Thinking Beyond Borders
Google engEDU
33 min – Sep 27, 2007

Google Tech Talks
September 27, 2007

ABSTRACT

Our global society faces great challenges such as Global Warming, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, wide-spread hunger, and poverty. To effectively address these issues in years to come, we must re-envision how we prepare our next great leaders to be conscious agents of change. Thinking Beyond Borders is a 35-week program to educate Gap Year students about the economic, political, and cultural realities of our world while empowering them with the tools to create proactive social change. Through varied service learning opportunities, the itinerary immerses students in cultures and communities around the world to provide experiences with various issues of International Development. The curriculum challenges students to synthesize academic research and their collected observations into powerful conclusions about the nature of globalization, world hunger, human rights, cultural change, and political systems. The most unique aspect of this program is that students return to the US to meet with international policy makers and share their conclusions with student and philanthropy groups to raise awareness and funds for the NGOs they worked with abroad. In these ways, Thinking Beyond Borders seeks to create a community of conscious agents of proactive change, equipped to tackle our world’s greatest challenges.
video

Click here to view the embedded video.

• Download: “Thinking Beyond Borders” (video/mp4)

Related posts

• 15 Views Of A Node Link Graph: An Information Visualization Portfolio (0)
• 235 Infinity (0)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 20 (0)
• 7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution (0)
• A Googly Mysql Cluster Talk (0)

Linux Telephony: Not so short Overview
Google engEDU
1 hr – Jul 25, 2007

Google Tech Talks
July 19, 2007

ABSTRACT

I will talk about voice services in packet-switched (VoIP) and circuit-switched (traditional telephony) networks, using Linux and commodity hardware. This will include short introduction into telephony in general, VoIP and PSTN type of telephony, plus overview of VoIP services (and popular opensource software packages used to implement those services) and kernel interfaces that used in that packages. I will cover the topic of connection to the Public Switched Telephony Network using digital interfaces (E1/T1), kernel support for it in framework called "zaptel", and userspace integration issues. The conclusion is about current trends in Linux-based and open-source telephony.

This is a second run of my presentation which I gave on the Ottawa Linux Symposium’2007.
video

Click here to view the embedded video.

• Download: “Linux Telephony: Not So Short Overview” (video/mp4)

Related posts

• 15 Views Of A Node Link Graph: An Information Visualization Portfolio (0)
• 235 Infinity (0)
• 7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 20 (0)
• 7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution (0)
• A Googly Mysql Cluster Talk (0)