Google TechTalks is a series of on-going presentations by invited speakers, sponsored by Google and given at the Google headquarters at Mountain View, California. Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online The Googleplex is the Company headquarters for Google Inc, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, They cover a variety of topics, from the technical to the more abstract, and include both established and speculative theories and technology.

In March 2006, Google announced that videos of the talks would be available online for free viewing on Google Video. Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video service from Google that allows anyone to upload Video Clips to Google's web ^{[1] [2]} Most are now put on YouTube before they are put on Google Videos. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees Several talks have made it to slashdot, Digg, and other aggregation sites. Slashdot, often abbreviated as /, is a technology-related news Website owned by SourceForge Inc Digg is a Website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories and voting and commenting on submitted ^{[3] [4]}

In addition to Google TechTalks, there are also many "@ Google" talks given, including Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, Women@Google, etc. Many of these talks are also available on Google Videos and YouTube.

Talks

Over a thousand people have presented talks at Google. A few of these people are the following:

• Robert Bussard spoke on the Polywell IEC fusion reactor on Nov. Robert W Bussard ( August 11 1928 &ndash October 6 2007) was an American Physicist who worked primarily in Nuclear The polywell is a plasma confinement concept that combines elements of Inertial electrostatic confinement and Magnetic confinement fusion, intended 9, 2006[1]
• Van Jacobson spoke on computer networking on Aug. Van Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack which is the technological foundation of today’s Internet Computer networking is the Engineering Discipline concerned with communication between Computer systems or devices Networking routers 30, 2006[2]
• Vinod Khosla spoke on the use of biofuels on Mar. Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Pune, India) is an Indian-American Venture capitalist. 29, 2006[3]
• Douglas Lenat spoke on artificial intelligence on May 30, 2006[4]
• Eric Lerner spoke on the dense plasma focus fusion reactor on Oct. Douglas B Lenat (born in 1950 is the CEO of Cycorp Inc of Austin Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in Artificial intelligence, Eric J Lerner is a Popular science writer independent plasma researcher and an advocate of Plasma cosmology, a Nonstandard cosmology. 3, 2007[5]
• Andrew Morton spoke on the state of the Linux kernel on May 1, 2007[6]
• Mark Shuttleworth spoke on Ubuntu Linux on Nov. Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel Linux is an operating system kernel used by a family of Unix-like Operating systems These are popularly termed Linux operating systems and Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African Entrepreneur who was the second self-funded Space tourist and Ubuntu Kubuntu Edubuntu Xubuntu Gobuntu --> Ubuntu 9, 2006[7]
• Sebastian Thrun spoke on winning the DARPA Grand Challenge on Aug 2, 2006[8]
• Linus Torvalds spoke on Git (software)[9]
• Guido van Rossum spoke on Python (programming language) on Jul. Sebastian Thrun (born 1967 in Solingen, Germany) is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Artificial The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for Driverless cars sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA the most prominent research Linus Benedict Torvalds ( ˈtuːrvalds born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer Git is a free Distributed revision control, or software Source code management project with an emphasis on being fast Guido van Rossum is a Dutch Computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. Python is a general-purpose High-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability 21, 2006[10]
• Barry Schwartz spoke on The Paradox of Choice [11]
• Luis von Ahn spoke on human computation on Jul. Barry Schwartz (born 1946 is an American Psychologist. Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and social action at Swarthmore The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less is a 2004 book by Barry Schwartz. Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph In Computer science, human-based computation is a technique when a computational process performs its function via Outsourcing certain steps to humans (Kosorukoff 26, 2006[12]
• Simon Willison spoke on OpenID on June 25, 2007 [13]

References

External links

• Google
• Google TechTalks on YouTube
• "@ Google" talks available on YouTube (Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, etc. )
• Google TechTalks
• Search Google Video for TechTalks

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