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 »

"EFF Confidential!"
Google engEDU
57 min – Feb 9, 2006

Google TechTalks
February 9, 2006

Danny O’Brien and Jason Schultz

Danny O’Brien
Danny O’Brien is the Activism Coordinator for the EFF. His job is to help EFF’s membership in making their voice heard: in government and regulatory circles, in the marketplace, and with the wider public.

Jason Schultz
Jason Schultz is a Staff Attorney specializing in intellectual property and reverse engineering. He currently leads EFF’s Patent Busting Project. Prior to joining EFF, Schultz worked at the law firm of Fish & Richardson P.C., where he spent most of his time invalidating software patents and defending open source developers in law suits. Jason maintains a personal blog at lawgeek.net.

ABSTRACT
Everything you wanted to know about the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but were under a federal court order not to discuss. Activism co-ordinator Danny O’Brien and attorney Jason Schultz explain the mechanics behind how the digital rights group works, give status updates on recent cases (including the Sony BMG debacle, the suit against AT&T for collaborating with wiretaps, and the EFF’s patent-busting project), and give insider revelations about the EFF’s work against the broadcast flag and for fair use. Plenty of time for questions – no warrants necessary. Read the rest of this entry »

The Scala Experiment: Better Language Support for Component Systems?
Google engEDU
1 hr 3 min – Nov 7, 2006

Google Tech Talks
November 7, 2006

ABSTRACT
The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems?
Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. In this talk, I give an introduction to Scala and demonstrate how it helps solving some hard problems in the construction of component systems.

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on programming languages, more specifically languages for object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented with a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work centers around the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET. Read the rest of this entry »

7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0
Google engEDU
1 hr 20 min – Feb 13, 2007

Google Tech Talks
February 13, 2007

ABSTRACT

A large percentage of time behind the computer screen is spent on editing text. Investing a little time in learning more efficient ways to use a text editor pays itself back fairly quickly. This presentation will give an overview of the large number of ways of using Vim in a smart way to edit programs, structured text and documentation. Examples will be used to make clear how learning a limited number of habits will avoid wasting time and lower the number of mistakes.
Bram Moolenaar is mostly known for being the benevolent dictator of the text editor Vim. His roots are in electrical engineering and for a long time he worked on inventing image processing algorithms and software for big photo copying machines. At some point his work on Open-Source software became more important, making the development of Vim his full time job. He also did the A-A-P project in between Vim version 6.0 and 7.0. Now he works for Google in Zurich, still improving Vim on the side. His home page is http://www.moolenaar.net. Read the rest of this entry »

Some Python Integrated Development Environments
Google engEDU
1 hr 17 min – 13-Jul-06

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 »