Google TechTalks June 7, 2006 Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google's user experience team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google's many products. A founding member of Google's UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous ...

Google Tech Talks January 17, 2007 ABSTRACT Kai-Fu Lee, Greater China President, visited the Seattle area Google office on January, 17, 2007 to talk about the current development of our offices in China. He spoke about the challenges and opportunities facing Google China as well as collaboration between the Seattle/Kirkland and China offices. Cr...

Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book. His newest book, All Marketers are Liars , has already made the Amazon Top 100 and has inspired its own blog. Seth is also a renowned speaker, and was recently chosen as one of "21 Speakers for the N...

Google Tech Talks July 15, 2008 ABSTRACT Google is the Web's premier creator of user-friendly Web 2.0 applications, and we have long viewed it as part of our mission to do for users in the long tail (AKA users with special needs) what we've achieved for the mainstream user see this Google I/O talk entitled Design Patterns for Enhanced Accessibili...

James D. Watson, Nobel Laureate and Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, describes the years leading up to his 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, for which he won the Nobel Prize with Drs. Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins (1962). Dr. Watson explains that the key to uncovering the causes of brain disorders such as schizophrenia, depres...

Google Tech Talks December 21, 2006 ABSTRACT Three talks about Joomla! and the Google Summer of Code project. Credits: Speaker:Angela Byron, Speaker:Laurens Vandeput, Speaker:Hannes Papenberg

I've represented Google at many events for women in engineering, and I'm always asked the same thing: "What's it like to work there?" I certainly don't mind discussing the subject, but I often think it would be great if more people could see it for themselves. Well, now you can. We invite you to take a sneak peek inside Google and hear straight fro...

Google TechTalks May 31, 2006 Narayanan Shivakumar Shivakumar is a Google Distinguished Entrepreneur. Earlier, he was a Director of Engineering responsible for many of Google's advertising products and Google Search Appliances. Before Google, he cofounded Gigabeat ('99), a startup in the online music space, and later acquired by Napster. He gradu...

Google Tech Talks June 19, 2008 ABSTRACT While visiting Chicago for Yet Another Perl Conference, Larry Wall will be visiting the Chicago Google office to speak about the conference, the language, and the community. Speaker: Larry Wall

Collaboration Specialist, Chris Iremonger demonstrates Google Apps Education Edition.

Jeff Keltner discusses Google Apps Education Edition, Google's hosted communication and collaboration tools for schools.

NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell spoke at Google on March 16, 2006. Mitchell has reported on politics for over 30 years, covering all the presidents from Carter through George W. Bush. She has done exclusive interviews with both the famous and infamous including Fidel Castro, sat in on high-level negotiations in the ...

In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not re...

Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT Analytics Into Action Analytics according to Captain Kirk - The original Star Trek series explains many of the principles of analytics and the necessary tools for understanding visitor motivations, segments and website analysis. By looking deeper into the trekkie phenomenon, analysts can better understa...

Get an inside look at what it is like to work in the Google London Office. http://www.google.com/jobs/youtubevideovig

John Battelle, co-founding editor of Wired and founder of The Industry Standard visits the Google New York office to speak about his book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (12/7/05). This video is part of the Authors@Google series. Credits: Speaker:John Battelle, Host:Google NYC

R. Glen Hubbard, author of "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System", gives a talk with Hal Varian at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. This video is part of the Authors@Google series. Credits: Speaker:R. Glenn Hubbard, Speaker:Hal Varian

For such a diminutive (4' 11") frame, character actor Leslie Jordan has a tall propensity for scene-stealing. He hails from the South, as his dead-giveaway drawl quickly exposes, and was raised in a highly conservative, deeply religious atmosphere in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Army, was killed in a plane crash...

Upon graduating from Harvard Business School, Maddy, born in Liberia and educated in Britain and the U.S., relocates to Tanzania to execute a start-up business providing telephone service. With the excitement attendant to starting a new company and the soul-searching of a young woman on a mission, Maddy brings personal experience and a different pe...

"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable No...

Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary, tells Google the ten things she wishes people knew about dictionaries, how people go about making new words, and how lexicographers use Google. Erin McKean has wanted to be a lexicographer since she was eight years old. She has a BA and an MA in Linguistics from the Univ...

Nutritionist Amyjo Johnson speaks to Googlers about organinc farming.

Wendy Spero is an actress, comedian, and writer who has performed on Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, and the Food Network. Her one woman show, "Microthrills", won "Best Solo Show" at the ECNY awards. Her most recent solo show, "Who's Your Daddy?", which premiered at The NY International Fringe Festival in August 2003, had a year long run at the Upright C...

Google Tech Talks January 19, 2007 ABSTRACT Mike Pinkerton will discuss the past, present and future of Camino development, along with lessons learned from Mozilla and the open source community. Credits: Speaker:Mike Pinkerton

A candid conversation with Larry Brilliant about pandemic bird flu, the risks we face, the uncertainties, and to talk about the accuracy and inaccuracies in the mass media. Keywords: Health, Bird Flu, Avian, Google.org, Sensationalism

Presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google

Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP of Product Management at Google, Inc. and graduate of Claremont McKenna College ('83), addresses CMC students and faculty at the Marion Miner Cook Athenaeum on February 27, 2008.

Maggie Johnson discusses Google's Code for Educators project.

Jeff Huber discusses Google's role in higher education.

Secret and hidden places at Google Earth