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Google TechTalks May 17, 2006
About William Jones: William Jones is an Research Associate Professor in The Information School at the University of Washington where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project (funded by the National Science Foundation , http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/ index.asp; see also http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/).
ABSTRACT: Many people are curators, consciously or not, of large and growing [...]

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Google TechTalks April 13, 2006
Mike Andrews
Mike Andrews is a senior consultant who specializes in software security and leads the web application security assessments and Ultimate Web Hacking classes for Foundstone.
ABSTRACT: It all started out as a place to share physics documents, but has grown into potentially mankind’s largest and most complex creation. The World [...]

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Google TechTalk June 21, 2006
Ellen Spertus is a Software Engineer at Google and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, where she directs the graduate program in Interdisciplinary Computer Science. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from MIT, and has done research in parallel computing, text classification, information retrieval, and online [...]

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Google TechTalks July 5, 2006
Alan Karp
Principle Scientist Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Dr. Karp has been leading the Virus Safe Computing Initiative at HP Labs since 2003. He served as Chief Scientist of HP’s E-speak Operation from June 1999 until April 2000, at which time he returned to HP Laboratories to work on automated negotiation. Before [...]

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Google TechTalks July 11, 2006
Tore Risch
ABSTRACT: GSDM is a data stream management system running on cluster computers. The system is extensible through user-defined data representations and computations. The computations are specified as stream queries continuously computed over windows of data sliding over the streams.
Our applications include a virtual radio telescope requiring advanced computations over huge [...]

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Google TechTalks February 28, 2006
Prof. Bob Brodersen
ABSTRACT: The ability of FPGA technology to exploit the advances in IC fabrication technology has resulted in the present situation in which a FPGA computing fabric is the most power and area efficient approach for general purpose parallel computing. This has occurred because the Von-Neumann processor architectures are now [...]

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A little birdie sent me a copy of Google - Behind the Screen, an Australian documentary about everyone’s favorite search engine that aired this month Down Under. My favorite parts are when the documentary makers dig in their heels about the privacy implications of Google storing its users’ search history for an indefinite amount of [...]

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