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| The Web That Wasn't |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 23 2007
ABSTRACT
For most of us who work on the Internet, the Web
is all we have ever really known. It's almost
impossible to imagine a world without browsers,
URLs and HTTP. But in the years leading up to Tim
Berners-Lee's world-changing invention, a few
visionary information scientists were exploring
alternative systems that often bore little
resemblance to the Web as we know it today. In
this presentation, author and information
architect Alex Wright will explore the heritage of
these almost-forgotten systems in search of
promising ideas left by the historical wayside.
The presentation will focus on the pioneering work
of Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, and Doug Engelbart,
forebears of the 1960s and 1970s like Ted Nelson,
Andries van Dam, and the Xerox PARC team, and more
recent forays like Brown's Intermedia system.
We'll trace the heritage of these systems and the
solutions they suggest to present day Web
quandaries, in hopes of finding clues to the
future in the recent technological past.
Speaker: Alex Wright
Alex Wright is an information architect at the New
York Times and the author of Glut: Mastering
Information Through the Ages. Previously, Alex has
led projects for The Long Now Foundation,
California Digital Library, Harvard University,
IBM, Microsoft, Rollyo and Sun Microsystems, among
others. He maintains a personal Web site at
http://www.alexwright.org/
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| Wuala - a distributed file system |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 30 2007
ABSTRACT
After three years of research and development on a
distributed storage system, we are ready to unveil
the result: Wuala. Wuala is a new way of storing,
sharing, and publishing files on the internet.
Unlike traditional online storage systems, Wuala
is decentralized and can harness idle resources of
participating computers to build a large, secure,
and reliable online storage. This enables its
users to trade parts of their local storage for
online storage and it allows us to provide a
better service for free. In the talk, I will
explain what Wuala is and how it works, and I will
also show a demo. All attendees will also get an
invitation code to join the early alpha version.
Speaker: Dominik Grolimund
I am 26 years old and have studied computer
science at ETH Zurich. In 1998, I founded my
software company Caleido, and developed the
Caleido Address-Book, a professional contact
management software, of which over 35'000 licenses
have been sold so far in Switzerland, Germany and
Austria.
In 2003, I did an exchange semester at the TU
Delft, the Netherlands, as part of the Unitech
exchange program, focusing on business and
management. In 2004, a six-month internship
followed with Siemens Corporate Research in
Princeton, New Jersey in the US, where I worked in
the 'Intelligent Vision & Reasoning' department,
developing a prod...
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| Git |
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Google Tech Talks
October, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
When 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 their source code
repository management, a homegrown solution that
is optimized for highly distributed development,
working with huge sets of files, merging
independent work at multiple levels, and seeing
who broke what. (Git has also since been notably
adopted by the Cairo, x.org, and Wine teams, and
is being transitioned to by the Mozilla codebase.)
In my talk, I describe what "git"; is and isn't,
and why you should use it instead of CVS,
Subversion, SVK, Arch, Darcs, Mercurial, Monotone,
Bazaar, and just about every other repository
manager. I'll also walk though the basic concepts
so that the manpages might start making sense. If
I have time, I'll even do a live walkthrough,
where you can watch how fast I make typos.
Speaker: Randal Schwartz
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| Prince XML: Generating High Quality PDFs from HTML + CSS |
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Google Tech Talks
November, 12 2007
ABSTRACT
Please welcome Håkon Lie and Michael Day, who
will be presenting Prince XML.
Prince Overview: Prince is a computer program that
converts XML and HTML into PDF documents. Prince
can read many XML formats, including XHTML and
SVG. Prince formats documents according to style
sheets written in CSS.
Dynamic data-driven documents: Prince is an ideal
printing component for server-based software such
as web applications and database systems. Using
Prince, data in XML can easily be converted to PDF
documents that can be printed, archived or
downloaded over the web.
Electronic publishing: Prince can also be used by
authors and publishers to typeset and print
documents written in HTML, XHTML or one of the
many XML-based document formats. Prince is capable
of formatting academic papers, scientific
journals, novels, and books with extensive
illustrations.
Speaker: Håkon Wium Lie
Håkon Wium Lie, YesLogic Director: Håkon is a
web pioneer, having proposed CSS while working
with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1994. Håkon
became a devotee when he found that Prince could
format his book on CSS (co-authored with Bert Bos)
and his PhD thesis. Håkon is a graduate of MIT's
Media Lab and is also the CTO of Opera Software.
Speaker: Michael Day
Michael Day, YesLogic CEO: Michael is the system
architect for Prince. He has implemented the CSS
processing module, which supports many pioneering
CSS features including CSS3 Selectors and Paged
Media properties. In 2003, he joined the W3C CSS
working group as an invited expert.
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| Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action |
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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 to explore new
forms of interaction.
In this talk, we will explore the motivation
behind Quicksilver, highlights of its
implementation, lessons learned from its design,
and the ways it might inform the future of
navigation for the desktop and the web.
Speaker: Nicholas Jitkoff Credits:
Speaker:Nicholas Jitkoff
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| Ruby 1.9 |
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Google Tech Talks
February, 20 2008
ABSTRACT
Ruby 1.9
Speaker: Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matsumoto Yukihiro, a.k.a.
Matz, born 14 April 1965) is a Japanese computer
scientist and software programmer best known as
the chief designer of the Ruby programming
language.
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western
Honshu. According to an interview conducted by
Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until
the end of high school. He graduated with an
information science degree from Tsukuba
University, where he associated himself with
research departments dealing with programming
languages and compilers.
As of 2006, Matsumoto is the head of the research
and development department at the Network Applied
Communication Laboratory, an open source systems
integrator company in Shimane prefecture. He is a
member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and served as a missionary for the church.
Matsumoto is married and has four children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto
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| jQuery |
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Google Tech Talks
April, 3 2008
ABSTRACT
jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands out
among its competitors
because it is faster, focuses on writing less
code, and is very
extensible. In this talk, I will explore jQuery
and how to use it. I
will start off talking about the basics of using
jQuery. Then, I will
talk about building plugins. Finally, time
permitting, I will take
apart some plugins and talk about how they work,
and I will show the
nitty gritty details of the library.
Speaker: Dmitri Gaskin
Dmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for
breakfast every
morning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal
know-it-all. He
contributes patches for both Open Source projects.
In the Drupal
world, he maintains many modules, is on the
security team, and is
involved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a
mentor and
administrator. Dmitri has given many talks on
Drupal and jQuery, in
such places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live on a
radio show out of
L.A. When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare
occurrence, he is playing
and composing contemporary music. And attending
classes in the 6th
grade. (He's only 12.)
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| Gerd Leonhard Tech Talk at Google London |
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Gerd Leonhard is a Music & Media Futurist, Author,
Speaker, Advisor, and Digital Media Entrepreneur.
The Wall Street Journal calls Gerd one of the
leading media futurists in the world. He is the
Co-Author of the influential book "The Future of
Music" (2005, Berklee Press), as well as the
author of "Music2.0" (released 2/2008
www.music20book.com), and of "Open is King - The
Future of Media beyond Control" (late 2008).
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