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 [...]
Fanshawe College student Kathleen speaks about her experience in the Business Information Systems program.
Duration : 0:1:30
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
