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.... more

Google Tech Talks June 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Explore the brain's amazing ability to change throughout a person's life. This phenomenon—called neuroplasticty—is the science behind brain fitness, and it has been called one of the most extraordinary scientific discoveries of the 20th century. PBS had recently aired.... more

Google TechTalks March 17, 2006 Ramesh Nallapati ABSTRACT A base distribution that generates data samples is a core component of generative graphical models. In the recent past, the multinomial distribution has become the default distribution for text owing mainly to its simplicity in representation and estimation..... more

Google Tech Talks January, 25 2008 ABSTRACT In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms.... more

Google Tech Talks April, 22 2008 ABSTRACT Cosmic radiation presents a very real threat to astronauts. As part of a NASA funded project to evaluate the cancer risks of a trip to Mars, Dr. Costes' team has been collecting hundreds of gigabytes of 3D and 4D imagery showing the traversal of cosmic particles in human.... more

Google Tech Talks November, 15 2007 ABSTRACT The Bloom filter, conceived by Burton H. Bloom in 1970, is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positives are possible, but false negatives are not. Elements can be added to the set, but.... more

Google Tech Talks April, 2 2008 ABSTRACT Imagine a game where two players go back and forth making moves and at the end of a fixed number of moves the position is either a win or a loss for the first player. In this case, if both players play best possible, it is determined at the first move who wins or loses..... more

Google Tech Talks February, 8 2008 ABSTRACT Emporiatrics or Travel Medicine is a discipline within medicine that prepares a traveler using vaccines, medicines and knowledge to avoid disease when visiting a foreign destination. I will discuss the current mapping of interventions offered to patients planning trips.... more

Google Tech Talks April, 10 2008 ABSTRACT Social Recommendations will change both the lens through which we see the world as well as the manner in which we experience it. Everything from the media that we consume to the events we attend will be influenced by hyper-relevant results delivered through hierarchical.... more

Google Tech Talks March, 5 2008 ABSTRACT Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information.... more