Posted on 29-02-2008
Filed Under (documentation) by Linux Poweruser Programmer

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/
://www.heywhatsthat.com/faq.

Speaker: Michael Kosowsky

Michael Kosowsky has more than 25 years of experience in , 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 service; founder and CTO of Momentum, Inc., where he led the and patenting of a portable client- communications technology; and engineer for The Jackson Laboratory and DNA Sciences, where he implemented systems for visualizing and sharing genomic data. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted on 26-02-2008
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Flex, and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications
Google EngEDU
56 min - May 2, 2007

Google Tech Talks
May 2, 2007

ABSTRACT

James Ward, engineer and evangelist for Adobe’s Flex, and Apollo technologies, will demonstrate their use for very rich user experiences in internet applications. Topics covered will include ECMAscript, the recent open source donation of the scripting engine to the Tamarin project, Apollo (the standalone execution environment for running desktop applications written in and ) and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted on 21-02-2008
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Creating Tools for
Google engEDU
1 hr - May 3, 2006

Google TechTalks
May 3, 2006

Javier Pedemonte, IBM
Adam Peller, IBM

ABSTRACT
Tools for building / and so-called -style applications are sparse. Mozilla has traditionally had the best tools in Venkman and its DOM Inspector, but recently development has been stagnant and these tools do not offer integration with active code .

Newer tools like Firebug offer more clever tools to inspect pages but still have no role in the rest of the cycle.

The Eclipse Toolkit Framework brings these types of tools into the Eclipse IDE — making use of the Java XPCOM to bridge and leveraging the robust features of Eclipse, while leaving the environment pluggable for more enhancements. The current work will be demonstrated and the architecture will be discussed, with particular attention to the debugger and embedding of xulrunner. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted on 20-02-2008
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Web Applications and the Ubiquitous
Google engEDU
1 hr - Feb 1, 2006

Google TechTalks
February 1, 2006

Dave Raggett

Dave Raggett is currently a W3C Fellow from Canon, and W3C Activity Lead for Multimodal Interaction. Dave has been closely involved with driving standards for the since 1992, e.g. setting up the IETF working group, helping with work on ECMAScript, and W3 work on , XForms, MathML, VoiceXML and other related specifications. For further details see: ://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

ABSTRACT
The Web is increasingly a ubiquitous platform for application developers. The talk will outline an emerging vision for the Ubiquitous Web and areas where further work is needed. I will also present work I have been doing on a Web-based alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and its extension to support remote meetings. Finally, I will demonstrate the use of to add speech capabilities to browsers and the role of remote speech engines. Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted on 18-02-2008
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Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting the un-invertible
Google engEDU
54 min - Jan 27, 2006

Google TechTalks
January 27, 2006

William Softky
://www.softky.com/Bill/resume.

The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what does each module actually do? What is the "API" between modules such that they can all learn and work in harmony? Read the rest of this entry »

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