| Wuala - a distributed file system |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 30 2007
ABSTRACT
After 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 decentralized and
can harness idle resources of participating
computers to build a large, secure, and
reliable online storage. This enables its
users to trade parts of their local storage
for online storage and it allows us to
provide a better service for free. In the
talk, I will explain what Wuala is and how it
works, and I will also show a demo. All
attendees will also get an invitation code to
join the early alpha version.
Speaker: Dominik Grolimund
I am 26 years old and have studied computer
science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, I founded my
software company Caleido, and developed the
Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact
management software, of which over 35'000
licenses have been sold so far in
Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
In 2003, I did an exchange semester at the TU
Delft, the Netherlands, as part of the
Unitech exchange program, focusing on
business and management. In 2004, a six-month
internship followed with Siemens Corporate
Research in Princeton, New Jersey in the US,
where I worked in the 'Intelligent Vision &
Reasoning' department, developing a prod...
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| Git |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
When you have hundreds of people
simultaneously patching 25000 files of the
Linux Kernel in sometimes conflicting ways,
you might need some scheme or plan to sort
all that out before you can build your next
kernel and reboot. The Linux team uses
"git" for their source code
repository management, a homegrown solution
that is optimized for highly distributed
development, working with huge sets of files,
merging independent work at multiple levels,
and seeing who broke what. (Git has also
since been notably adopted by the Cairo,
x.org, and Wine teams, and is being
transitioned to by the Mozilla codebase.)
In my talk, I describe what "git"; is and
isn't, and why you should use it instead of
CVS, Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs, Mercurial,
Monotone, Bazaar, and just about every other
repository manager. I'll also walk though the
basic concepts so that the manpages might
start making sense. If I have time, I'll even
do a live walkthrough, where you can watch
how fast I make typos.
Speaker: Randal Schwartz
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| The Web That Wasn't |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the
Web is all we have ever really known. It's
almost impossible to imagine a world without
browsers, URLs and HTTP. But in the years
leading up to Tim Berners-Lee's
world-changing invention, a few visionary
information scientists were exploring
alternative systems that often bore little
resemblance to the Web as we know it today.
In this presentation, author and information
architect Alex Wright will explore the
heritage of these almost-forgotten systems in
search of promising ideas left by the
historical wayside.
The presentation will focus on the pioneering
work of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug
Engelbart, forebears of the 1960s and 1970s
like Ted Nelson, Andries van Dam, and the
Xerox PARC team, and more recent forays like
Brown's Intermedia system. We'll trace the
heritage of these systems and the solutions
they suggest to present day Web quandaries,
in hopes of finding clues to the future in
the recent technological past.
Speaker: Alex Wright
Alex Wright is an information architect at
the New York Times and the author of Glut:
Mastering Information Through the Ages.
Previously, Alex has led projects for The
Long Now Foundation, California Digital
Library, Harvard University, IBM, Microsoft,
Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among others. He
maintains a personal Web site at
http://www.alexwright.org/
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| Ruby 1.9 |
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Google Tech Talks
February, 20 2008
ABSTRACT
Ruby 1.9
Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro,
a.k.a. Matz, born 14 April 1965) is a
Japanese computer scientist and software
programmer best known as the chief designer
of the Ruby programming language.
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western
Honshu. According to an interview conducted
by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught
programmer until the end of high school. He
graduated with an information science degree
from Tsukuba University, where he associated
himself with research departments dealing
with programming languages and compilers.
As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the
research and development department at the
Network Applied Communication Laboratory, an
open source systems integrator company in
Shimane prefecture. He is a member of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
and served as a missionary for the church.
Matsumoto is married and has four children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumo
to
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| Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action |
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Google Tech Talks
August 30, 2007
ABSTRACT
Quicksilver hides almost unbounded power
beneath the interface of a keyboard-driven
launcher. Using a basic grammatical model, it
allows you to move beyond basic search and
work effortlessly with applications, data,
and the web. Quickilver is above all a
prototype intended to explore new forms of
interaction.
In this talk, we will explore the motivation
behind Quicksilver, highlights of its
implementation, lessons learned from its
design, and the ways it might inform the
future of navigation for the desktop and the
web.
Speaker: Nicholas Jitkoff Credits:
Speaker:Nicholas Jitkoff
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| jQuery |
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Google Tech Talks
April, 3 2008
ABSTRACT
jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands
out among its competitors
because it is faster, focuses on writing less
code, and is very
extensible. In this talk, I will explore
jQuery and how to use it. I
will start off talking about the basics of
using jQuery. Then, I will
talk about building plugins. Finally, time
permitting, I will take
apart some plugins and talk about how they
work, and I will show the
nitty gritty details of the library.
Speaker: Dmitri Gaskin
Dmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for
breakfast every
morning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal
know-it-all. He
contributes patches for both Open Source
projects. In the Drupal
world, he maintains many modules, is on the
security team, and is
involved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a
mentor and
administrator. Dmitri has given many talks on
Drupal and jQuery, in
such places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live
on a radio show out of
L.A. When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare
occurrence, he is playing
and composing contemporary music. And
attending classes in the 6th
grade. (He's only 12.)
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| Gerd Leonhard Tech Talk at Google London |
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Gerd Leonhard is a Music & Media Futurist,
Author, Speaker, Advisor, and Digital Media
Entrepreneur. The Wall Street Journal calls
Gerd one of the leading media futurists in
the world. He is the Co-Author of the
influential book "The Future of Music" (2005,
Berklee Press), as well as the author of
"Music2.0" (released 2/2008
www.music20book.com), and of "Open is King -
The Future of Media beyond Control" (late
2008).
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| Prince XML: Generating High Quality PDFs from HTML + CSS |
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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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