A National History Day presentation on Geographic Information Systems:
Theme: Innovation in History – 2009 – 2010
Information on how the technology of GIS has impacted society.
NHD Texas State Level.
A special thanks to ALL interviewees:
Paul Amos – Lab Director at University of Pennsylvania
Learon Dalby – GIS Program Manager – State of Arkansas
Joe Francica – Editor-in-Chief of Directions Magazine
Patricia Longas – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Logan Parker – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Tom Shupe – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Dion Duran – GIS Programmer – EPCO
Chris Johnson – Lead Investigator for Virtual Alabama
Michael Jones – CTO and Lead Developer of Google Earth
Carl Reed – CTO Open Geospatial Consortium
Duration : 0:9:49
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Google Tech Talks
June 4, 2008
ABSTRACT
The essence of system-level design is the need to concurrently consider information from multiple engineering domains across multiple subsystems to assess holistic system properties. The systems engineer is responsible for bringing together all facets of a system for evaluation of system-level requirements and to aid in understanding system impacts of local design decisions. System-level security, encompassing issues such as confidentiality of information, integrity and authenticity of information sources, and availability of critical
services, is one of many interacting system-level issues that must be addressed. To evaluate system-level security, we must treat security requirements as system-level properties, addressing their satisfaction
in the same manner as traditional system-level issues such as power consumption or safety. Specifically, we must provide support for representing system-level security requirements; composing and integrating information from heterogeneous models; and establishing dependencies between models to assess the security health of a complete system. This talk overviews work surrounding the the Rosetta system-level design language with emphasis on efforts to specify, synthesize and verify software defined radios.
Speaker: Perry Alexander
Dr. Perry Alexander is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and Director of the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center’s Computer Systems Design Laboratory at The University of Kansas. His research interests include system-level modeling, security and assurance, design
languages, heterogeneous specification, language semantics, and embedded systems. He received the BSEE and BSCS in 1986, the MSEE in 1988, and the PhD in 1992 all from The University of Kansas. From September 1992 through July 1999 he was a faculty member and director of The Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science department at The University of Cincinnati. He is the chief architect of the Rosetta system specification language and author of System-Level Design using Rosetta published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2006. Dr. Alexander has published over 90 refereed research papers and has presented numerous invited presentations. He has won 15 teaching awards, was named a Kemper Teaching Fellow and won the ASEE Midwest Region Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003. He is a Senior Member of ACM, Sigma Xi, and a Senior Member of IEEE where he served as Chair of the
Engineering of Computer-Based Systems Engineering Technical Committee and currently serves as Chair of the DASC P1699 Rosetta Working Group.
Duration : 0:39:14
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Are they mining your own business?
Because it is important to make Goog, Twit, YT, MS and FB work FOR you, not against you, empower yourself by cultivating your privacy.
Information Awareness Office
http://tinyurl.com/yglpdov
Carnivore (software)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Ethernet tapping system
http://tinyurl.com/ykl7rup
Echelon Corporation
automatic phone tap and conversation recording
http://tinyurl.com/ylewgye
Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE)
http://tinyurl.com/qfga3h
United States Department of Homeland Security Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment possess the ability to store one quadrillion data entities[
The program was officially scrapped in September 2007 after the agency’s internal Inspector General found that pilot testing of the system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place. Right.
In-Q-Tel
http://tinyurl.com/yjg3hoj
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
http://tinyurl.com/yb26uls
“Hey Google, just what part of ‘Don’t be evil’ are you failing to grasp?”
http://tinyurl.com/6bug6t
Data Mining
http://tinyurl.com/yf4qdx8
Profiling Practices
http://tinyurl.com/yzxkos8
coming right out in the open… now get your own Google Profile
http://tinyurl.com/5eb5lm
In 2006, Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stock.
Opening score sampled from ‘New World Order’ by DJ Chris Geo
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/truth-frequency
The AT Handbook on Amazon
UK: http://tinyurl.com/mwgmjo
US: http://tinyurl.com/mpauum
CA: http://tinyurl.com/y9c5qdk
http://www.theantiterrorist.co.uk
theantiterrorist@hotmail.com
Duration : 0:9:24
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Are they mining your own business?
Because it is important to make Goog, Twit, YT, MS and FB work FOR you, not against you, empower yourself by cultivating your privacy.
Information Awareness Office
http://tinyurl.com/yglpdov
Carnivore (software)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Ethernet tapping system
http://tinyurl.com/ykl7rup
Echelon Corporation
automatic phone tap and conversation recording
http://tinyurl.com/ylewgye
Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE)
http://tinyurl.com/qfga3h
United States Department of Homeland Security Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment possess the ability to store one quadrillion data entities[
The program was officially scrapped in September 2007 after the agency’s internal Inspector General found that pilot testing of the system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place. Right.
In-Q-Tel
http://tinyurl.com/yjg3hoj
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
http://tinyurl.com/yb26uls
“Hey Google, just what part of ‘Don’t be evil’ are you failing to grasp?”
http://tinyurl.com/yzc283n
Data Mining
http://tinyurl.com/yf4qdx8
Profiling Practices
http://tinyurl.com/yzxkos8
coming right out in the open… now get your own Google Profile
http://tinyurl.com/5eb5lm
In 2006, Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stock.
Opening score sampled from ‘New World Order’ by DJ Chris Geo
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/truth-frequency
The AT Handbook on Amazon
UK: http://tinyurl.com/mwgmjo
US: http://tinyurl.com/mpauum
CA: http://tinyurl.com/y9c5qdk
http://www.theantiterrorist.co.uk
theantiterrorist@hotmail.com
Duration : 0:10:59
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Google Tech Talks
February, 8 2008
ABSTRACT
Internet searching and advertising increasingly plays a role in consumer decisions and purchases, yet pertinent information for making value-judgments is currently awkward to ferret out and certainly not universally accessible or useful. There is rarely a feedback loop aligning vendor or manufacturer’s environmental, social or governance policies with a shopper’s values, so shoppers, over time, rarely cause industries to change their behavior.
There needs to be a way for shoppers to aim their purchasing power at achieving social values of highest regional priority. There needs to be a way to accumulate and redeem "social values rewards". What’s missing is timely and impactful analysis of a candidate purchases’ impact on the Shopper’s family, region and planet (expressed according to their values), so that the purchaser can more easily make informed purchasing decisions.
With some modifications to Google ads and Google product search, Google could solidify the feedback loop and help consumers, by their actions, build a greener and better world.
Speaker: Bruce Cahan
Bruce B. Cahan, President Urban Logic, Inc. (a nonprofit organization)
Email: bcahan@urbanlogic.org
Bruce Cahan is an Ashoka Fellow, a social entrepreneur, a non-residential fellow of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, a lawyer, and a banker.
In 1989, a steam pipe exploded outside his apartment building, spraying the neighborhood with 220 pounds of asbestos wrapping in an 18-story geyser of steam for several hours. After that, Bruce foresaw New York City’s need for geospatial preparedness, and founded Urban Logic, a New York nonprofit, to make America’s cities safer and sustainable. Bruce convinced New York to fund and build a multi-agency GIS basemap.
As a bond lawyer, he found $20+ million in the City’s capital budget to pay for its GIS utility.
NYC’s basemap was completed just 6 months before the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, and aided in coordinated response and recovery. In the months after September 11th, Bruce joined others at the City’s Command Center to organize and staff its Emergency Mapping and Data Center. His team supplied the Mayor’s Office, Fire, Police, EMS, military, public health, environment, news and other groups with up-to-date maps of rapidly changing conditions at Ground Zero and throughout Manhattan. Bruce was the catalyst for deploying OpenGIS’
SensorWeb project to monitor environmental conditions citywide, and other innovations.
Taking 9/11’s lessons, Bruce designed the federal OMB’s I-Team Initiative to strategically plan and implement spatial readiness across 49 states. Bruce’s knowledge of finance, law and organizational barriers to spatial awareness and urban innovation comes from researching and writing major studies for the federal government, including . Financing the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (FGDC 2000) . Aligning Investments in Environmental Monitoring and Management Information Systems (EPA 2002) . The Value Proposition for GeoSpatial One Stop (OMB 2004) . A Regional Portfolio Investor’s Toolkit (USGS 2006)
In 2005, Bruce moved to Silicon Valley to organize two market-driven mechanisms that support urban sustainability. The first he calls the Means MeterTM, a tool for socially-purposeful consumers to buy products that reflect their values. The second is a bank that amplifies the sustainable impacts of Means MeterTM consumers and their vendors. The bank will reward choices that grow Sustainable ResiliencyTM. Bruce’s bank would serve consumers, businesses, NGOs and governments. The bank would offer credit, insurance, investment and merchant banking services, and scale pricing and interest rates based on each customer’s impact on Sustainable ResiliencyTM.
Bruce graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple Law School. Bruce practiced law for 10 years with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he specialized in structuring and negotiating complex corporate, bond, creditor’s rights and real estate finance and ot…
Duration : 0:50:6
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Are they mining your own business?
Because it is important to make Goog, Twit, YT, MS and FB work FOR you, not against you, empower yourself by cultivating your privacy.
Information Awareness Office
http://tinyurl.com/yglpdov
Carnivore (software)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Ethernet tapping system
http://tinyurl.com/ykl7rup
Echelon Corporation
automatic phone tap and conversation recording
http://tinyurl.com/ylewgye
Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE)
http://tinyurl.com/qfga3h
United States Department of Homeland Security Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment possess the ability to store one quadrillion data entities[
The program was officially scrapped in September 2007 after the agency’s internal Inspector General found that pilot testing of the system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place. Right.
In-Q-Tel
http://tinyurl.com/yjg3hoj
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
http://tinyurl.com/yb26uls
“Hey Google, just what part of ‘Don’t be evil’ are you failing to grasp?”
http://tinyurl.com/6bug6t
Data Mining
http://tinyurl.com/yf4qdx8
Profiling Practices
http://tinyurl.com/yzxkos8
coming right out in the open… now get your own Google Profile
http://tinyurl.com/5eb5lm
In 2006, Google bought YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stock.
Opening score sampled from ‘New World Order’ by DJ Chris Geo
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/truth-frequency
The AT Handbook on Amazon
UK: http://tinyurl.com/mwgmjo
US: http://tinyurl.com/mpauum
CA: http://tinyurl.com/y9c5qdk
http://www.theantiterrorist.co.uk
theantiterrorist@hotmail.com
Duration : 0:10:36
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Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, speaks at the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business Deans’ Conference on February 06, 2009 about managing knowledge workers at Google.
Duration : 0:31:32
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In this business tv show, Google’s European Enterprise Director Roberto Solimene explains the thinking that drives Google Enterprise, how they are working to organise the world’s information to make it more accessible and useful, and how these ideas could change the very way we work:
“So Google enterprise really was created like about three and a half years ago in the US. It started as I said before as a response to our customers or to the markets requesting to have a similar experience inside their companies as they had it on the internet. The first product was the Google search appliance and then in December 2004 we started the business here in Europe as well and it has been a fantastic growth.
We now have offices all over main Europe. We have sales, we have presales people, we have marketing people. We of course work together with the main Google organisation but it has been one of the fastest growing divisions inside the company.
The reason why there has been so much growth is because we have been simplifying tasks which were originally complex. So imagine using an iPod or using a TomTom, they are a very complex system in the background but very simple for the user. We want to bring the same experience to the users of our search appliance.
So imagine you are an employee and you go to the office and your searching your corporate intranet just as easily as when you are searching Google.com for example.
As a lot of people know our founders motto is to organise the world information and make it accessible and useful. We found out that more than 70 percent of the world’s information is actually behind a firewall. So imagine your corporate intranet, imagine your docs management system, imagine your databases, this is where most of the world’s information is.
We thought it was a great thing to do to bring our products to the corporate world as well as to the consumer world.”
See more business news television shows from Roberto Solimene at Google, as he gives his top expert business …
Duration : 0:2:21
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Google Tech Talk
December 3, 2009
ABSTRACT
Presented by Robert Edmonds, Eric Ziegast, and Paul Vixie.
ISC SIE (Security Information Exchange) is a trusted, private framework for information sharing in the Internet Security field. Participants can operate real time sensors that upload and/or inject live data to SIE, and other participants can subscribe to this data either in real time, or by query access, or by limited and anonymized download. While SIE began in 2007 with a method for collecting and sharing raw packet captures for Passive DNS in near real time, correlation with other data types and data sources was required. SIE needed a way to efficiently pass structured data between participating nodes in the loosely-coupled broadcast ethernet message bus. We would like to present why SIE selected Google Protocol Buffers, how we utilize the technology within SIE, and how security researchers can use the libraries (libnmsg), APIs and tools for real-time analysis of disparate data sources.
Duration : 0:49:57
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Google Tech Talk
June 17, 2009
ABSTRACT
Whats eating Scientific Data? 21st Century Approaches to Discovering (Chemical) Data
Presented by Jim Downing and Nico Adams.
The web of documents and unstructured information is slowly but inexorably evolving towards a web of data. The increasing data-centricity of the web is driven by the next generation of web-applications and the future evolution of search – the searching of structured data is the value proposition behind a recent spate of start-ups in the search space. Furthermore, the internet in general and the semantic web in particular are revolutionising the way in which science communicates, manages and exchanges data, impacting all areas of scientific endeavour from scholarly communication through to laboratory management and data analysis and mining.
Chemistry is the central physical science and at the heart of modern research into new drugs, new materials and new personal care products. All of these products require the confluence of structured data from a number of different domains and often advances in science can be viewed as a data integration problem and therefore the availability as well as the discoverability of high-quality scientific/chemical data on the internet is of the utmost importance.
In this talk we will discuss recent developments in the semantic toolstack for chemistry, starting with markup languages for chemical data, RDF vocabularies as well as ontologies (ChemAxiom) for chemicals and materials (data). It will illustrate how ontologies can be used for indexing, faceted search and retrieval of chemical information and for the “axiomatisation” of chemical entities and materials beyond simple notions of chemical structure. We will discuss the use of linked data to generate new chemical insights and will provide a brief discussion of the use of our entity extraction and natural language processing system OSCAR for the “semantification” of chemical information. We will demonstrate the use of authoring tools (Chem4Word) for the generation of structured “datuments” (data + documents) on the web as well as the Lensfield data processing and publication system. There will also be a brief discussion on how some of the principles developed for chemistry can be applied to other domains, such as biomedical research. Finally, we will review some of the challenges that are facing both chemical data and the adoption of semantic web technologies today.
Biosketch Nico Adams:
Nico Adams read chemistry the University of York and subsequently worked as a research chemist at DSM Research (The Netherlands) and Cambridge Combinatorial (now Millenium Pharmaceuticals, UK), on the combinatorial synthesis and screening of early transition metal olefin polymerisation catalysts. He subsequently became a member of the group of Prof P. Mountford at the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford to read towards his doctoral degree in organometallic chemistry. In 2003 he joined the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven as a post-doctoral research associate (group of Prof U. S. Schubert) and the Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) as a project leader in polymer informatics. In 2006 he joined the University of Cambridge as a research associate, where he manages a research group in polymer informatics. His main research interests lie in the area of combinatorial and solid phase organometallic chemistry, materials and polymer informatics, the use of polymers for biomedical applications as well as ontological engineering and the semantic web.
Biosketch Jim Downing:
After completing a Masters in computational fluids and mechanics, Jim spent 4 years with a small software start-up in Cambridge working on information and knowledge systems in science and engineering research, and later in public sector information. He moved to the University of Cambridge in 2004 to work on the Open Source DSpace institutional repository software. Working with early adopters of the DSpace system at Cambridge (particularly Prof. Peter Murray-Rust) led to an interest in chemical information, and to Jim joining Prof. Murray-Rust’s group to develop software architectures for chemical information, including a move towards semantic web technologies and RESTful web APIs. Jim is currently interested in the application of Linked Data in chemistry and the opportunities and challenges presented by functional programming languages in cheminformatics.
Duration : 0:59:1
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