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Envisioning a Sustainable Future

June 23, 10 //

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Google Tech Talk June 11, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Madeleine Lansky. How do we deal with environmental degradation, climate change and global warming? Any system that is not sustainable will ultimately fail. This truth feels unbearable, and we often block it from our consciousness. We are overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, sadness and anger. We are paralyzed about how to go about improving our environment. Many of our mental health symptoms are linked to our core fears about survival and destruction. We might experience them as emptiness, feeling separate from life, or that life is not worth living. It can feel challenging enough just to survive, let alone to do something about the environment. We have lost our direct connection with our natural surroundings. In nature, the earth's finite resources are continuously recycled into different forms: molecules, minerals, water, air, soil, plants, and animals. "Sustainability" is inherent to the natural world. From the individual level to global, our main job right now is to rework all of our systems so that they recycle, rather than waste, finite resources. By embracing sustainability both personally and environmentally, we can feel emotionally stronger, happier and healthier. Sustainability allows us to reconnect with our natural surroundings while holding on to humanity's many achievements in the past 150 years. Our task is to use the genius of the industrial revolution to create the next step in our evolution: The <b>…</b>

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Mission to “Mars”

April 16, 10 //

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Mission to "Mars"

Google Tech Talk April 5, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by David D. Levine. In January 2010 I spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. Although the Martian conditions were simulated, the science was real, as were the isolation, hostile environment, and problems faced by the six-person crew. Although my official title was Crew Journalist, I soon found myself repairing space suits, helping to keep the habitat running, and having interplanetary adventures I'd never before imagined. My talk on the experience is profusely illustrated with photographs and has gotten rave reviews. Please see bentopress.com for more information. My name is David D. Levine and I'm a science fiction writer. I've sold over 40 short stories to all the major markets, including Asimov's and Analog, and I've won a Hugo Award, been nominated for the Nebula, and won or been shortlisted for many other awards as well as appearing in numerous Year's Best anthologies. I retired in 2007 after a 25-year career as a technical writer, software engineer, and user interface designer for Tektronix, Intel, and McAfee and now spend my days writing, traveling, and getting into trouble. For more on me, see www.bentopress.com

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AFTR the Fire: Carrier Networks and Incremental Deployment of IPv6

February 16, 10 //

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AFTR the Fire: Carrier Networks and Incremental Deployment of IPv6

Google Tech Talk January 21, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Paul Selkirk, Senior Software Engineer, Internet Systems Consortium. With the impending end of the unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses, the Internet faces a problem: there will be no more unused IPv4 space to assign as networks grow, only IPv6. Growth of the network in the future depends on effective deployment of IPv6. But migration of the existing Internet– end user systems, content sources, enterprise networks, carrier infrastructure– to IPv6 is only happening slowly and irregularly. The technology originally intended to support incremental deployment of IPv6, "dual-stack," in which individual end systems are capable of using both IPv4 and IPv6, is not turning out to be practical on the universal scale it was designed for. Several technologies are under development and early deployment to bridge the gap between the IPv4 internet and one that can interoperate between IPv4 and IPv6 in the interim– perhaps lengthy– before IPv6 is "mainstream" globally. This talk will briefly lay out the operational constraints around IPv4/IPv6 co-existence, and then describe ISC's implementation of one particular protocol, DS-lite ("Dual-stack lite"). A new product, AFTR (for "Address Family Transition Router"), implements the DS-lite protocol and provides the core of a deployable architecture for IPv4/IPv6 co-existence in carrier networks.

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Boardgame Design

January 13, 10 //

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Boardgame Design

Google Tech Talk December 1, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Peter Struijf. Peter Struijf is the designer and publisher of the innovative 4-player boardgame Krakow 1325 AD (2008). The game has two highly novel elements. Firstly, the "game engine" is a trick-taking card game (using special cards). Secondly, each player is a member of a two-player team, but has a secret Identity and plays to become the sole winner through a second scoring mechanism. The game has sold over 1200 copies to date and was awarded for the main Boardgame Award in the Netherlands. Peter will give a 30-minute presentation about his three-year long creative journey, covering the inspiration for and origins of the game, its test and development process, and how the artwork and "story" of the boardgame were merged into one single product. There will be space for questions and discussion afterwards.

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Pizza, Software, and the Rubik’s Cube

January 5, 10 //

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Pizza, Software, and the Rubik's Cube

Google Tech Talk August 26, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Jeff Varasano. "Relating the Mastery of Building Software to the Mastery of Making Pizza" Buckhead resident, world-renowned pizza authority, and former software engineer, Jeff Varasano opened his first pizzeria in Atlanta in March 2009. Over the past few years, Varasanos website, www.varasanos.com, has attracted international attention and a cult following as the most accurate and extensive source of information about gourmet pizza on the web. There are currently over 2000 links to Varasano's recipe – not bad for a guy who started out making English muffin pizzas in his toaster oven!

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Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

December 10, 09 //

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Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life

Google Tech Talk December 9, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Dacher Keltner. Prof. Keltner will be presenting work related to his recent book "Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life": "In this talk I will survey the latest evolutionary and neuroscience that aligns with Charles Darwin's thesis that sympathy is our strongest instinct, or that we are born to be good. I will take the audience on a tour of recent evolutionary thought, which suggests that our hyper vulnerable offspring rearranged our brains, genes, and social structures. I will detail new research on the vagus nerve and oxytocin, branches of the nervous system that have evolved to enable cooperation, trust, and caretaking. I detail new signaling systems — tactile communication and vocalization — which are critical to the transmission of prosociality across individuals. Throughout the talk I integrate the latest science with the wisdom found in Eastern thought." Dr. Dacher Keltner is a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley, and Director for Greater Good Science Center.

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Your Brain at Work

December 3, 09 //

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Your Brain at Work

Google Tech Talk November 12, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by David Rock. In his new book "Your Brain at Work," coach David Rock depicts the story of two people over one day at the office, and what's happening in their brains that makes it so hard to focus and be productive. Not only does he explain why things go wrong, but how you can train your brain to improve thinking and performance at work. Based on interviews with 30 neuroscientists, he's developed strategies to help you work smart all day. Learn how to: · Maximize your mental energy by understanding your brain's limits · Overcome distractions · Improve your focus through understanding the nature of attention · Reduce stress levels with brain-based techniques · Improve how you collaborate by understanding the social needs of the brain You can learn to be more productive, less stressed and stay sane by understanding your brain. David Rock is a thought leader for the brain-based approach to coaching. David coined the term 'neuroleadership' and co-founded the neuroleadership Institute, Journal and Summit. He is also the founder and CEO of Results Coaching Systems, which helps Fortune 500 clients worldwide improve thinking and performance. He has authored four books, most recently 'Your Brain at Work'. He is on the advisory board and faculty of international business school CIMBA, and a guest lecturer at Oxford University. He consults organizations including Ericsson, Publicis, NASA, Accenture, EDS and the US Federal Reserve. He lives between New York City and Sydney, Australia.

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Search User Interfaces

November 24, 09 //

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Search User Interfaces

Google Tech Talk November 23, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Professor Marti Hearst, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. Marti will talk about her recently published book, "Search User Interfaces," which presents the state of the art of search interface design, based on both academic research and deployment in commercial systems.

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Languages Matter

November 21, 09 //

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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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Learning from Code History

November 17, 09 //

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Learning from Code History

Google Tech Talk November 11, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Andreas Zeller. Why does my program fail? Your version history might have the answer. First, the failure may occur only in the most recent version. If there is some old version which worked, one can narrow down the change that caused the failure. By leveraging automated tests, one can even isolate such changes automatically: "The failure was caused by a change to line 365 in submit.py". Second, your version history also records all the fixes that were made. If we have many fixes in one unit, this means that this unit is particularly error-prone – and hence should deserve particular attention: "This compiler code is seven times as error-prone as the GUI code." In this talk, I show how to automate these techniques to learn what is wrong and how to predict bugs in large-scale systems such as Eclipse, SAP, or Microsoft Windows. Andreas Zeller is professor for software engineering at Saarland 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 Fail" received the Software Development Magazine productivity award. In 2009, his work on delta debugging got the ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award as the most influential software engineering paper of 1999.

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