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Live: Google Keynote at SMX West in Santa Clara
March 3, 2010, 10:28 amGoogle’s director of research Peter Norvig is talking at SMX West at 9:15 AM PST / 12:15 PM EST, and I will be liveblogging it below. Watch the video live at our new site live.webpronews.com (it will also be available there archived later if you don't have time to watch it as it happens).
Liveblogging begins...
12:09 : Should start in a few minutes...please forgive any typos as they come :)
12:15 Danny Sullivan says keynote will be in just a moment.
12:16: Executive Editor of Search Engline Land Chris Sherman, Danny Sullivan, and Norvig on stage.
12:17: Norvig built shopping tool that became Yahoo Shopping...author...philosopher...world record holder (palindrome)...various introductory tidbits about Norvig....rocket scientist...performer (nutcracker performance)
12:21: Peter to show interesting things Google Research is working on...
12:22: 15 minutes for this portion, he says...after the chile earthquake, they put out a person finder, already did one for Haiti. took an hour to customize and get it out...ties in with earthquake data, after shocks..
powermeter, built by someone else, google built software that you can put in your house and monitor power you use each day. people can cut consumption by 20%...
Earth Engine - app that works over earth data and shows deforestation/rain forest...overlay for Google Earth...comes up with differentiation to see where deforestation occurs...
Street View - where no car has gone before - trike, snowmobile, up in Whistler and other spots.
User photos in street view...
12:24 Image Swirl - image recognition software...made it into regular search product. click "similar images" on any images...based on color/shape
web scale imaage annotations - taken set of images and queries that trigger images and match them up...dolphin/translations of dolphin...all words match same types of pictures....
annoyed by captchas...theyr'e getting harder and people make more mistakes....using imag rotation...rather than type in words, we'll show picture. you rotate it back to straight up. easy to do but difficult for computers...
Google Googles - app that runs on phone with camera. take a picture of landmark, business card (create contact), product, tells you what it is..
Video scene carving - you have a pic and you want to squish it down to smaller aspect ratio - done work where you can in one frame you can make things look better...
access to lots of data they'd like to share with academic community - jobs running in our clusters - here's list of jobs. how much memory they took, etc.
app inventor for android - introductory program devleopjment environment to teach people how to program on phones....phones more personal than PCs for younger users....more excited about doing it for the phone...
12:28Speech recognition...
Punctuation/capitalization - in transcribed speech -




