Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future
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In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had ...
Future customer trends, consumers, marketing, products and services for Siemens - by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon
Patrick Dixon has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 2005). How customer behavior will ... all » change. Why the future is about emotion. Why market research can give us wrong answers. Customers in emerging markets. Lifestyle / consumer trends. How to connect with passion. Impact of wild cards. Customer relationship management - winners and losers. Client event for Siemens.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Women@Google: Hillary Clinton
The Women@Google speaker series hosts 2008 Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton in conversation with Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Computer Pioneer Robert Kahn with Ed Feigenbaum
Robert Kahn is Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which provides funding for research and development of the U.S. National Information Infrastructure.
Shortly after graduating from university, Kahn took a leave of absence from MIT where he was an Assistant Professor to join the research firm Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). While there, he was responsible for the system design of the Arpanet, the first wide area packet-switched network. He was also a part of the BBN team developing the Interface Message Processor (IMP), a small computer that served as the Arpanet packet switch and standardized the network interface to all attached host computers.
In October 1972, he organized a demonstration of the Arpanet at the International Computer Communication Conference in Washington, D.C. He then moved to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and subsequently became Director of its Information Processing Techniques Office. Soon after arrival, he initiated the Internetting project to develop an open architecture for networking, ensuring that communications could occur in a network-independent manner.
While devising methods of ensuring reliable communications between such networks, he and Vint Cerf (CHM Fellow, 2000), developed the Internet architecture and basis for the TCP/IP protocol suite, first described publicly in May, 1974. Kahn later initiated the Strategic Computing Program, an effort to develop advanced hardware and software technologies.
Sergey Brin Speaks with UC Berkeley Class
Sergey Brin's views on search, Google, and life. This lecture is from the UC Berkeley course Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business with instructor Marti Hearst.
Keeping Up With The Human Genome
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The Human Genome Sequence was a big jump in scale for the then young bioinformatics ... all » field. Thirty times bigger than the worm genome that we were only just getting to grips with and with far greater numbers of interested users. The Ensembl project was started from scratch to handle this data: a system to store the data in an RDBMS; a pipeline to generate a pre-computed set of analysis; an API to provide both web and programmatic access. Ensembl evolves continuously: a new release is made every 2 months and in nearly every release the schema is updated to handle new data types. It now integrates more than thirty large genomes and provides researchers with a resource of >300Gb of data, all of which is free to download. The website alone generates >1million page impressions per week. However, with genome sequencing output per machine recently jumped 300 fold and costs having dropped 10 fold, with more drops promised, what Ensembl deals with now is tiny compared to what is to come.
Despite all this data, we are far from understanding our genome. Given the complexity of the system it is probably only feasible to tackle it as a huge global collaborative project, making data integration and exchange critical. One of the most significance features of the genome sequence is that it provides a framework to organize other biological information. However, there's a limit to how much can be usefully imported into a single database, especially as new resources spring up continuously and frequently are of unknown scientific value. The web has been constructed on links, however its hard to compare data unless it is easily aggregated. The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is essentially a system of standardized web services: each provider runs a DAS server; DAS clients can aggregate data from as many servers as they wish around a single coordinate system, i.e. a genome sequence. Ensembl is both a DAS server and DAS client. There are analogies with layering data on maps.google.com and google earth, except that here the servers of different layers are distributed. However visual integration is only a first step: the genome is too big for researchers to explore manually. We are going need to computational guide researchers to the most interesting areas of the genome.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Making Great Decisions
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The phrase "work smarter, not harder" has been repeatedly ridiculed in Dilbert and ... elsewhere, not because it is a poor idea, but because it is thrown like a brick lifesaver to drowning employees. It's like telling someone to be happier, healthier, and richer. What people need is a plan for doing so.
In "Making Great Decisions" the authors show readers how to achieve their objectives. They offer a better way to look at problems so that solutions are easier to find.
Speaker: David R. Henderson, Ph.D. David R. Henderson is an economics professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He was a senior economist with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers.
Speaker: Charles L. Hooper Charles L. Hooper is President and co-founder of Objective Insights, Inc., a consulting firm dedicated to providing health care companies with marketing and financial analysis to help them make informed decisions about their business opportunities.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
On Getting Creative Ideas
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Murray Gell-Mann is one of the largest living legends in physics. He's also been described ... all » as The Man With Five Brains, and it's no puzzle why: He was admitted to Yale at 15, got his PhD from MIT at 21, and is an international advisor on the environment. He speaks 13 languages fluently (at last count), and has expertise in such far-ranging fields as natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, bird-watching, depth psychology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems.
Oh yeah... he also coined the term "quark," after developing key aspects of the modern theory of quantum physics... for which he earned an unshared Nobel prize in physics in 1969. His ideas revolutionized the world's thinking on elementary particles. In this talk, he gives his thoughts "on getting creative ideas."
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann is a Distinguished Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, and author of the popular science book "The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex."
Besides being a Nobel laureate, Professor Gell-Mann has received the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Research Corporation Award, and the John J. Carty medal of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1988 he was listed on the United Nations Environmental Program Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (the Global 500). He also shared the 1989 Erice "Science For Peace" Prize. In 1994 he received an honorary Doctorate of Natural Resources from the University of Florida.
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