Wuala - a distributed file system
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Google Tech TalksOctober, 30 2007ABSTRACTAfter three years of research and development on a distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing, sharing, and publishing files on the internet. Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala is...
The Secret History of Silicon Valley
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Google Tech TalksDecember, 18 2007How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know TodayHow much does an average Googler know about the history of the placehe works in? Silicon Valley.Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -even seasoned Silicon Valleyveterans will...
Electricity from Orbit: The case for R & D
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Google Tech TalksDecember, 5 2007ABSTRACTCost-effective space solar power (SSP) -- the beaming abundant high-intensity solar power from space though atmospheric windows at laser or microwave frequencies for electric power at the surface -- could be a breakthrough technology for large-scale power...
Dryad: A general-purpose distributed execution platform
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Google Tech TalksNovember, 1 2007ABSTRACTWeb search has generated the need and economic support for a new class of data-intensive supercomputing applications. Several computing platforms have been created to support this need: the first described in the literature is Google's MapReduce. I will...
"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin
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Google Tech TalksJanuary, 16 2008ABSTRACTDo telepathy, clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do, and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently...
A New Marriage of Brain and Computer
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Google Tech TalksSeptember, 21 2007ABSTRACTBrain and computer were wed mid-twentieth century by the McCulloch-Pitts model neuron and Hodgkin-Huxley equations for digital firing in biological neurons. Since then, brain neurons, synapses, firings and networks have been considered analogous to...
Getting C++ Threads Right
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Google Tech TalksDecember, 12 2007ABSTRACTThe advent of multicore processors has generated profound debate on the merits of writing parallel programs with threads and locks. Nonetheless, for many application domains, this remains the standard paradigm for writing parallel programs, and at the...
Spatial Query Processing Utilizing Voronoi Diagrams
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Google TechTalksAugust 10, 2006Mehdi Sharifzadeh is a PhD student doing research at USC this summer for Google. He will be giving a talk on his research as well as his PhD.ABSTRACTEfficient spatial query processing in spatial databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and even on-line map...
The Myths of Innovation
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Google Tech TalksMay 14, 2007ABSTRACTMuch of what we know about innovation is wrong. That's the bet this talk takes, as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we've constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on the upcoming O'Reilly book (May...
Poker Teaches
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Google Tech TalksNovember, 29 2007Want to learn about how Texas Hold'Em can be more than just a game? Come hear Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson and Harvard Law student Andrew Woods talk about the ways that poker can be used as a powerful tool for teaching core negotiation and business...
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