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Don't Make Me Click Google Tech Talks April, 2 2008 ABSTRACT What's made Google search, Facebook, the iPod, and Firefox household names? They all keep interaction to a minimum. The best presentation of content is the one which requires the least number of clicks and choices. Information overload is daunting: Few clicks and choices means more people stay and use your site. Avoiding interaction seduction allows you to create interfaces that are easier to learn and faster to use with surprisingly delightful interfaces. As an example, we'll see what Google search would have looked like if the Lobby For Advancement Of Carpal-Tunnel Syndrome had got their way. Speaker: Aza Raskin Aza gave his first talk on user interface at age 10 and got hooked. At 17, he was talking and consulting internationally; at 19, he coauthored a physics textbook because he was too young to buy alcohol; at 21, he started drinking alcohol and co-founded Humanized. Two years later, Aza founded Songza.com, a minimalist music search engine that had over a million song plays during it's first week of operation. After Humanized was sucked into Mozilla, Aza became Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs. In another life, Aza has done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in math and physics. When not working (ha!) Aza enjoys playing music and punning. Tags: education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!) |
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The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence Google Tech Talks September 2, 2008 ABSTRACT We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and if all sensory clues are eliminated. And people's intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The commonest kind of non-local interaction mental influence occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring. Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation. Speaker: Rupert Sheldrake Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D. is a biologist and author of more than 75 technical papers and ten books, the most recent being The Sense of Being Stared At. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently Director of the Perrott-Warrick project, funded from Trinity College Cambridge. Tags: education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!) |
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Issues and Experiences in Designing Real-time Collaborative Editing Systems Google Tech Talks November 17, 2008 ABSTRACT Real-time collaborative editing systems allow physically dispersed users to work on shared text/hypertext/graphics/multimedia documents at the same time over the Internet. This class of systems have been known to pose multifaceted research and engineering challenges at the intersection of computer-supported cooperative work, distributed systems and algorithms, and software engineering. In this talk, I will reflect on our experiences on the core issues of algorithms design (Operational Transformation) for consistency maintenance and group undo in a multi-user editing environment, and system development for collaborative text editors, office productivity suites, to digital media design tools, spanning the past 15 years. Drawing on the observation that collaboration and conventional editing features are orthogonal and could (and should) be separately dealt with, I will present a new promising approach to building collaborative editing systems where advanced features for collaboration can be seamlessly integrated with a new or existing single-user application without modifying its source code. This new approach is powered by the GCE-TA technology: the Generic Collaboration Engine (GCE) encapsulates a comprehensive set of generic collaboration techniques and algorithms in a single reusable software package, while the Transparent Adaptation (TA) approach consists of a system architecture and a set of bridging techniques to integrate the GCE with single-user applications. This approach has the advantage of significantly reducing the complexity of collaborative system design and implementation, and at the same time, affords users with mature and familiar interface features directly inherited from single-user applications. I will talk about our on going efforts in using the GCE-TA technology to build desktop and web-based collaborative editing systems and illustrate the viability of this approach by demonstrating two systems - CoWord (a real-time collaborative word processor transparently adapted from MS Word, http://cooffice.ntu.edu.sg) and CoMaya (a real-time collaborative 3D digital media design tool transparently adapted from Autodesk Maya). Speaker: Chengzheng Sun Chengzheng Sun is a full Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Since 1994, Dr Sun has led and acted as the chief designer of a number of well-known collaborative editing projects, including REDUCE, CoOffice, CoOpenOffice, CoMaya etc., which have made important contributions to the theory and practical implementation of collaborative editing systems. Prof Sun obtained a PhD in computer engineering from National University of Defense Technology, China in 1987, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1992. From 1988 to 1993, he worked as a researcher and a senior software engineer in Philips Research Labs Eindhoven and the ACE software company in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, participated in a number of distributed system projects. From May 1993 and June 2005, he worked as a professor and Chair of Internet Computing (since 1999) at Griffith University, Australia. His current research lies at the intersections of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), distributed systems and computer communication networks, human-computer interaction, and software engineering. Dr Sun has published extensively and delivered seminars and tutorials on collaborative editing techniques widely at major international conferences, universities, and industrial research institutes/labs. Tags: education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks 1 Downloads - Last from: http://downthisvideo.com/ (Your Blog here!) |
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Self-Organization: The Secret Sauce for Improving your Scrum team Google Tech Talks September 4, 2008 ABSTRACT High performance depends on the self-organizing capability of teams. Understanding how this works and how to avoid destroying self-organization is a challenge. Until you understand complex adaptive systems and how Toyota works it is difficult to improve team velocity. Jeff will discuss three core topics: 1. Shock therapy as a strategy for booting up teams. 2. The Cosmic Stopping Problem, otherwise known as the choice uncertainty principle. 3. Punctuated equilibrium - how software systems evolve Take advantage of these concepts and you may find a way to achieve the ultimate potential of a team. This session will be a "Deep Agile" presentation keying off topics presented to engineers at MIT. Speaker: Jeff Sutherland Dr. Jeff Sutherland is one of the co-creators of the Scrum software development process. He and Ken Schwaber invented Scrum in 1993. Since then he has worked with many software companies and IT organizations to extend and enhance this process. For more info please Google Jeff or visit his web site. Tags: education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!) |
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"Science and the taboo of psi" with Dean Radin Google Tech Talks January, 16 2008 ABSTRACT Do telepathy, clairvoyance and other "psi" abilities exist? The majority of the general population believes that they do, and yet fewer than one percent of mainstream academic institutions have any faculty known for their interest in these frequently reported experiences. Why is a topic of enduring and widespread interest met with such resounding silence in academia? The answer is not due to a lack of scientific evidence, or even to a lack of scientific interest, but rather involves a taboo. I will discuss the nature of this taboo, some of the empirical evidence and critical responses, and speculate on the implications. Speaker: Dean Radin Dean Radin is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and four-time former President of the Parapsychological Association. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a masters degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs and GTE Labs, mainly on human factors of advanced telecommunications products and services, and held appointments at Princeton University, Edinburgh University, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, SRI International, Interval Research Corporation, and Boundary Institute. At these facilities he was engaged in basic research on exceptional human capacities, principally psi phenomena. Tags: education, engedu, google, googletechtalks, talk, talks, techtalk, techtalks 1 Downloads - Last from: (Your Blog here!) |
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