Some Python Integrated Development Environments
Google engEDU
1 hr 17 min - Jul 13, 2006

Google TechTalks
July 13, 2006

Bay Area Python Interest Group
http://baypiggies.net/

Topic: Emacs
Presenter: Marylin Davis

Marilyn Davis is the Python Instructor at UCSC-Extension. She is the lead developer at Maildance.com and Deliberate.com.

Topic: Vim
Presenter: Keith Dart

Keith Dart works in QA automation and is the primary developer of the PyNMS network application framework.

Topic: Xcode
Presenter: Mark Ivey

Mark Ivey is a senior engineer at R2 Technology. Although his job doesn’t involve a lot of Python, it is his preferred evenings and weekends language.

Topic: Wing IDE
Presenter: Mike Cheponis

Mike Cheponis is President of California Wireless, Inc., a Silicon Valley consulting firm that specializes in Wireless Communications Systems, designing RF, Analog, Digital, and software subsystems and products. He writes code in assembly languages, Lisp, and Python. Read the rest of this entry »

The Implications of OpenID
Google engEDU
51 min - Jun 25, 2007

Google Tech Talks
June 25, 2007

ABSTRACT

Simon Willison
OpenID is an emerging standard that provides simple, decentralised authentication for the Web. OpenID follows the Unix philosophy, solving one small problem rather than attempting to tackle the many larger challenges posed by online identity. This talk will explore the implications of OpenID, and explore the best practices required to take advantage of this new technology while avoiding the potential pitfalls.

Speaker: Simon Willison
Simon Willison is a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo!’s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas. Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net/ Read the rest of this entry »

Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors
Google engEDU
45 min - Aug 13, 2007

Google Tech Talks
August 13, 2007

ABSTRACT

Frank Cohen, the leading authority on XML, Platforms, Applications and Database (XPAD) optimization will give a TechTalk at Google on the issues confronting software developers, QA technicians, and IT managers to rapidly surface and solve functional and performance problems in service environments.

Frank will demonstrate the new PushToTest TestMaker Version 5 open- source end-to-end service governance and test automation tool. Software developers use PushToTest to turn their unit tests into functional tests in a test automation platform that runs on their development machine. Frank will demonstrate PushToTest’s Wizards and Recorders to automatically build tests and supports a variety of languages, including Java, .NET, Jython, Groovy, PHP, Ruby, and many others. Plus Frank will show how PushToTest Version 5 supports SOA, Web Service, AJAX, and REST services using HTTP, HTTPS, SOAP, XML- RPC, and the email protocols.

Frank will show how the platform requires no programming to turns these same functional tests into load tests and service monitors for QA technicians, IT operations managers, and CIOs. PushToTest test run- time load tests and service monitors integrate into Service Registry/ Repository products and database performance optimization and root- cause analysis tools. Read the rest of this entry »

Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time
Google engEDU
52 min - May 30, 2007

Google Tech Talks
May 30, 2007

ABSTRACT

Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time Essay: www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0701.html Abstract: When the AI field was founded over 50 years ago, it was squarely focused on the grand dream of creating software displaying general intelligence at the human level or beyond. Since that time the field has drifted in a direction Ray Kurzweil has called "Narrow AI": the creation of intelligent software applications carrying out highly particular functions. The relationship between this sort of narrow AI and "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) as in the original dreams of the AI field, is an issue of dispute among experts. Some researchers believe powerful AGI will result eventually from the development and combination of narrow AI products — such as, for example, data mining software as is commonly used in the finance industry; auto navigation software like the kind used in the DARPA Grand Challenge; and last but not least, sophisticated search engines like Google. Other researchers believe that AGI will only come about via emulation of the human brain, once brain mapping technology has advanced further. On the other hand, an increasing minority of researchers believes that AGI is most likely to be achieved via computer science researchers explicitly attempting to create AGI software programs, divorced from any particular narrow application area. In this talk I will briefly overview this emerging subdiscipline of "AGI", including the work of various researchers such as Stan Franklin, Pei Wang and Stuart Shapiro. I will then discuss my own work on the Novamente Cognition Engine, an AGI project based on combining a number of knowledge representations and reasoning and learning techniques into an integrative architecture motivated by complex systems theory, and initially oriented at the control of virtual agents in 3D simulation worlds such as Second Life. Read the rest of this entry »

Turning Email Upside Down: RSS/Email and IM2000
Google engEDU
44 min - Jul 19, 2006

Google TechTalks
July 19, 2006

Meng Weng Wong & Julian Haight

Meng Weng Wong is an email geek. He started pobox.com in 1995 and karmasphere.com in 2005. He is responsible for SPF, the email authentication standard which was embraced and extended by Microsoft to form Sender ID. He recently moved from Philadelphia to Silicon Valley to work on Karmasphere, the open reputation network for the Internet.

Julian Haight founded SpamCop.net, the impossible spam-reporting service. He is currently working on a book dealing with network security. Before SpamCop, he worked as a private consultant developing small interactive web-sites. He has always been concerned with privacy and security.

ABSTRACT
A decade ago, DJB proposed IM2000: what if mail storage were the sender’s responsibility? Since then, spam *= bignum, blogs were invented, and RSS is now sex on a stick. Let’s say an RSS blog is just like a one-to-many public mailing list, but over HTTP pull. Now imagine what one-to-one private asynchronous messaging might look like, over HTTP pull. A few months ago Meng Weng Wong (spf.pobox.com), Julian Haight (spamcop.net), and others got together to build an opensource prototype of the system. Meng will discuss the philosophy, architecture, and implementation of the prototype. Read the rest of this entry »