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Languages Matter
Languages Matter
Google Tech Talk November 17, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Yukihiro Matsumoto. A short talk by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto about programming languages. Matz is the chief designer of the Ruby programming language and its reference implementation, Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI). ... [...]
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The Truth About Your Food
The Truth About Your Food
Google Tech Talk November 19, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Adiel Tel-Oren. Dr. T will address many issues concerning nutrition and functional medicine. Based on hard science, he will give us more clarity on the truth about our [...]
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How and When Prototyping Practices Affect Design Performance
How and When Prototyping Practices Affect Design Performance
Google Tech Talk November 19, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Steven Dow. How does the structure of prototyping practice affect learning, motivation, and performance? In this talk, I will describe research on iteration and comparison, [...]
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Learning from Code History
Learning from Code History
University, Saarbrücken, Germany. His research is concerned with the analysis of large software systems, in particular their execution ("Why does my program fail?") and their development history ("Where do most bugs occur?"). In 2006, his book "Why Programs [...]
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The MIT Energy Initiative: Sustainable Energy and Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics
The MIT Energy Initiative: Sustainable Energy and Terawatt-Scale Photovoltaics
Google Tech Talk November 5, 2009 ABSTRACT This MITEI on the Road event will open with a brief overview of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) by Daniel Enderton, Executive Director of MITEIs Sustainable [...]
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Google Personal Growth Series: Mindsight: The New Science of
Google Personal Growth Series: Mindsight: The New Science of
Google Tech Talks April 22, 2009 ABSTRACT This interactive talk will examine two major questions: What is the mind? and How can we create a healthy mind? We'll examine the interactions among the [...]
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Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger...
Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger...
Google Tech Talks June 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Explore the brain's amazing ability to change throughout a person's life. This phenomenon—called neuroplasticty—is the science behind brain fitness, and it has been [...]
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CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
CGAL: The Open Source Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
Google Tech Talks March, 3 2008 ABSTRACT Introduction Project mission statement, history, internal organization, partners, CGAL in numbers. What's in CGAL A survey on available data structures and algorithms, as well as examples how [...]
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No Time to Think
No Time to Think
Google Tech Talks March, 5 2008 ABSTRACT Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been [...]
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The Next Generation of Neural Networks
The Next Generation of Neural Networks
Google Tech Talks November, 29 2007 In the 1980's, new learning algorithms for neural networks promised to solve difficult classification tasks, like speech or object recognition, by learning many layers of non-linear features. The results were [...]
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