Google TechTalks
By Google TechTalks
Categories: Science, Mathematics, Technology
Google Tech Talks is a grass-roots program at Google for sharing information of interest to the technical community. At its best, it's part of an ongoing discussion about our world featuring top experts in diverse fields. Presentations range from the broadest of perspective overviews to the most technical of deep dives, on topics well-established to wildly speculative.Disclaimer: Google TechTalks are designed to disseminate a wide spectrum of views on topics including Current Affairs, Science, Medicine, Engineering, Business, Humanities, Law, Entertainment, and the Arts. The views or opinions expressed by the guest speakers are solely their own and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Google, Inc.Credits: The original title animation and theme were created by Nick Thomas. The mid-2016 title animation was designed by Matt McDonald. The mid-2016 theme music was composed and created by Mark Lentczner (https://soundcloud.com/mtnviewmark).
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- THIRST: How to Dig a Well
Google Tech TalksOctober, 22 2007ABSTRACTAntonio Gutierrez presents an opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of the progress and hope in the lives of the native people in Benin and Togo, Western Africa. Antonio has spent 20 years bringing hope to this region through extensive human development…
- BayPIGgies Meeting - SF Bay Area Python Interest Group - Python Callbacks
Google Tech TalksJune 13, 2008ABSTRACTDon't call us, we'll call you: callback patterns and idioms in Python Callbacks (the general "Don't call us, we'll call you" pattern) are a crucial technique for concurrency, event-driven programming (in a disparate variety of fields, from GUIs to parsing)…
- Beyond Trust: Proving Fairness and Privacy in Machine Learning
A Google TechTalk, 2024-10-09, presented by Ali Shahin ShamsabadiML Privacy Seminar. ABSTRACT: Significant efforts have been made in the literature to develop differentially private and fairness-aware training algorithms, but how can we trust that institutions are genuinely deploying these…
- Similarity Search: A Web Perspective
Google Tech TalksOctober, 18 2007ABSTRACTSimilarity search is the problem of preprocessing a database of N objects in such a way that given a query object, one can effectively determine its nearest neighbors in database. "Geometric near-neighbor access tree" data structure, an early work (1995) by…
- Data Mixture Inference: What do BPE Tokenizers Reveal about their Training Data?
A Google TechTalk, 2024-09-25, presented by Jonathan HayaseML Privacy Seminar. ABSTRACT: The pretraining data of today's strongest language models is opaque. In particular, little is known about the proportions of various domains or languages represented. In this work, we tackle a task which we…
- (re-)Organizing and (non-)transactions
Google Tech TalksOctober, 18 2007ABSTRACTThe world of open source software (OSS) is a social system, and all such socialities are based on particular assumptions. The everyday life of OSS has been explained in terms of a gift-economy, a complex system based on the cyclic exchange of gifts and…
- The Surprising Effectiveness of Membership Inference with Simple N-Gram Coverage
A Google TechTalk, 2026-01-21, presented by Skyler HallinanABSTRACT: Membership inference attacks serves as useful tool for fair use of language models, such as detecting potential copyright infringement and auditing data leakage. However, many current state-of-the-art attacks require access to…
- Implementing Drupal
Google Tech TalksOctober, 8 2007ABSTRACTGeoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Producer at The George Lucas Educational Foundation, and Angie Byron of Lullabot will talk aboout Drupal development and implementation.Uploaded 26-10-07Speaker: Geoff ButterfieldSpeaker: Angie Byron
- Noa Epstein - Middle East Education through Technology
The Google LAX office hosted the CEO and Co-Director of MEET (Middle East Education through Technology), Noa Epstein on 2012/11/06.Uploaded 02-01-13Founded in 2004 by a Googler and a team of Palestinians and Israelis, MEET is a program that is using technology and business to educate and empower…
- Differentially Private Prototypes for Imbalanced Transfer Learning
A Google TechTalk, 2024-08-28, presented by Dariush WahdanyML Privacy Seminar. ABSTRACT: Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to leak private information from their training datasets. Differential Privacy (DP), typically implemented through the differential private stochastic gradient…
- Git
Google Tech TalksOctober, 12 2007ABSTRACTWhen 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…
- Organizing the World's Scientific Knowledge to make it Universally Accessible and Powerful:
Google Tech TalkApril 30, 2013(more info below)Presented by: Gully BurnsABSTRACTNot all information is created equal. Accurate, innovative scientific knowledge generally has an enormous impact on humanity. It is the source of our ability to make predictions about our environment. It is the source…
- KML, EarthBrowser and the virtual globe as a platform
Google Tech TalksJuly, 15 2008ABSTRACTKML is the default language of virtual globes, however it only delivers static data with pre-set rules of behavior. Using EarthBrowser as an example, new ideas for creating, presenting and controlling earth based information will be explored.Uploaded…
- How Google Impacts Global Education:
How Google Impacts Global Education: Introducing the Google API usages within the computer adaptive formative assessment(more info below)Uploaded 01-05-13Google Tech TalkApril 30, 2013Presented by Jaehwa ChoiABSTRACTThe purpose of this presentation is introducing the Google APIs applications…
- GAMEFACE : Developing Typefaces for the Xbox 360 and Other Devices
Google Tech TalksJuly, 15 2008ABSTRACTThe Xbox 360 game platform was released with a great deal of fanfare surrounding its new product design and user interface. The developers saw the need for a tight brand consistency with print, packaging, and product interface, and chose to commission a new…
- The Python Object Model
Google Tech TalksOctober 26, 2005Uploaded 09-09-08ABSTRACTAlex Martelli on the Python Object Model.
- Building and Interacting with Virtual Brain
Google Tech TalkApril 12, 2013(more info below)Presented by Randy McIntoshABSTRACTThe Virtual Brain (TVB, thevirtualbrain.org) is an international project that uses real neuroimaging data to construct a simulation of the human brain. Anatomical data setup the conduit for communication between…
- Digging Beyond User Preferences
Google Tech TalksJuly, 16 2008ABSTRACTMany of the applications you develop are applications you would use. This makes it easy to know what will work and what won't. At some point, however, you'll find yourself developing something that you would only occasionally use, and suddenly you're treading…
- GTAC 2013: Drinking the Ocean - Finding XSS at Google Scale
http://g.co/gtac2013Slides: http://goo.gl/8qqHAClaudio Criscione, GoogleCross site scripting, or XSS, is the modern-day equivalent of the middle-ages black plague in the web application world: it's widespread, it's bad and there are little or no technical ways to detect it until it's too late. DOM…
- "Flex Your API Skills to the Max!" : Using Maps + AJAX APIs in AS3/Flex
Google Tech TalksJuly, 14 2008ABSTRACTWe'll go over what the new Maps API for Flash can do, and show how to easily integrate it with other libraries for parsing XML/GeoRSS/KML/JSON. We'll also show how to use it with the non-JS version of the Google AJAX libraries.Uploaded 22-07-08The talk will…
- GTAC 2013: AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer -- Dynamic Testing Tools for C++
http://g.co/gtac2013Slides: http://goo.gl/FPVd8Kostya Serebryany, GoogleAddressSanitizer (ASan) is a tool that finds buffer overflows (in stack, heap and globals) and use-after-free bugs in C/C++ programs.ThreadSanitizer (TSan) finds data races in C/C++ and Go programs.MemorySanitizer (MSan) is a…
- If You Had Everything Computationally Where Would You Put it, Financially?
Google Tech TalksMay 5, 2008ABSTRACTTechnology has transformed investment and trading over the past 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disintermediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediated when investors have access to primary sources at the…
- Bone-Safe Yoga
Google Tech TalkNovember 13, 2012(more info below)Presented by Kathleen Cody, Shelley Powers, and Annie ApplebyABSTRACTYoga is a great practice for reducing stress and enhancing your well-being. But, did you know that some poses can be harmful as you get older? Take time to understand the risky…
- GTAC 2013: Empirical Investigation of Software Product Line Quality
http://g.co/gtac2013Slides: http://goo.gl/pPQ1uKaterina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia UniversitySoftware product lines exhibit high degree of commonality among the systems in the product line and a well specified number of possible variations. Based on data extracted from two case studies - a…
- Nighttime Story: Learning From Early Success of One Thousand and One Rails Ap...
Google Tech TalksJuly, 17 2008ABSTRACTThree companies recently collaborated to use DTrace, a powerful open source process introspection tool to find and fix a substantial Rails latency issue.Uploaded 22-07-08Teams from Joyent and Twitter and DTrace developer Bryan Cantrill from Sun joined forces…
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