Archives for posts with tag: Technology

Mars Exploration Prizes

June 11, 10 //

Comments Off

Google Tech Talk June 10, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Chris Carberry. 428 million years ago Pneumodesmus newmani, a Late Silurian millipede made a huge evolutionary leap. It is the first recorded creature to have left its natural habitat – the early ocean – and moved to live on land. Humanity lives in a similar period today, we have just started leaving our natural habitat – the Earth. And we will soon travel and even colonize Mars. Mars prizes have been discussed for years, but this concept has never gained momentum because the majority of Mars Prize proposals have required investments of several billions of dollars with the singular goal of landing humans on the surface of Mars. While humans to Mars is our eventual goal as well, a Mars prize does not need cost billions of dollars. In actuality, important Mars related innovation can be achieved with prizes levels as small as $10000-$100000. In this talk, Explore Mars Executive Director, Chris Carberry, will discuss a series of Mars Exploration Challenges that Explore Mars, Inc. will launch starting in 2010. The first of these challenges will be the In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Challenge. With this prize, Explore Mars, Inc. will be challenging teams around the country to develop technology and innovations that will help future astronauts to be able to "live off the land" on the Martian surface. This type of challenge can be a potent force in innovating technology necessary for sending humans to Mars. Of equal <b>…</b>

17
ratings

Time:
48:00
More in
Science & Technology

Innovation Survival: Innovation in Science

April 12, 10 //

Comments Off

Innovation Survival: Innovation in Science

Google Tech Talk April 8, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by W. David Schwaderer. Innovation is essential for all progress and competitive survival. It provides a democratic vehicle for individuals and upstarts to challenge and neutralize powerful incumbents. Yet, because change accompanies innovation, it is a double-edged sword. This presentation examines the historical reception transformative scientific breakthroughs initially received before widespread adoption. By example, it teaches principles that can help ensure change agents personally, and their organizations, are on the delivering side of innovation's sharp edge. W. David Schwaderer has a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He has worked at IBM, EDS, Adaptec, Symantec, and Silicon Valley startups. He has authored six commercial software programs for a variety of machine architectures using several different languages, dozens of articles, and ten technical books that explain complex technology in approachable ways. David's soon-to-be-published 11th book follows over 10 years of research and is titled "Innovation Survival – Concept, Courage, Chance, and Change".

26
ratings

Time:
59:56
More in
Science & Technology

Searching Within the P2P World

March 23, 10 //

Comments Off

Searching Within the P2P World

Google Tech Talk February 9, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Dr. Johan Pouwelse at the Google EMEA Faculty Summit 2010. Dr JA Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Dr. ir. JA Pouwelse is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, specialized in Peer-to-Peer file sharing. He leads the P2P research team of 23 people which created the Tribler P2P system. The Tribler group is the largest experimental research group in the field of P2P and responsible for several world-first innovations. With 500000 downloads Tribler serves as a living laboratory and proving ground for next-generation P2P technology. Dr. Pouwelse is scientific director of P2P-Next and technical leader of QLective, EU projects with a combined research budget of 26 million Euro. Previously Dr. Pouwelse delivered a statement for the FTC in Washington, was a visiting scientist at MIT, and spent several summers at Harvard to study mechanisms for cooperation.

22
ratings

Time:
34:01
More in
Science & Technology

Pyongyang University of Science & Technology

March 16, 10 //

Comments Off

Pyongyang University of Science & Technology

Google Tech Talk February 11, 2010 Pyongyang University of Science & Technology: First International University in the Heart of North Korea ABSTRACT (Q&A starts at 35:55) Presented by Dr. David Kim, Vice President of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology in Pyongyang, DPRK, and the Vice President of Yanbian University of Science & Technology (YUST) in Yanji, Jilin Province, China. The opening of Pyongyang University of Science & Technology (PUST) was once thought to be an impossible dream. However, the first phase of the campus is now finished and ready to accept students in April 2010. Dr. David Kim, who serves as the Vice President of PUST, will be joining us to raise awareness about this first international university in North Korea (where the teaching language will be English), discuss recruitment of international faculty and explore fund-raising opportunities.

15
ratings

Time:
01:11:32
More in
Science & Technology

Lili Cheng: Designing Experiences for Social Computing

March 3, 10 //

Comments Off

March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture.

Meet Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, which focuses on software and services that are centered on social connectivity, real-time experiences, and rich media. Lili’s a big fan of and active participant in social communication and the interactive design of social computing on the web.

Lili talks to @ritzy and @Carmine007 about her tenure at Microsoft which started in 1995. Lili is another shining example of a successful woman in technology, but more importantly her full time job consists of both pushing the envelope of social interaction and the inventing new experiences for social computing. Push on, Lili and team!

Reading Debate with Bill Buxton

December 22, 09 //

Comments Off

TVO.org dives into a discussion about reading with a panel of guests including Microsoft Research’s Bill Buxton. As reading digital content ‘onscreen’ (whatever that screen may be) rather than in print increases, what will that mean for society? And as information delivery naturally ‘packets down’ from long-form literary novels to ever-shorter posts and tweets, are we witnessing the death of long-form storytelling?

This is an interesting dicussion worth watching. As technology adapts to humans and as humans adapt to technology I think we’ll find an ever changing balance with reading habits. Devices like e-Ink Readers and slate tablets have great benefits for long-form reading, and sales of books like Twilight and the Harry Potter series suggest that we’re still willing to invest time in a good text story even while the entropy of choice dictates that in our spare time we’re more likely to jump across info-nuggets like social networking and news aggregators.

Also see:
Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web Part 1
Bill Hill: The Future of Reading on the Web Part 2
Bill Hill: Will anyone read an onscreen book?
Bill Hill: Typography in Windows Vista

Show Us Your Tech – Mark Pendergrast Edition

December 1, 09 //

Comments Off

If there’s any geek in you at all, you’ve probably put together a combination of technology that fits your lifestyle and personality, whether it’s a modest MP3 player and speaker dock, or an executive server room like Bob Muglia rocks. From Scott Hanselman’s crib to Hakan Olsson’s big TV, to Ori Amiga’s Mesh Mobile, geeks love their tech.

Today we take a look at Mark Pendergrast’s house, a 1920s home in Seattle. Mark is Senior Product Manager of Windows Home Server so of course his renovated basement and “Guinness Cam” are tied together through his Home Server. Check it out and tell us whose home setup you’d like to see next.

Initiatives in Education

October 26, 09 //

Comments Off

Initiatives in Education

Google Tech Talk October 20, 2009 ABSTRACT Presented by Maggie Johnson, Google Director of Education and University Relations, at the NSF Computer Science Education Leadership Summit. Google believes that all students should have the opportunity to become active creators of tomorrows technology. Through our diverse set of education efforts, we invest in the next generation of computer scientists and engineers, providing opportunities for all students to engage more directly in technology. To …

16
ratings

Time:
30:07
More in
Science & Technology

Introducing Click-to-Run in Office 2010

October 8, 09 //

Comments Off

John Jendrezak and Trevor McDiarmid give us a first look at Click-to-Run, an innovative new Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) technology for Office 2010 that utilizes Microsoft’s streaming and virtualization technology (AppVirt – you learned a great deal about this technology right here on Channel 9…). It’s great to see application virtualization in the mainstream. Note that this is essentially a commercial for the new technology in Office 2010. We will go deeper in the future and in a more conversational manner. Please do ask questions here and on the Office 2010 engineering blog, where you can much more about this great addition to Office.

This May Be Your Next Mouse

October 5, 09 //

Comments Off

Today at the User Interface Software and Technology Conference, Microsoft will show five new mouse prototypes that combine normal mousing with multitouch controls. Here is a video that gives you a brief introduction to each of the controls. I’ll be meeting with this team when they get back, what questions do you have about these new mice? Which one is your most/least favorite?

Tags