Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great sto
Here is Ira Glass of "This American Life" talking about the building blocks of a great story.
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Watch Jeffrey Scudder demonstrate his GData Python Client Library extension that makes it
Watch Jeffrey Scudder demonstrate his GData Python Client Library extension that makes it easy to use Google Spreadsheets as a database in the cloud.
http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets
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Lecture 1 in a five part series introducing mapreduce and cluster computing. See http://co
Lecture 1 in a five part series introducing mapreduce and cluster computing. See http://code.google.com/edu/content/submissions/mapreduce-min ilecture/listing.html for slides and other resources.
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Google Tech Talks
May 30, 2007
ABSTRACT
Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligen
Google Tech Talks
May 30, 2007
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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...
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Google Tech Talks
November, 29 2007
Want to learn about how Texas Hold'Em can be more tha
Google Tech Talks
November, 29 2007
Want 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 skills. Professor Nesson is the founder of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS), an organization focused on developing an academic curriculum using poker as a teaching tool. Professor Nesson and Mr. Woods believe that poker can be used to teach important life skills such as game theory, strategic thinking, risk assessment, and money management in an engaging and interactive way.
Speaker: Prof. Charles Nesson
Charles Nesson was born in 1939. He is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (a research center which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace) and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society. He is author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the Supreme Court, including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case. He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W.R. Grace that was made into the film A Civil Action.
Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, and then Harvard Law School where he joined the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude. Nesson was a law clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the US Supreme Court, 1965 term. He then worked as a special assistant in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. His first case, White v. Crook, made race and gender-based jury selection in Alabama unconstitutional. Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.
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Google Tech Talks
July 23, 2007
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Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and
Google Tech Talks
July 23, 2007
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Merlin Mann, a well known productivity guru and creator of the popular 43 folders website will talk about Getting Things Done, the importance of getting your inbox to zero, and strategies for dealing with high volume email. Credits: Speaker:Merlin Mann
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Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of rac
Barack Obama speaks in Philadelphia, PA at Constitution Center, on matters not just of race and recent remarks but of the fundamental path by which America can work together to pursue a better future.
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Google Tech Talks
November, 12 2007
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Please welcome Håkon Lie and Michael Day, w
Google Tech Talks
November, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
Please welcome Håkon Lie and Michael Day, who will be presenting Prince XML.
Prince Overview: Prince is a computer program that converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince can read many XML formats, including XHTML and SVG. Prince formats documents according to style sheets written in CSS.
Dynamic data-driven documents: Prince is an ideal printing component for server-based software such as web applications and database systems. Using Prince, data in XML can easily be converted to PDF documents that can be printed, archived or downloaded over the web.
Electronic publishing: Prince can also be used by authors and publishers to typeset and print documents written in HTML, XHTML or one of the many XML-based document formats. Prince is capable of formatting academic papers, scientific journals, novels, and books with extensive illustrations.
Speaker: Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie, YesLogic Director: Håkon is a web pioneer, having proposed CSS while working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon became a devotee when he found that Prince could format his book on CSS (co-authored with Bert Bos) and his PhD thesis. Håkon is a graduate of MIT's Media Lab and is also the CTO of Opera Software.
Speaker: Michael Day
Michael Day, YesLogic CEO: Michael is the system architect for Prince. He has implemented the CSS processing module, which supports many pioneering CSS features including CSS3 Selectors and Paged Media properties. In 2003, he joined the W3C CSS working group as an invited expert.
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http://www.merl.com/people/raskar/LumiNetra/
In this video, we present a high speed opt
http://www.merl.com/people/raskar/LumiNetra/
In this video, we present a high speed optical motion capture method which can measure three dimensional motion, orientation, and incident illumination at tagged points in a scene. We use tracking tags that can be imperceptibly embedded in attire or other objects and can work in natural lighting conditions. Our system can support an unlimited number of tags in a scene, and each tag has a unique id thus eliminating marker reacquisition issues. Our tags also provide incident illumination data which can be used when inserting synthetic elements in order to match the lighting of the scene at the time of capturing. This makes the technique ideal for on-set motion capture or the real-time broadcasting of virtual sets.
Unlike previous methods that employ high speed cameras or scanning lasers, we capture the scene appearance using the simplest possible optical devices -- a light-emitting diode (LED) with a passive binary mask used as the transmitter and a photosensor used as the receiver. We strategically place a set of optical transmitters to spatio-temporally encode the volume of interest. Photosensors attached to scene points demultiplex the coded optical signals from multiple transmitters, allowing us to compute not only their location and orientation but also their incident illumination and the reflectance of the surfaces to which they are attached. We use our untethered tag system to demonstrate methods of adding special effects to captured videos that cannot be accomplished using pure vision techniques that rely on camera images.
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