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Date: Wednesday, 17 Mar 2010 15:36
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LOGICOMIX is about the quest for the foundations of mathematics in the beginning of the 20th century, the subtle ways in which its ultimate failure brought about the computer, and the curious fact that so many of its protagonists had serious brushes with insanity. My talk, in addition to introducing the book, will discuss Logic as one of the three intellectual currents which eventually brought us computation.
Christos Papadimitriou studied in Greece and at Princeton, and has taught at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCSD, and since 1996 at Berkeley, where he is the C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science. His research is about algorithms and complexity, and their applications to a variety of fields such as databases, optimization, AI and robotics, game theory and economics, and evolution. He has published several of the standard textbooks in Computer Science, and the novel "Turing: a novel about computation." He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Enginering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His graphic novel "Logicomix," with Apostolos Doxiadis, art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna, topped the New York Times bestseller list of the genre for 11 weeks upon its publication in the fall of 2009.
http://www.logicomix.com/en/ |
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Date: Tuesday, 16 Mar 2010 00:52
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For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. In Stripping Bare the Body, Danner brings together his best reporting from the worlds most troubled regions—from the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and finally to the disastrous invasion of Iraq and the radical, destructive legacy of the Bush administration.
At a time when American imperial power is in decline, there has never been a more compelling moment to read these urgent, fiercely intelligent reports.
Mark Danner will focus his talk on torture and where we are when it comes to extreme interrogation with the Obama Administration: why we haven't escaped Bush's "state of exception." |
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| Time: 01:08:36 | More in News & Politics |
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Date: Tuesday, 09 Mar 2010 00:21
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THE DECISION TREE stems from Goetz's unique experience as an editor at WIRED and as a student working on a Masters in Public Health. Goetz was struck by the unfortunate disconnect between the public health world and the tech world. Wasn't there was a way to combine the promise of technology with the rigor of public health in order to engage people more predictably, strategically, and effectively with their own health, he wondered? In the book, Goetz looks at the tools and technology available to us now from DNA analysis that can predict future health issues, to social networks that can keep us abreast of the latest treatments. Goetz balances the science and ideas in the book with stories of real people who are utilizing these tools allowing us to see the opportunities and possibilities in action. The Decision tree is an organizational system that maps out our options, factors in all relevant info (family history, our habits, conditions, etc), and guides us toward the best possible health care choices. A Decision Tree has the power to turn the chaos of medical science into a system that makes sense by prioritizing facts and evidence over instinct and tradition. It puts the patient in the central role as decision maker not the doctor, insurance company, or hospital administrators. |
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| Time: 44:02 | More in Science & Technology |
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Date: Saturday, 06 Mar 2010 01:22
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Despite our recent advances into the depths of space and the inner most-workings of the atom, some of the most often asked questions in science remain mysteries, even to the dedicated scientists committed to finding answers. Here, Michael Hanlon, the Science Editor for Britain?s Daily Mail, identifies ten such questions and explains why we find these problems so compelling, including:
How does time really work, and do we even understand it?
Am I the same person I was a minute ago, even as all the atoms in my body are being replaced?
What is the other 96% of the earth made of?
Does the paranormal exist?
Written with a profound understanding of the sciences involved, Hanlon manages to speak to readers with no particular knowledge of science but who are deeply inquisitive about the natural world. |
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| Time: 33:39 | More in People & Blogs |
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Date: Friday, 05 Mar 2010 16:59
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Cory Doctorow visits Google's Cambridge offices to discuss "Makers." |
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| Time: 57:05 | More in Science & Technology |
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Date: Thursday, 04 Mar 2010 23:41
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Vusi Mahlasela visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters. |
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| Time: 01:01:58 | More in Music |
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Date: Saturday, 27 Feb 2010 21:44
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Harold Jaffe visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "Anti-Twitter". This event took place on February 19, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series.
For a recent interview, see: http://bit.ly/a8N3Kd
These 50-word stories are based on found texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all who care to see.
Amidst an internet-driven content boom, meaning has virtually disappeared. Anti-Twitters extreme brevity demonstrates by example that brief need not = dumbed-down. Though the stories describe a wide arc: high and pop culture, intimate and public, sordid and exalted, all subjects are equally laid bare by Jaffes incisive stratagems.
What Are They Saying About Anti-Twitter ?
The ephemeral world-wide chatter of Twitter is here bathed in Harold Jaffe's insidious acid, as another current language is accosted, insulted through example, and rendered absurd. Comic, at times frightening, pathetic, often ridiculous, these 150 Anti-Twitters stand against common currency of the form, become a cultural document of their own, no less than the hum of the word's turnings. Once again Jaffe proves himself a master of subversion."
—Toby Olson, author of Tampico |
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Date: Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 19:25
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The @Google program welcomed Selly Thiam to Google's New York office to discuss her audio based oral history project "None on Record: Stories of Queer Africa (NOR)".
"In 2004, FannyAnn Eddy, an LGBT activist from Sierra Leone,West Africa was murdered in the offices of the Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association. The news of her murder circulated around the world and was a turning point for Selly Thiam, a Senegalese lesbian living in the United States. To honor the African QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) spirit that Fanny Ann embodied, she began collecting the oral histories of QLGBT Africans from the African Continent and in the Diaspora."
"None on Record: Stories of Queer Africas mission is to bring the stories of QLGBT (queer, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) Africans into the forefront of media and media-making. It is a web-based archive, a media-making production crew and community-building tool for the global African LGBT population. Here you will find:
• Stories from QLGBT Africans who have received refugee status or are seeking asylum in Canada, South Africa and the United States.
• Interviews from South Africas first openly gay music group, 3SUM, and Trans Playwright, Nick Mwaluko.
• Original, unpublished written works and visual art from QLGBT Africans showcasing how their experiences have shaped them emotionally, politically, socially, and culturally."
This event took place on February 11, 2010. |
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| Time: 32:40 | More in Nonprofits & Activism |
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Date: Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 00:14
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The seed was planted over a dinner shared between good friends Tom Corwin and author/journalist Peter Laufer with the idea of buying a classic bookmobile, stocking it with donated books from libraries and publishers, and driving it cross-country through small towns with acclaimed authors taking turns at the wheel. At each stop Corwin opens the bookmobiles doors inviting the public in to take their choice of digital and analog titles in exchange for an interview about what books have meant in their lives. A documentary film crew and a radio production team capture those stories, along with conversations with those authors along for the ride.
Peter Coyote and Jane Ganahl join Tom Corwin at the Googleplex to talk about the bookmobile project. |
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| Time: 43:39 | More in Education |
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Date: Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 22:53
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Emily Nagle Green visits Google's Cambridge, MA offices. |
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Date: Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 20:09
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Eve Ensler's newest work, I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, was released in book form by Villard/Random House on February 9. Made up of original monologues about and for girls, the book aims to inspire girls to take agency over their minds, bodies, hearts and curiosities. V-Day has developed a corresponding targeted pilot V-Girls program engaging young women in our "empowerment philanthropy" model, igniting their activism and giving them a voice.
I Am an Emotional Creature chronicles the stories inspired by girls around the globe. Girls today often find themselves in a struggle between remaining strong and true to themselves and conforming to society's expectations in an attempt to please. I Am an Emotional Creature is a celebration of the authentic voice inside every girl and an inspiring call to action for girls everywhere to speak up, follow their dreams, and become the women they were always meant to be.
Among the girls Ensler creates are an American who struggles with peer pressure in a suburban high school; an anorexic blogging as she eats less and less; a Masai girl from Kenya unwilling to endure female genital mutilation; a Bulgarian sex slave, no more than fifteen, a Chinese factory worker making Barbies; an Iranian student who is tricked into a nose job; a pregnant girl trying to decide if she should keep her baby.
It is through these varying voices and experiences that V-Day hopes to nurture the future activists of the world. I Am an Emotional Creature will be a vehicle to empower girls and inspire activism. In 2010, readings of the book will be staged in twenty pilot locations, where teen girls will engage in the creative process, accompanied by a specially written curriculum addressing the issues in the book.
Through the V-Girls Program and I Am an Emotional Creature, we can come to understand the universality of girls everywhere: their resiliency, their wildness, their pain, their fears, their secrets, and their triumphs. I Am an Emotional Creature is a call, a reckoning, an education, an act of empowerment for girls, and an illumination for parents and for us all.
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls will be a vehicle to empower girls and inspire activism. Through the newly created V-Girls program, young girls can participate in the V-Day movement. The goal of V-Girls will be to engage young women in our empowerment philanthropy model, giving them a platform to ignite their activism.
V-Day believes that girls are the future of our movement. Women are the primary resource of our planet. It is imperative to educate and nurture future activists so we can see our vision of a world free from violence against women and girls come true.
About V-Day - V-Day is a global activist movement shattering taboos, raising millions and transforming communities to end violence against women and girls. Annually, activists stage thousands of benefit productions of Founder/playwright Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and other works. Working at the intersection of art, social action and politics, V-Day empowers grassroots activists to become leaders, turning pain to power. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $70 million, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 11,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Egypt, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Pakistan and South Dakota. V-Day was named one of Worth magazine's "100 Best Charities" in 2001 and Marie Claire's Top Ten Charities in 2006. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina. http://www.vday.org |
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| Time: 53:35 | More in People & Blogs |
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Date: Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 07:42
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Fred Hertz visits Google's Mountain View campus to talk about Understanding Financial Issues for Same-Sex and Unmarried Straight Couples. This event took place on February 18, 2010, as part of the @Google series.
Frederick Hertz speaks and writes often on legal issues facing same-sex couples, and he has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, and NPR's Talk of the Nation. He is regularly quoted as an expert on same-sex dissolutions, and he has been featured in The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New York Observer, The Advocate and Out Magazine, among other publications. He was recently described in The Advocate as "one of the nation's leading experts on lesbian and gay divorce." Frederick's books include: Making it Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership & Civil Unions; Legal Affairs: Essential Advice for Same-Sex Couples; Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples; and A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples.
Frederick graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1981, and has practiced in Oakland since 1990. |
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| Time: 54:27 | More in Education |
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Date: Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010 00:04
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Bob Gilbreath visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "The Next Evolution of Marketing: Connect with Your Customers by Marketing with Meaning". This event took place on December 8, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
THE NEW LAW OF MARKETING
The Next Evolution of Marketing is a true beacon for all brand builders. Many books claim that, Bobs book delivers.
Jim Stengel, former Global Marketing Officer, Procter & Gamble
Some timeless truths restored for modern marketing—and many new ones added. An inspiring reminder of the value of brand behavior and how to make it happen.
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP
Persuasion has given way to sharing, and marketing will never be the same.
John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young & Rubicam, and coauthor of The Brand Bubble
This book provides a framework and compelling examples for creating the next generation of cultureleading brands.
Mark Greatrex, Senior Vice President, Marketing Communications and Insights, The Coca-Cola Company
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The old interruptive model of marketing doesnt work. Customers are tuning out. They no longer listen to in-your-face messages. Instead, they demand meaning in the brands they buy and the marketing that reaches them.
Marketing strategist Bob Gilbreaths hot new concept, Marketing with Meaning, represents the next evolutionary step in a progression following direct marketing and permission marketing. This groundbreaking methodology engages customers and wins their business by adding value to their lives. Rather than pushing a product or service, Marketing with Meaning woos customers by offering them something of value independent of purchase.
In The Next Evolution of Marketing, Gilbreath unveils a revolutionary new approach to business that fills the gaping voids left in bottom lines when people started tuning out. Gilbreath describes the marketing revolution now underway and the powerful forces driving it. Inside, he provides Marketing with Meaning success stories, including:
Samsungs laptop and cell phone charging stations, which are now found in more than 50 airports throughout the United States
Doves Campaign for Real Beauty and its viral video Evolution, which has been viewed more than 100 million times
Burger Kings Xbox advergames, which helped boost the companys profits by 40 percent in one year
This first-ever comprehensive model for creating and managing a meaningful marketing campaign uses in-depth case studies of successful campaigns and explains how to develop and execute a solid strategy for meeting customers needs. It also arms you with an original set of metrics for precisely measuring the effectiveness of your initiatives.
You simply cannot afford to get left behind in advertisings golden age of interrupt, tell, and sell marketing. Marketing with Meaning is how your customers demand business be done today and tomorrow. The Next Evolution of Marketing is your guide to surviving and thriving in this marketing revolution. |
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| Time: 49:44 | More in Education |
Author: "AtGoogleTalks" Tags: "http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#vi..."
Date: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 21:58
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Hal Jaffe visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "Anti-Twitter". This event took place on February 19, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series.
These 50-word stories are based on found texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the true motives, fears and sins of our age are on display for all who care to see.
Amidst an internet-driven content boom, meaning has virtually disappeared. Anti-Twitters extreme brevity demonstrates by example that brief need not = dumbed-down. Though the stories describe a wide arc: high and pop culture, intimate and public, sordid and exalted, all subjects are equally laid bare by Jaffes incisive stratagems.
What Are They Saying About Anti-Twitter ?
The ephemeral world-wide chatter of Twitter is here bathed in Harold Jaffe's insidious acid, as another current language is accosted, insulted through example, and rendered absurd. Comic, at times frightening, pathetic, often ridiculous, these 150 Anti-Twitters stand against common currency of the form, become a cultural document of their own, no less than the hum of the word's turnings. Once again Jaffe proves himself a master of subversion."
—Toby Olson, author of Tampico |
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| Time: 50:39 | More in Entertainment |
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Date: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 16:56
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Fear is a mysterious force. It sabotages our ability to think clearly and can drive us to blind panic, yet it can also give us superhuman speed, strength, and powers of perception. Having baffled mankind for ages, fear is now yielding its secrets to scientific inquiry. The simple model of ?fight or flight?--that people respond to danger either by fleeing in terror or staying to fight through it--has been replaced by a more complex understanding of the fear response.
Veteran science journalist Jeff Wise delves into the latest research to produce an astonishing portrait of the brain?s hidden fear pathways. Wise, who writes the ?I'll Try Anything? column for Popular Mechanics, favors a hands-on approach, volunteering to jump out of an airplane while wearing sensors and to endure a four-hour simulated missile attack on a Navy destroyer. He returns with a tale that combines lucid explanations of brain dynamics with gripping, true-life stories of mortal danger: we watch a woman defend herself against a mountain lion attack in a remote canyon; we witness a couple desperately fighting to beat back an encircling wildfire; we see a pilot struggle to maintain control of his plane as its wing begins to detach. By understanding how and why these people responded the way they did, Wise argues, we can better arm ourselves against our own everyday fears.
Full of amazing characters and cutting-edge science, Extreme Fear is an original and absorbing narrative that will force you to reconsider the limits of human potential. |
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| Time: 51:56 | More in Science & Technology |
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Date: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 16:45
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Mick Flannery@Google-Dublin
In just over two years since he released his debut album 'Evening Train', Mick Flannery has become an Irish music sensation. His follow up album, 2008's 'White Lies', was voted one of the best Irish albums of all time by Hot Press magazine, drawing comparisons with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits. He was nominated for the prestigious Choice Album Awards, as well as winning 'Best Male' at the Meteor Music Awards, culminating in 2009 in sold out headline shows in the Marquee in Cork and 2 nights in Vicar St. |
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| Time: 34:34 | More in Music |
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Date: Tuesday, 23 Feb 2010 01:02
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Bill Barnes visits Google's Kirkland, WA offices to discuss his webcomic, Unshelved: http://www.unshelved.com/ |
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| Time: 51:50 | More in Film & Animation |
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Date: Monday, 22 Feb 2010 21:31
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Mumford and Sons performed music from their debut album, "Sigh No More" in their appearance at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters. This event took place on February 12, 2010, as part of the Musicians@Google series. |
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Date: Friday, 19 Feb 2010 21:44
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What sustains us in a time of panic? How do we survive disasters beyond our control? Bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni considers these timely questions in her compelling new novel, ONE AMAZING THING. Drawing on Divakaruni's personal experience of Hurricane Rita and inspired by literary works ranging from The Decameron to Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, ONE AMAZING THING explores what happens when people from different walks of life are trapped together are trapped by a violent earthquake.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's honors include an American Book Award, a PEN/Josephine Miles Award, two PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, and a Distinguished Author Award from the South Asian Literary Association. Her work has appeared in TheBest American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and a Pushcart Prize anthology. With the publication of her new novel, One Amazing Thing, Divakaruni is the author of sixteen books, two of which have been made into movies. A frequently sought-after op-ed commentator regarding South Asian-American culture, Divakaruni is the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston. |
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Date: Friday, 19 Feb 2010 17:25
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For the millions of people who identify as liberal Christians. In McLennan's bold call to reclaim ownership of Christianity, he advocates a sense of religion based not on doctrinal readings of scripture but on the humanity behind Christ's teachings. He addresses such topics as intelligent design, abortion, same sex marriage, war. torture and much, much more. As he says in the Preface, "We liberal Christians know in our hearts that there is much more to life than seems to meet the rational eye of atheists; yet we find it hard to support supernatural claims about religion that fly in the face of scientific evidence." |
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