A short talk on computer science enrollment trends with Mehran Sahami, associate chairman of undergraduate education at Stanford University.
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Mehran Sahami is the associate chairman of undergraduate education. What does that mean? He runs probably the most important computer science undergraduate department in the world. This is the department that gave birth to Google, after all (and a bunch of other companies). This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for me to sit down and learn about the latest in computer education trends and what’s happening inside Stanford University’s computer science department.
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Mike Montemerlo is the artificial intelligence guy on Stanford University’s DARPA challenge team. Basically, they are building a robotic car that’ll be able to negotiate a course without humans being involved. He also thinks about the act of driving in a much different way than you or I do. This is a fascinating discussion where he talks about the car, the sensors used, the algorithms he’s developing, and the approach he’s using to get a car through an intersection at the same time as another robotic car is there.
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Here, you can see how Visible Technologies makes it possible for big enterprises to follow and participate in online conversations about them. Blake Cahill, VP of Marketing, and Miles Ward, practice lead, community intelligence, of Visible Technologies, gives us a tour and tells us about Visible Technologies.
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Here, Joseph Smarr, Plaxo’s architect, and John McCrea, VP of marketing, introduce me to Plaxo’s new offices, talk about a new feature, to be released on Wednesday, which is an “online identity aggregator,” and explain how it works and why you’ll want to try it out.
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ZenZui has a new “zoomable” UI for mobile phones that’s quite unique and fun to use. Come along as John SanGiovanni, co-founder and VP of products and services at ZenZui, tells me about his company’s plans and shows me how to use ZenZui to get around your mobile phone in a new way.
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Are you a director who wants to overlay your commentary on top of your video? Sort of like when you get a DVD? Or, are you a critic that wants to point out mistakes in the film? Now you can, with Overcast Media. Here, Rich Staokley, founder and CEO, shows off what his system can do.
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WetPaint is my favorite Wiki service. A Wiki is a page where a group of people can collaboratively work together to update the page. Sign in, click “edit” and away you go. But there’s a lot more to WetPaint than just that, and CEO Ben Elowitz gives us a tour.
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On Sunday, at the HP Garage, we met Joe Hewitt, the author of Facebook’s iPhone application. We just had a short chat with him, mostly to say thanks for building a cool app. There’s a longer audio conversation with Joe on TechCrunch today.
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I’ve lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and, while I’ve been to the HP Garage several times, I’ve never gotten to actually visit it. HP was gracious enough to open the garage for me and a few of my friends who have added me as a Facebook friend and we visit the garage where Anna Mancini, HP’s Corporate Archivist, gives us a talk about the role this little garage played in the tech industry’s development.
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