AtGoogleTalks
AtGoogleTalks (or @Google Talks or Talks@Google) is a series of presentations by invited speakers sponsored by Google given at various Google offices throughout the world. The series has feature categories such as Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, Women@Google, Musicians@Google and others. For technical topics, there is Google Tech Talks (also known as EngEDU[1]) which is dedicated to exploring areas of technology and science. Guest speakers range from present and past world leaders to little-known poets and artists. Talks range from about 40 to 70 minutes. As of February 2009[update] there had been over 1700 guest speakers.
In March 2006, Google announced that videos of the talks would be available on Google Video.[2][3] Most are now put on YouTube before they are put on Google Videos. Several talks are available from to slashdot, Digg, and other aggregation sites.[4][5]
Speakers include:
- Lady Gaga, musician
- Noam Chomsky, linguist and political commentator
- Salman Rushdie, author
- Slavoj Žižek, philosopher
- John Searle, philosopher
- Michael Kinsley, journalist
- Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist
- Christopher Hitchens, journalist
- Bob Woodward, journalist
- Muhammad Yunus, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Raphael Saadiq, musician
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, cartoonists
- Steve Kamb, author and personal trainer
- Brian Dunning, science writer and podcaster
- George R. R. Martin, author
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist
[edit] References
- ^ http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/02/17/top-10-google-tech-talks/
- ^ Google announcement of the videos being online
- ^ Thomas Claburn (June 20, 2007), Google Offers Tech Talks On Video, InformationWeek, http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199905550
- ^ "Should Google Go Nuclear? Posted 11-18-06". http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/18/0616205&tid=232. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "Haiku Tech Talk at Google a Success Posted 2-17-07". http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/17/1550218. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
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[edit] External links
- AtGoogleTalks, on YouTube (Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, etc.)
- Google Tech Talks, on YouTube.
- Google TechTalks, on Google Video.
- Search Google Video for TechTalks
- Google announcement of the videos being online
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