Beyond Web 2.0 — How RDFa Can Help to Democratise Data on t

Google Tech Talk
June 19, 2009
ABSTRACT
Beyond Web 2.0 — How RDFa Can Help to Democratise Data on the Web.
Presented by Mark Birbeck.
Publishing to the web has never been easier, with the proliferation of content management systems, online blogging platforms, microblogging, and more. However, publishing data is either the preserve of organizations prepared to manage their own [...]

DataBasin.org: Creating incentives for people to share public GIS data

Google Tech Talks
April, 15 2008
ABSTRACT
While they might share common conservation goals, motivating advocates, scientists and policy makers to share public data is no easy task. Issues of trust, data provenance, statistical accuracy, and usability are all challenges that cause collaborative public GIS platforms to fail. Rhiza Labs CEO Josh Knauer will give an overview of [...]

Is IT ready for the Dreaded DNA Data Deluge?

Google Tech Talks
October 30, 2008
ABSTRACT
In 18 months full human genome sequences will be available under $100 – and in minutes. The $5,000 full human genome was announced to come in 9 months. Is “Big IT” ready for the avalanche of data, to be obtained and processed e.g. while the patient is still on the operating [...]

Security as a System-Level Constraint

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 [...]

Helping Consumers Buy Products that Reflect their Values; How Google’s Mobile…

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 [...]

Internet Systems Consortium’s SIE & Google Protobufs

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 [...]

Whats Eating Scientific Data? 21st Century Approaches to

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 [...]

AGU Scientists Tech Talks – Google’s Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment – Decision Support

Google Tech Talks
December 16, 2008
ABSTRACT
TITLE: Google’s Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment – Decision Support
Presented by: Kurt Schwehr
ABSTRACT: Google Maps and Google Earth have put much of the functionality of Geographic Information Systems in the hands of the end users. Maritime users are just beginning to understand the power of map
mashups that bring together diverse [...]

HOWTO: Ride your bike in the Tour de France

Google Tech Talks
May, 14 2008
ABSTRACT
Google’s own Dylan Casey will be speaking about his experience riding the TdF with the Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Team.
Check out http://www.dylancasey.com/ for more info about Dylan.
Speaker: Dylan Casey
Dylan Casey maybe best known for his prowess on the road these days, but he’s also quite accomplished on the [...]

Using Audio Technology to Reduce Global Illiteracy, Poverty

Google Tech Talks
January, 8 2008
ABSTRACT
For more info, see http://literacybridge.org/
Knowledge is power; but most knowledge is tied up in text. So how do the 774 million illiterate adults in the world access knowledge crucial to preventing disease, creating economic opportunity, and defending their political and human rights?
Cliff spent six weeks in a remote region of [...]