Google Tech TalksDecember, 18 2007How Stanford the CIA/NSA Built the Valley We Know TodayHow much does an average Googler know about the history of the placehe works in? Silicon Valley.Come and test your knowledge. I have seen this talk and I assure you -even seasoned Silicon Valleyveterans will find this story interesting. Silicon Valley entrepreneurSteve Blank will talk about howWorld War II set the stage for the creation and explosive growth ofSilicon Valley, and the role ofFrederick Terman and Stanford in working with government agencies(including the CIA and theNational Security Agency) to set up companies in this area thatsparked the creation of hundredsof other enterprises.Speaker: Steve BlankSteve Blank spent nearly 30 years as founder and executive of hightech companies in Silicon Valley,most recently the enterprise software firm E.piphany. He has beeninvolved in or co-founded eightSilicon Valley startups, ranging from semiconductors to video games,and personal computers tosupercomputers. He teaches entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's HaasSchool of Business,Columbia University and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering.
http://www.edge-online.com/blo s/video-the-uncanny-valleyThe fourth entry in my series of video "lectures," made in association with EDGE and game designer James Portnow. Format inspired by Zero Punctuation reviews. I can be reached at floydo_animation at yahoo dot com.
Google Tech TalksOctober 21, 2008ABSTRACTEmerging Ajax techniques--variously called Ajax Push, Comet, Reverse Ajax, and HTTP streaming--are bringing revolutionary changes to web application interactivity, moving the web into the Participation Age. Join us for a detailed introduction to the asynchronous web, covering the underlying protocols and APIs, the challenges for application servers, and the high-level techniques available to application developers. The techniques covered will allow you to add multiuser collaboration and notification features to your application, whether developed with Dojo, DWR, or ICEfaces, and whether deployed on Jetty, Tomcat, or GlassFish.Speaker: Ted GoddardSpeaker: Jean-Francois Arcand
Karl F. MacDorman presents on the uncanny valley at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference (June 6-9, 2007, Indianapolis), hosted by the Indiana University School of Informatics. The talk introduces the uncanny valley in animation and robotics and morphing experiments.
