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Google Tech Talks
May, 15 2008

ABSTRACT

Ken Ingham, Ph.D. will describe the architecture and motivation behind the
development of Amazability, Inc.’s Adept1 product. The Adept1 performs
natural language analysis and interprets spoken words and phrases or typed
input. It accepts and interprets verbal commands and responds with high
quality speech. The Adept1 is equipped with voice recognition and
text-to-speech output that dynamically adapts multilingual spoken output to
context. The Adept1 offers such applications as word processing, email,
address book, web browsing, and access to an online library of thousands of
books. These applications along with others have been developed from the
ground up to work with speech and have a common command language throughout.
They can be employed using ordinary speech or typed words and sentences.
Thus the product represents a foundation for implementing practical natural
language transaction processing where simple English phrases and sentences
are interpreted to command a sequence of complex operations. While the
Company’s founders are offering a vehicle that can be used as a full
programmer’s workstation, the operating system is hidden with all
applications designed to be used by person’s with minimal or no technical
background. The Adept1 will be demonstrated and a roadmap for future
applications will be given.

This talk will be taped.

Speaker: Ken Ingham, Ph.D.

Duration : 0:57:21

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Google Tech Talks
November, 2 2007

ABSTRACT

Does Web 2.0 represent a triumph of the wisdom of crowds, or the tyranny of mediocrity? The truth–as truths often do–may fall somewhere in the middle. New tools have indeed allowed access to new ideas, voices, and expertise. But at the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. In education, the shift from "the sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" has been underway for quite some time. The same shift is happening on the web. Experts aren’t disappearing, but their roles are changing. How can tools and infrastructure best support this shift in the role of expertise and authority?

Speaker: Elizabeth Lane Lawley
Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an ociate professor of Information Technology. Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing technologies such as weblogs, wikis, online games, lightweight online presence, and collaborative information retrieval.

Before she became a technology professor, Liz was a librarian–with an MLS from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama. She has worked for publishing companies, software companies, and even the Library of Congre…

Duration : 0:57:42

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A module from Dawah course by Dr Abu Ameenah Bilal philips, for a complete course with audio-video presentation visit at

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Islamic Online University is the online version of the Islaamic Studies Academy’s accredited BAIS program, which is the only accredited BAIS program of studies available on the internet. It consists of two facets:

1. A series of free short courses like the Da’wah Training Course which will be on topics of immediate and practical relevance and benefit to the students. It will also introduce students who wish to pursue an accredited BA in Islamic Studies to the methodology of the BAIS program, as a free trial run.

2. The other facet will be the full-fledged formally accredited Islamic Studies (Usool Ad-Deen) Degree Program in English (BAIS). Course Material will consist of written material of the basic text being taught plus Audio and Video Lectures of classes conducted in the ISA-Doha, or elsewhere

Dr. Philips was born in 1947 in Jamaica, but grew up in Canada, where he converted to Islam in 1972. He completed a diploma in Arabic language and a B.A. degree in 1979 from the College of Islamic Disciplines at the Islamic University of Madinah, an Islamic university in Saudi Arabia. At the University of Riyadh College of Education he completed his M.A. in Islamic Theology in 1985, and in 1994 he completed his Ph.D in Islamic Theology in the department of Islamic studies at the University of Wales. He later taught Islamic education and Arabic language in private schools in Riyadh for over ten years. Because of his opposition to Saudi Arabia’s position in the Gulf War, he had to leave the country and for three years he lectured M.Ed. students in the Islamic Studies department of Shariff Kabunsuan Islamic University in Cotobato City, Mindanao, the Philippines.

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Google Tech Talks
October 29, 2008

ABSTRACT

For six years, I have worked on learning quality predictors from NASA data. Based on that experimence, this talk offers the following lessons from the trenches:

1) Real world data collection is more like ambulance chasing that bus driving. The old DoD model of rigorous process control just breaks down in the modern era of distributed software development. Rather than lament lack of formal process, we should adapt our learning methods to handle the idiosyncrasies of our data.

2) Accuracy, correlation and precision and not accurate or precise and may not correlate with any decision making process. This is especially true for data sets where only a small percentage of the data contains the target concept.

3) Static code attributes are a wide and shallow well- easy to get to the bottom, very hard to get much further. Our learners may have learned all they can learn from these attributes.

4) The only way up is sideways. My data miners have struck a performance ceiling and the only way up is to change the performance target.

5) The performance ceiling is very close- we can exploit that. Rather than large-scale automatic methods, it may be more productive to explore human-in-the-loop interactive learning strategies.

6) We can talk, but will they listen? Many times, I have found a clear signal in a software engineering data set. Clearly, our learners are good enough to assist managers in the difficult task of managing software projects. Sadly, all too often, some management edict is applied that effectively ends that project (e.g. collection of that data source is terminated). I offer some speculations on this peculiar effect.

References:

* “Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect Predictors” by T. Menzies and B. Turhan and A. Bener and G. Gay and B. Cukic and Y. Jiang. Proceedings of PROMISE 2008 Workshop (ICSE) 2008 . Available from http://menzies.us/pdf/08ceiling.pdf .

* “Learning Better IVV Practices” by T. Menzies and M. Benson and K. Costello and C. Moats and M. Northey and J. Richarson. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering March 2008 . Available from http://menzies.us/pdf/07ivv.pdf .

* Data Mining Static Code Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors” by Tim Menzies and Jeremy Greenwald and Art Frank. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering January 2007 . Available from http://menzies.us/pdf/06learnPredict.pdf .

* “Problems with Precision” by Tim Menzies and Alex Dekhtyar and Justin Distefano and Jeremy Greenwald. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering September 2007 . http://menzies.us/pdf/07precision.pdf .

* “Finding the Right Data for Software Cost Modeling” by Zhihao Chen and Tim Menzies and Dan Port and Barry Boehm. IEEE Software Nov 2005 . http://menzies.us/pdf/05chen.pdf

Speaker: Tim Menzies
Dr. Tim Menzies (tim@menzies.us) has been working on advanced modeling and AI since 1986. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and is the author of over 170 refereeed papers.

A former research chair for NASA, Dr. Menzies is now a associate professor at the West Virginia University’s Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Duration : 0:53:10

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Eli Noam: Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia. He is the Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information. CITI is a university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. In addition to leading CITI’s research activities, Noam initiated the MBA concentration in the Management of Media, Communications, and Information at the Business School and the Virtual Institute of Information, an independent, web-based research facility.
Besides the over 400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited about 25 books. For a complete list of articles and publications by Eli Noam, please visit his complete curriculum vitae. Present Positions: Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School; 1976-present Director, Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information; 1983-1987, 1991-present Education:
Harvard: A.B. 1970 (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Laude thesis); A.M. 1972; J.D. 1975;
Ph.D. Economics, 1975, Dissertation adviser: Martin Feldstein. Honorary Doctorate, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 2004
Other Academic Positions: Columbia Law School Visiting Professor, Princeton University Economics Department
& Woodrow Wilson School 1975-1976.
Virtual Visiting Professor at University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. 1998-2000.
Selected Goverment Service: Comissioner, New York State Public Service Commission. 1987-1990.President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2003- Selected Government Boards: General Services Administration, FTS-2000 Network Selection
IRS, Tax Information Systems Modernization
National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Computer Laboratory.
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners, Technology Committee; National Regulatory Research Institute
National Academy of Science, Committee on Future of Broadband Communications, (Report:, “Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits”) Commission on the Status of Women in Computing Governor’s Task Force on New Media and the Internet, New York State
Boards and Advisory Boards (selective):
Electronic Privacy Infromation Center (EPIC)
European Institute on the Media France Telecom Scientific Advisory Board Intek Corporation Trustee, Jones International University (online college) Minority Media Telecommunications Council Oxford Internet Institute Editorial Boards: The Communications Review Communications and Strategies Information Law Series.
International Journal on Media Management
Law and Society Review (past). New Media.
Telecommunications Policy. Telematics.
Transborder Data Report. Trends in Communications (co-editor) Utility Policy.
Books (authored, edited and co-edited):
Telecommunications Regulation: Today and Tomorrow. Harcourt, 1982. Video Media Competition: Regulation, Economics, and Technology. Columbia,

Eli Noam: Eli M. Noam
Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Eli Noam has been Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School since 1976. In 1990, after having served for three years as Commissioner with the New York State Public Service Commission, he returned to Columbia.

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MicrobeWorld Video 14 — HIV/AIDS Education

In this episode of MicrobeWorld Video we ask some leading researchers, education specialists, and public health officials about the state of HIV/AIDS education in America and ideas they have to support the teaching of microbial evolution using the latest HIV/AIDS research — all while instilling innovative prevention strategies.

Filmed at a forum for educators on February, 11, 2008 at the Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C. and at San Diego State University, this episode features the following experts:

Roland Wolkowicz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, whose research focus is on the use of random peptide libraries and other chemical genetics approaches for the study of viral pathogenesis and the search of antiviral factors in HIV1 and HCV.

Shannon Lee Hader, M.D., MPH, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration for Washington, D.C., an epidemiologist and public health physician who has worked with HIV-infected children and adults in Brazil, Jamaica, and Zimbabwe.

Anila Asghar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University, whose research focuses on curriculum development and evolution.

Educational resources mentioned within the video can be found online at:

Koshland Science Museum
http://koshlandscience.org/teachers/webquest.jsp

NIH Curriculum Guide
http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/Diseases/default.htm

Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

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Duration : 0:6:17

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Art Hammon is a busy man and he knew that he needed an online doctoral program that would allow him to travel on the road and not miss class. He found University of Phoenix’s Doctor of Management program and he liked that the program focused on management leadership, unlike other programs he researched. Once Art started the Doctor of Management program, his laptop became his classroom. He was able to travel with his job and still earn his doctoral degree online. Discover the other online doctoral degree programs at University of Phoenix http://www.phoenix.edu/doctoral

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Dr. Sheila Lewis describes how she understands what students at TUI University go through because she was a student at TUI.

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Heavyweight boxing champion, Wladimir Klitscko, takes time to speak to youth about the value of education. Having received a PHd himself, he is an international star that thows a knockout message to inspire youth.

To learn more about Youth of Honor, visit us online at www.youthofhonor.org

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