Google TechTalks

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. 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. [ [http://groups.google.com/group/google-friends/browse_thread/thread/2711ef5fe7d25570 Google announcement of the videos being online] ] [citation|url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199905550|title=Google Offers Tech Talks On Video|author=Thomas Claburn|publisher=InformationWeek|date=June 20, 2007] Most are now put on YouTube before they are put on Google Videos. Several talks have made it to slashdot, Digg, and other aggregation sites. [ cite web |url=http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/18/0616205&tid=232 |title=Should Google Go Nuclear? Posted 11-18-06 |accessdate=2008-05-14] [ cite web |url=http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/1550218 |title=Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success Posted 2-17-07 |accessdate=2008-05-14]

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. 9, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606]
*Van Jacobson spoke on computer networking on Aug. 30, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840]
*Vinod Khosla spoke on the use of biofuels on Mar. 29, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889128950913]
*Douglas Lenat spoke on artificial intelligence on May 30, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7704388615049492068]
*Eric Lerner spoke on the dense plasma focus fusion reactor on Oct. 3, 2007 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1518007279479871760]
*Andrew Morton spoke on the state of the Linux kernel on May 1, 2007 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257]
*Mark Shuttleworth spoke on Ubuntu Linux on Nov. 9, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2728972720932273543]
*Sebastian Thrun spoke on winning the DARPA Grand Challenge on Aug 2, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8594517128412883394]
*Linus Torvalds spoke on Git (software) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8]
*Guido van Rossum spoke on Python (programming language) on Jul. 21, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6459339159268485356]
*Barry Schwartz spoke on The Paradox of Choice [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200]
*Luis von Ahn spoke on human computation on Jul. 26, 2006 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143]
*Simon Willison spoke on OpenID on June 25, 2007 [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2288395847791059857&q=OpenID&ei=2RouSOTkOIyErgPyiriqCQ]

References

External links

* [http://www.google.com Google]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks Google TechTalks on YouTube]
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks "@ Google" talks available on YouTube] (Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, etc.)
* [http://video.google.com/googleplex.html Google TechTalks]
* [http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=techtalks Search Google Video for TechTalks]