools for the modern applied mathematician and scientist. Many of you are likely familiar with Maple from college but you’ve probably not kept up to date with latest developments. This presentation will present some of the latest product developments from Maplesoft. Topics include

- developments in high performance numerical computation
- recent advances in symbolic computing
- new Maple libraries including graph theory, statistics, optimization, polynomial operations, and more
- parallel and grid computing
- knowledge capture for mathematical documents
- the Maple programming language and application development
- overview of new add-on products including global optimization, and modeling and simulation

The presenter will be Mohamed Bendame, a senior engineer from Maplesoft. The presentations will include an open Q&A session.
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15 Views of a Node Link Graph: An Information Visualization Portfolio
Google engEDU
1 hr – Jun 28, 2006

Google TechTalks
June 28, 2006

Tamara Munzner received a BS in 1991 and a PhD in 2000 from Stanford. Her current research interests are information visualization, graph drawing, and dimensionality reduction. She was the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization Program/Papers Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004.

ABSTRACT
Information visualization, or infovis, is the interactive computer-based visual representation of abstract datasets. I will use collections of linked nodes as the launching point for a discussion of fifteen different approaches to infovis. Node-link graphs appear in many application domains, and people can perform many tasks faster or more effectively when they can manipulate a well-chosen visual representation of these graphs. A major challenge within infovis is how to handle the large datasets that occur in the real world. Designing algorithms with scalable speed and memory complexity is only part of the solution. The visual representation must also provide an appropriate abstraction, often requiring exploration across multiple levels of detail, to be comprehensible to the human in the loop. The talk will include examples in application domains ranging from web browsing to bioinformatics to computational linguistics, and datasets from thousands to millions of items.
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Advanced Topics in Programming Languages Series: Parametric Polymorphism
Google engEDU
31 min – Apr 18, 2007

Google Tech Talks
April 18, 2007

ABSTRACT

Advanced Topics in Programming Languages Series: Parametric Polymorphism and the Girard-Reynolds Isomorphism. This talk is based on a series of papers by Philip Wadler, a principal designer of the Haskell programming language. Featured are a number of double-barreled names in computer science:

* Hindley-Milner (Strong typing without having to type the types)
* Wadler-Blott (Making ad-hoc polymorphism less ad-hoc with parametricity)
* Curry-Howard (Isomorphism between types and theorems, terms and proofs)
* Girard-Reynolds (Isomorphism between types and terms in the presence of parametricity)

The talk will conclude with a programming technique (using the above) where the Haskell compiler (almost) writes your code for you!

Speaker: Phil Gossett
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High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA
Google engEDU
1 hr 2 min – Jan 25, 2006

Google TechTalks
January 25, 2006

Dr. Rupak Biswas and Dr. Chris Henze

Dr. Rupak Biswas is currently the Acting Chief of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA Ames Research Center. Dr. Biswas received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991 and has been at NASA ever since.

Chris Henze is the lead of the Visualization Group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, in which capacity he supervises research and development activities in data analysis and visualization. Dr. Henze received his Ph.D. in computational biology from the University of Arizona in 1993.
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Mac OS Automator: Doing things over and over is over.
Google engEDU
58 min – Jun 27, 2006

Google TechTalks
June 27, 2006

Sal Soghoian

ABSTRACT
Mac OS X "Tiger" introduces Automator, a new application that automates anything on your computer quickly and easily. Join Automator Product Manager Sal Soghoian as he demonstrates how you can use this incredible tool to make using your Mac productive and fun
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Computers versus Common Sense
Google engEDU
1 hr 15 min – May 30, 2006

Google TechTalks
May 30, 2006

Douglas Lenat
Dr. Douglas Lenat is the President and CEO of Cycorp. Since 1984, he and his team have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying
a broad real world knowledge base and reasoning engine, collectively "Cyc".

Dr. Lenat was a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University and at Stanford University. His interest and experience in national security has led him to regularly consult for several U.S. agencies and the White House.

ABSTRACT
It’s way past 2001 now, where the heck is HAL? For several decades now we’ve had high hopes for computers amplifying our mental abilities not just giving us access to relevant stored information, but answering our complex, contextual questions.

Even applications like human-level unrestricted speech understanding continue to dangle close but just out of reach. What’s been holding AI up? The short answer is that while computers make fine idiot savants, they lack common sense: the millions of pieces of general knowledge we all share, and fall back on as needed, to cope with the rough edges of the real world. I will talk about how that situation is changing, finally, and what the timetable — and the path — realistically are on achieving Artificial Intelligence.
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Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table
Google engEDU
59 min – Mar 28, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 28, 2007

ABSTRACT

I present a lock-free concurrent Hash Table implementation with better single-thread performance than most Hash Tables, and better multi-thread performance than all other implementations I tried. I demonstrate scaling up to 768 CPUs even with high mutation rates. I show correctness by looking at the problem in a very different light than the usual "happens-before" / memory-order / fencing style of thinking.

Speaker: Dr. Cliff Click

Dr. Cliff Click, Azul Systems. Chief JVM Architect, Distinguished Engineer With more than twenty-five years experience developing compilers Cliff serves as Azul Systems’ Chief JVM Architect. Cliff joined Azul in 2002 from Sun Microsystems where he was the architect and lead developer of the HotSpot Server Compiler, a technology that has delivered dramatic improvements in Java performance since its inception. Previously he was with Motorola where he helped deliver industry leading SpecInt2000 scores on PowerPC chips, and before that he researched compiler technology at HP Labs. Cliff has been writing optimizing compilers and JITs for over 15 years. He is invited to speak regularly at industry and academic conferences, and has published many papers about HotSpot technology. Cliff holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University.
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High Radix Interconnection Networks
Google engEDU
1 hr 5 min – Oct 5, 2006

Google Tech Talks
October 5, 2006

William J. Dally

Bill Dally is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering and the Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Bill and his group have developed system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing, and synchronization technology that can be found in most large parallel computers today.

ABSTRACT
High-radix interconnection networks offer significantly better cost/performance and lower latency than conventional (low-radix) topologies. Increasing radix is motivated by the exponential increase in router pin bandwidth over time. Increasing the radix or degree of a router node is a more efficient way to exploit this increasing bandwidth than making channels wider. A high-radix poses several challenges in router design because the internal structures of conventional routers (e.g., the allocators) scale quadratically with radix. A hierarchical switch organization with internal buffering yields a scalable design with near-optimal performance. A high-radix "flattened butterfly" topology, enabled by recent developments in global adaptive routing, offers twice the performance as a comparable-cost Clos network on balanced traffic. Many of these developments have been incorporated in the YARC router and interconnection network for the Cray Black Widow Supercomputer.
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Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce Used on Large Data Sets
Google engEDU
30 min – Jun 23, 2007

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability:
Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets
Speaker: Barry Brumitt, Google, Inc.

MapReduce is a programming model and library designed to
simplify distributed processing of huge datasets on large clusters of
computers. This is achieved by providing a general mechanism
which largely relieves the programmer from having to handle
challenging distributed computing problems such as data
distribution, process coordination, fault tolerance, and scaling. While
working on Google maps, I’ve used MapReduce extensively to
process and transform datasets which describe the earth’s
geography. In this talk, I’ll introduce MapReduce, demonstrating its
broad applicability through example problems ranging from basic
data transformation to complex graph processing, all the in the
context of geographic data.
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Model-Based Testing: Black or White?
Google engEDU
1 hr – Aug 27, 2007

Google Tech Talks
August 27, 2007

ABSTRACT

Model-based testing can help to reduce the cost of testing and increase its effectiveness. Instead of designing test cases by hand, model-based testing allows a test engineer to automatically generate test cases from a model of the system under test.

After a brief overview of model-based testing, this talk will compare two different kinds of test model: black-box models and white-box models. Black-box models are easier for programmers to write and tools to use, while white-box models require more sophisticated notations and modelling skills, but can allow more sophisticated test generation.

These two styles of models will be illustrated by using two different model-based testing tools to test some example applications, such as a web-based library system. An open-source tool, ModelJUnit, will be used to illustrate test generation from several black-box test models written in Java. A commercial tool, LEIRIOS Test Designer, will be used to illustrate test generation from white-box test models written in UML

Speaker: Mark Utting

Mark Utting has been developing and using model-based testing tools since 2000. Recently, he co-authored the first industry-oriented book specifically on model-based testing, and developed the open-source ModelJUnit tool to illustrate some of the techniques in the book. He has also been a consultant for the design of commercial model-based testing tools, such as the LEIRIOS Test Designer from LEIRIOS Technologies.

Dr Utting works as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Prior to this, he worked as an analyst/programmer in the Australian software industry for several years and as a postdoctoral researcher on theorem proving and real-time refinement. His PhD was in the area of refinement calculus techniques for object-oriented programs. He is a member of the IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology.

Home page: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~marku
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You Are What You Say: Privacy Risks of Public Mentions
Google engEDU
27 min – Aug 3, 2006

Google TechTalks
August 3, 2006

Dan Frankowski is both computer science researcher and practitioner in software and algorithms development. He got his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 1993, then spent a year in Budapest on a Fulbright grant studying mathematics. From 1997 to 2003 he was an algorithms guy at Net Perceptions. From 2003 to the present, he has been a research fellow with the GroupLens research group at the Unviersity of Minnesota, which is most well-known for recommenders, but now studies online community more broadly.

ABSTRACT
In today’s data-rich networked world, people express many aspects of their lives online. It is common to segregate different aspects in different places: you might write opinionated rants about movies in your blog under a pseudonym while participating in a forum or web site for scholarly discussion of medical ethics under your real name. However, it may be possible to link these separate identities, because the movies, journal articles, or authors you mention are from a sparse relation space whose properties (e.g., many items related to by only a few users) allow re- identification. This talk examines this general problem in a specific setting: re- identification of users from a public web movie forum in a private movie ratings dataset.
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The Science and Art of User Experience at Google
Google engEDU
27 min – Jun 7, 2006

Google TechTalks

June 7, 2006

Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google’s user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google’s many products. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science.

ABSTRACT

Focus on the user and all else will follow. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. Jen Fitzpatrick will take you through the art and science behind Google’s design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together in Google’s unique culture to create great products.
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Computer Science Unplugged
Google engEDU
50 min – Oct 18, 2006

Google Tech Talks
October 18, 2006

Tim Bell is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. His current research interests include Computers and Music, Public Understanding of (Computer) Science, and educational applications of podcasting.
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Thoughts on the World’s Largest Possible Computer & What It Runs On
Google engEDU
1 hr 2 min – Mar 27, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 27, 2007

ABSTRACT

The relation between Google and the free software movement is one of the most important diplomatic relationships in the 21st century. But it is largely invisible, even to the principals. In this talk I will try and make some of what we have taken for granted less implicit, so we can progress with mutual confidence and collective security.

Speaker: Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center

Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School, and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world’s leading free software developers.

Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia – since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.
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Sparse and large-scale learning with heterogeneous data
Google engEDU
55 min – Sep 5, 2006

Google Tech Talks
September 5, 2006

Gert Lanckriet is assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego. He conducts research on machine learning, applied statistics and convex optimization with applications in computational biology, finance, music and vision.

ABSTRACT
An important challenge for the field of machine learning is to deal with the increasing amount of data that is available for learning and to leverage the (also increasing) diversity of information sources, describing these data. Beyond classical vectorial data formats, data in the format of graphs, trees, strings and beyond have become widely available for data mining, e.g., the linked structure of the world wide web, text, images and sounds on web pages, protein interaction networks, phylogenetic trees, etc. Moreover, for interpretability and economical reasons, decision rules that rely on a small subset of the information sources and/or a small subset of the features describing the data are highly desired: sparse learning algorithms are a must. This talk will outline two recent approaches that address sparse, large-scale learning with heterogeneous data, and show some applications.
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BillMonk.com
Google engEDU
40 min – Jun 16, 2006

Google TechTalks
June 16, 2006

Gaurav Oberoi & Chuck Groom
Co-Founders, BillMonk.com

ABSTRACT
The web 2.0 bubble inflates as geeks pump out an astonishing number of web-based solutions to daily problems. But a lot of these solutions only appeal to a small niche. What goes into a service that appeals to a broad range of people?

How can it start and grow without a generous helping of capital? The two guys behind BillMonk.com, a service for helping friends with the casual borrowing of money and stuff, will share their views from the trenches. They will share the story of what it took to quit their comfy jobs at Amazon, how a handful of philosophical axioms dictated the entire site design and interface, anthropological observations about the 18-26 year-old demographic with respect to money and computers, and some of the technical challenges they’ve faced. There will be room for discussion about Ruby, Linux, when to open-source parts of your platform, and business lessons for geeks.
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Seattle Conference on Scalability: Scaling Google for Every User
Google engEDU
1 hr 1 min – Jun 23, 2007

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User
Experience, leads the product management efforts on Google’s
search products – web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the
Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She
joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the
user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have
included designing and developing Google’s search interface,
internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining
Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100
features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been
filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.

Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught
introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to over
3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the Centennial
Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding
contribution to undergraduate education.

Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab
(Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo
Park, California. Marissa has been featured in various publications,
including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring
("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream
Team"), BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Fast Company. Graduating
with honors, Marissa received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and
her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both
degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.
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Security is Broken
Google engEDU
1 hr 10 min – Oct 11, 2006

Google Tech Talks
October 11, 2006

Rik Farrow

ABSTRACT
Our computer security model is broken. Worse yet, it never really has worked at all well, and is even less suitable for today’s uses. In this talk, I explore the history behind the design of the current security both in hardware and operating systems. Instead of evolving a more secure model over time, system designers have actually managed to make things worse, creating insecurity in depth. Most of today’s systems are single user machines: certainly desktops and laptops, but also most servers. The current security model was not designed to protect users from themselves, and this goes a long way towards understanding why security is so difficult. I end by looking at strategies for improving security — but no real solutions. The point is to start thinking outside of the box, while adopting best practices today. What we have done in the past has not worked, and can not work. We need to look at the security model in a new way, and that is the real point of this presentation.
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Andy Hertzfeld at Google New York
Google engEDU
1 hr 14 min – May 3, 2006

Google New York’s Technical Speaker Series.
Andy Hertzfeld, one of the main designers of the original Apple Macintosh computer and now a Google software engineer, addresses over 200 people at Google’s New York office on March 15th

The video is 1:15 hrs in length
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2,3,5, Infinity!
Google engEDU
52 min – Aug 18, 2006

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August 18, 2006

Paul Hildebrandt founded Zometool Inc. with co-inventor Marc Pelletier in 1985. He organized the Zome team, raised capital and coordinated research and development of prototype tooling, production systems, packaging and collateral material, and continues as president and board chairman. He graduated magna cum laude in economics from the University of Colorado (1987); was Director of Research for Eco-Cycle, Inc., largest local recycling program in the U.S. (1982–1985); and founded Renaissance Community Press, a print shop for human service organizations (1976–1982). Several times he’s crossed the US by freight train for less than $20, and has ceased having out-of-body experiences since getting married in 1992 or ‘93.

ABSTRACT
Nearly 60 years after the first electronic digital computer was designed at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), companies like Google are demonstrating the power of a world built from 1s and 0s. Zome is a system that models the world built from the numbers 2, 3 and 5. We will explore how these numbers are knotted together to form the structure of space, from the subatomic framework of the atom, to the geometry of life, to a recently proposed “shape” of the universe!
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The Graphing Calculator Story
Google engEDU
54 min – Aug 1, 2006

Google TechTalks
August 1, 2006

Ron Avitzur

ABSTRACT
It’s midnight. I’ve been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I’m not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I’m evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer’s main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation.

For more info visit:
http://www.pacifict.com/Story
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