 | A Brief Introduction to Computational Problems in... Google TechTalks March 13, 2006 Daniel G. Brown (Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) ABSTRACT Haplotype inference is a field that results from a technological limitation: it is expensive to separate the paternal and maternal chromosomes of an organism. However, being able to do so would be useful, particuarly when one tries to identify genetic variations partly responsible for common diseases. Haplotype inference is the computation problem of inferring these different chromosome sequences, by optimizing some combinatorial or statistical requirement. What makes haplotype inference attractive to computer scientists is that one can very quickly abstract away many... |
 | The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World Google Tech Talks April 5, 2007 ABSTRACT For the past 50 years, people have begun to recognize that advanced technology and material abundance do not provide meaning in their lives. This talk discusses how spiritual practice provides the balance needed to live a life of understanding and harmony. Before retiring from the corporate, high-tech world in 1990, Les Kaye worked at IBM for over 30 years, as an engineer, salesman, manager, and software developer. In the mid-sixties, while working and raising a family, he started to practice Zen Buddhism. He was ordained as a Zen monk in 1970 and was recognized as a Zen teacher in 1986. Today he is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View.... |
 | Hating the Spiritual Teacher and Enlightened Master http://www.siddhayatan.org http://www.yogeeshashram.org http://www.askacharyashree.com Talk on: Why we turn against a spiritual teacher Dr. Acharya Yogeesh It is human nature why we turn against the spiritual teacher. Human nature doesn't want to hear the truth. History shows that we kill great speakers of truth. When Socrates spoke, they poisoned him. When Mahavir spoke the truth, they stoned him. Buddha's Chief Disciple tried to kill Buddha, and of course Jesus was crucified for trying to speak the truth. Buddha and Mahavir at least taught for over 30 years speaking truth. Socrates maybe over 50. Jesus only had 2 years to speak and teach truth. In more recent history, Ghandi was assassinated for spreading the concepts of Love and Non-Violence. Our history shows we kill spiritual teachers. We crucify them. As a result, we are lost without them. Jesus had a lot of wisdom, but most of his teachings are lost, and then the church compiles whats left of his wisdom into one book called the New Testament. Imagine if Jesus' teachings and his wisdom were protected? Imagine if he wasn't crucified? Society will be completely different. What's unfortunate are the religions that have only one book to represent their beliefs. They live as if the Bible, Quran is a Holy Constitution. Buddhists and Jains are lucky because they have many books. Those with one book try to fight with each other. You cannot convert the whole world to Christianity or Islam with one book! We need volumes of teachings in order to learn. We suffer for the loss. So we must learn now. Let us not repeat the same mistakes in the past of turning against spiritual teachers. We must respect the spiritual teacher. We must respect the truth speaker. We have tendency to respect and honor dead teachers. What needs to happen is respect the living spiritual teacher, the living spiritual guru. We will become big losers if we don't learn from our mistakes. Great Enlightened Spiritual Masters were killed in the past. The world has suffered enough. Begin now to search for the real spiritual speaker, spiritual teacher. Begin to respect him or her. *tags* spiritual, spiritual gifts, spiritual comments, spiritual criticism, responding to youtube comments, spiritual healing, spirituality, science mysticism spirituality, native American spirituality, woman spirituality, definition of spirituality, religion and spirituality, native spirituality, hindu spirituality, spiritual meditation, spiritual criticizing, spiritual teacher, spiritual guru, spiritual master, enlightened master, self realized master, self realized teacher, enlightenment, self realization, Samadhi, spirituality history, spirituality leaders, celtic spirituality, spirituality in marriage, new age spirituality, practical spirituality, aura in spirituality, spirituality and philosophy, define spirituality, spirituality faq, definition of spirituality, what is spirituality, jain, mahavir, mahaveer, Buddha, Buddhist, Buddhism, spiritual person, spiritual youth, spiritual children, spiritual baby, spiritual teacher, swamis, temples, vedic temple, spiritual teacher, enlightenment, the enlightenment, age of enlightenment, association for research enlightenment, enlightenment, enlightening, enlightenment teacher, enlightenment guru, enlightenment spiritual teacher, enlightenment period. jesus, buddha, mahaveer, mahavir, guru, kill, history |
 | Authors@Google: Lama Surya Das In "Buddha Is as Buddha Does", national bestselling author Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost American Buddhist teachers, offers a thorough, tried-and-true map to the richest treasure a human being can find--Buddha's advice for living to your true potential. Appropriate for new seekers as well as experienced practitioners, and accompanied by lively anecdotes and practical exercises, this is one of the most accessible books to date on the ancient and timeless wisdom of the Buddha. Lama Surya Das, whom His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls the American Lama, has spent more than thirty-five years studying with the great spiritual masters of Asia, eight of them in a cloistered Tibetan retreat and fifteen years in the Himalayas. He is the founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers, a leading spokesman for Buddhism and contemporary spirituality, and has often been featured in the mainstream media. Further reading: http://www.surya.org. This event took place August 21, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA. |
 | What Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and... Google Tech Talks July 10, 2007 ABSTRACT This talk discusses recent trends in security, and what every engineer needs to know to prevent the most significant emerging threats such as cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks. Just as every engineer might use object-oriented design principles to achieve extensibility and re-usability, every engineer needs to employ principles such as the principle of least privilege, fail-safe stance, and protecting against the weakest link to achieve security. Instead of focusing on "tips" and "tricks" that allow you to "band-aid" the security of your systems, we discuss how to derive defenses based on the application of security principles, such that you... |
 | How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And... Google Tech Talks January 25, 2007 ABSTRACT Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful. These people can silently poison the atmosphere of a happy developer community. Come learn how to identify these people and peacefully de-fuse them before they derail your project. Told through a series of (often amusing) real-life anecdotes and experiences. Credits: Speaker:Ben Collins-Sussman, Speaker:Brian Fitzpatrick |
 | Searching For Evil Google Tech Talks August 23, 2007 ABSTRACT Computer security has recently imported a lot of ideas from economics, psychology and sociology, leading to fresh insights and new tools. I will describe one thread of research that draws together techniques from fields as diverse as signals intelligence and sociology to search for artificial communities. Evildoers online divide roughly into two categories - those who don't want their websites to be found, such as phishermen, and those who do. The latter category runs from fake escrow sites through dodgy stores to postmodern Ponzi schemes. A few of them buy ads, but many set up fake communities in the hope of having victims driven to their sites for... |
 | Leveraging India As India Stands Up Google TechTalks May 25, 2006 Ashok Jhunjhunwala Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras. ABSTRACT Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala has significant expertise in incubating technology to make a difference for the masses in India. Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at Indian Institute of Technology... |
 | There are People in our Computers! Google TechTalks August 1, 2006 David Wolber (http://cs.usfca.edu/~wolber) is a professor at the University of San Francisco. His interests include collaborative research systems, e-politics, and service learning within computer science. ABSTRACT Peoplicious is a collaborative research tool. Unlike systems such as del.icio.us, people are first-class data objects, along with documents. Users can create people, provide structured information about people (image, homepage, blog feed, delicious name, etc.), and create lists of people (people-tagging). Users can also bookmark documents and associate documents with people (personmarks). Any user can enter information about any person. Peoplicious is... |
 | Toward the First Revolution in the Mind Sciences Google TechTalks August 8, 2006 B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. has been a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970. He is currently seeking ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices and Western science to advance the study of the mind. He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies ( http://sbinstitute.com ). ABSTRACT Galileo took a seminal role in launching the first revolution in the physical sciences, and a key element in this revolution was the rigorous, sophisticated observation of physical phenomena. Darwin likewise launched a revolution in the life sciences on the basis of decades of meticulous observation of biological phenomena. Although... |
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