Google Tech Talks
Do you know Google Tech Talks?
Google Tech Talks are talks held by various people at the Google site for the Google staff. Various people like professors, postgraduates, researchers, developers and even buddhists.
And what do those Googlers do? Friendly as they are they tape the whole thing and load the videos up to their video service. I recently watched a few of those TechTalks and was very impressed as the talks are sophisticated, entertaining and interesting at the same time. Just like a good university lecture should be.
And there are many of them: check out the Google Techtalk page (actually you just search for “tech talks google” at video.google.com).
Here’s a list of Tech Talks about different topics, just to give you an impression of how diverse the offer is:
- Stanford Experts on Climate Change and Carbon Trading
- Turning Email Upside Down: RSS/Email and IM2000
- django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines
- There are People in our Computers!
Some talks I personally watched and liked very much:
- Glimpse Inside a Metaverse: The Virtual World of Second Life A talk about the obviously ingenious game “Second Life”
- The Graphing Calculator Story The funniest story I have ever heard (in conjunction with IT): two guys who developed a graphing calculator software for Apple Computers, at Apple, without working for them and without Apple knowing that they did. Definetly worth a look!
- Gapminder.org A Techtalk about the Gapminder project. The Gapminder project tries to distribute global data. They identified a lack of representation tools for global data and are trying to fill that gap (in our minds). Because the data is what really matters if we want to get a picture of the world.
I found all Google Tech Talks I have watched so far to be very interesting, amusing and inspiring. I’ll advice you to check them out if you didn’t already.