Google Tech Talks
January, 17 2008
ABSTRACT
Team Cornell was one of six teams to complete the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, completing over 55 miles of autonomous driving in an urban environment in approximately seven hours, including competition stops. The competition included many urban driving scenarios such as staying in a lane, merging into traffic, passing, intersections, parking, and even robot-robot interaction. Team Cornell designed and built a vehicle around technological innovations in vehicle automation, a real time UDP based data distribution system, tightly coupled pose estimation, scene estimation including localization within an urban environment and tracking all obstacles with a fusion of laser, radar and vision sensors, and hierarchical intelligent planning. Team Cornell’s vehicle was designed to drive “human-like” with smooth, intelligent behaviors, even in the presence of a vast array of uncertainties. The systematic approach taken by Team Cornell led to an innovative, robust solution to the complex problem proposed in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. This seminar will present the key technologies, semi-final and final results, and plans for future research.
Speaker: Dan Huttenlocher
Dan Huttenlocher is the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business at Cornell University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Computer Science Department and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research interests are in computer vision, social and information networks, collaboration tools, geometric algorithms and financial trading systems. He has been recognized for his research and teaching contributions on several occasions, including being named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, New York State Professor of the Year and a Fellow of the ACM. In addition to academic posts he has been chief technical officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading systems on Wall Street, and spent more than ten years at Xerox PARC directing work that led to the ISO JBIG2 image-compression standard.
Speaker: Mark Campbell
Mark Campbell is an Associate Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests are in the areas of autonomous systems, probabilistic models of human decision making, nonlinear estimation theory, cooperative vehicle control and estimation, and sensor fusion. He has been recognized from NASA for his modeling and control work on the Middeck Active Control Experiment, flown on STS-67 in 1995. He received best paper awards from the AIAA and Frontiers in Education conference, and teaching awards Cornell, University of Washington, and the ASEE. He was also an Australian Research Council International Fellowship in 2006 while on sabbatical at the University of Sydney. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, an Associate Director of the AACC board, and member of the AIAA GNC Technical Committee, and is active in both IEEE and ASEE.
Duration : 1:6:12
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Human Resources Management (HRM) involves developing policies, procedures and programs to ensure that an organization has an adequate number of people with the right knowledge, skills and abilities to achieve its objectives. When HRM is aligned with the strategic goals and objectives of an organization, it becomes a strategic partner in the management of the organization.
Centennial Colleges unique approach incorporates current trends in the strategic management of human resources, the affirmation of diversity and human rights and the promotion of positive union/ management relations. You will develop expertise in all major areas of human resource management such as human planning, recruitment, selection, orientation, employee training and development, occupational health and safety, compensation and benefits, employee relations, labour relations and human resource management systems.
The program emphasizes the ability to analyze and interpret financial and accounting information for decision-making purposes. Legal issues are covered from a proactive, rather than compliance, perspective. Finally, the use of integrated human resource systems software and computer skills to manage information and support decision-making is taught.
Duration : 0:1:3
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The Computer Information Systems curriculum emphasizes a systems approach to problem solving and evolves with the changing needs of business and technology. Students examine technical challenges within the context of the work environment. They learn the importance of being good communicators, team players as well as the skills needed to respond to the complexities of evolving hardware and software.
Duration : 0:3:25
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Computer and information systems managers plan, coordinate, and direct research and facilitate the computer-related activities of firms. They help determine both technical and business goals in consultation with top management and make detailed plans for the accomplishment of these goals. This requires a strong understanding of both technology and business practices. A bachelors degree usually is required for management positions, although employers often prefer a graduate degree, especially an MBA with technology as a core component.
Duration : 0:2:17
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Health Informatics Technology will incorporate knowledge of both information technology and health care systems. The skills acquired by the graduates will enable them to design, develop, modify, and test software for health care applications. The graduates from this program will be able to analyze and model data, develop health care databases, apply different computer medical-imaging techniques, use tools, algorithms and health informatics methods for hospitals, schools, health care agencies, and public health departments. The coursework will emphasize object-oriented software design methodologies, user-oriented interface design, structure of health care information systems, telehealth, data security and privacy in health care systems, C#, Java, J2EE, Oracle, MS-SQL Server, Unix/Linux, Microsoft’s .NET, HTML/XML, Rational/WebSphere, Data warehousing and Data mining, and BI tools in health care systems, etc.
Duration : 0:1:13
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Google Tech Talks
May 15, 2008
ABSTRACT
Severe flood disasters may frequently occur in near future because global warming will change the flood risk. To prepare the disaster, we propose global flood simulation software which simulates flood flow in
short time on an earth viewer (i.e., global geographical information system). User can edit a flood scenario such as the location of levee failure by clicking on the earth viewer, then the software simulate the
flood flow based on fluid dynamics. The simulation and GIS communicate each other using our technology, the flood information are visualized on the viewer even during the simulation. I will make a presentation about
the technology and show how to work our flood simulation software.
Speaker: Satoshi Yamaguchi
I specialize in the geophysics, hydrodynamics and software development such as geographical information system (GIS). I conduct a research on flood disaster and develop flood simulation software on our original GIS for a number of years in Hitachi Central Research Laboratory. I studied physical oceanography in Tohoku University and received masters degree.
Duration : 0:26:12
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Google Tech Talks
June, 9 2008
ABSTRACT
Presented by
Andrew B. Whinston
Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
Mccombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
Based on a joint research with Jianqing Chen and De Liu
Abstract:
Internet-based advertising continues to increase in importance. Internet advertising providers such as Google and Yahoo! allocate their advertising resources using a novel form of share auctions in which the highest advertiser gets the largest share, the second highest advertiser gets the second largest share, and so on. A share structure problem arises in such a setting regarding how much resources to set aside for the highest advertiser, for the second highest advertiser, etc. We address this problem under a general specification and derive implications on how the optimal share structure should change with advertisers’ price elasticity of demand for exposure, their valuation distribution, total resources, and minimum bids.
Full Synopsis here:
http://docs.google.com/a/google.com/Doc?id=cdvbh2g5_1621cg97gcct
Speaker: Dr. Andrew B. Whinston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_B._Whinston
Andrew B. Whinston is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in E-Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Whinston is also a fellow of the IC2 Institute, Austin.
At the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in December 2005, Prof. Whinston was awarded “The LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems” by the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
Andrew Whinston has been a major contributor to the field since information systems began as an academic discipline. His research record is exemplary, his publications are many, his doctoral graduates are found throughout the field in all parts of the world, and his innovative research has enlightened critical developments in the field.
Duration : 1:6:7
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Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world’s knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC…
Duration : 0:48:58
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Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world’s knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC…
Duration : 0:48:58
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Google Tech Talks
October 31, 2008
ABSTRACT
In knowledge-based information retrieval, search engines consult external sources of knowledge ontologies, taxonomies, thesauri, glossaries, gazeteers to help process the documents they encounter and the requests they receive. The idea is old, obvious, and compelling but results have been singularly unimpressive. The best performing and most widely used search systems are still those that deal in lexical character patterns without using any structured knowledge to understand them.
Wikipedia is changing all that. This open, constantly evolving encyclopedia represents a vast pool of topics and semantic relations. It is arguably the largest knowledge base humanity has ever seen. At last we have a resource that is (or may be) sufficiently broad, deep, and timely to be applicable to open-domain information retrieval. However, it brings its own challenges. Wikipedia’s haphazard and only partially machine-readable structure bears little resemblance to the carefully crafted knowledge bases that have been used to assist information retrieval in the past.
This talk will discuss Wikipedia’s promises and shortcomings, and describe ongoing investigations of how best to apply it to organizing and retrieving information.
Speaker: David Milne
David Milne is a PhD student at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, where he studies under the supervision of Prof. Ian H. Witten.
Duration : 0:49:27
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