Senator Obama addresses the members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference in St. Louis, MO.

Senator Obama addresses the members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference in St. Louis, MO. less

Washington, D.C. June 28, 2008

Washington, D.C. June 28, 2008 less

Tom Waits Press Conference 2008 http://www.tomwaits.com http://www.antilabelblog.com

Tom Waits Press Conference 2008 http://www.tomwaits.com http://www.antilabelblog.com less

Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google engEDU September 8th, 2006 Presenters: Harry Robinson, Dan North, Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Christine Newman, Andrin von Rechenberg, Ade Oshineye, Timur Hairullin, James Richardson, James Lyndsay, Jordan Dea-Mattson, Curtis "Ovid" Poe

Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC) Google engEDU September 8th, 2006 Presenters: Harry Robinson, Dan North, Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Christine Newman, Andrin von Rechenberg, Ade Oshineye, Timur Hairullin, James Richardson, James Lyndsay, Jordan Dea-Mattson, Curtis "Ovid" Poe less

Sketch from Not The 9 O'Clock News where Rowan Atkinson plays the Tory leader speaking about immigration

Sketch from Not The 9 O'Clock News where Rowan Atkinson plays the Tory leader speaking about immigration less

http://www.FreeScienceLectures.com The most known people who participated in the conference were Ervin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Auguste... more

http://www.FreeScienceLectures.com The most known people who participated in the conference were Ervin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Auguste Piccard, Paul Dirac, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein and others. The film opens with quick shots of Erwin Schrodinger and Niels Bohr. Auguste Piccard of the University of Brussels follows and then the camera re-focuses on Schrodinger and Bohr. Schrodinger who developed wave mechanics never agreed with Bohr on quantum mechanics. Solvay gave Heisenberg an opportunity to discuss his new uncertainty principle theory. Max Born's statistical interpretation of the wave function ended determinism in atomic world. These men - Bohr, Heisenberg, Kramers, Dirac and Born together with Born represent the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. Louis de Broglie wrote his dissertation on the wave nature of matter which Schrodinger used as basis for wave mechanics. Albert Einstein whose famous response to Born's statistical interpretation of wave function was "God does not play dice." Twenty-nine physicists, the main quantum theorists of the day, came together to discuss the topic "Electrons and Photons". Seventeen of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Following is a "home movie" shot by Irving Langmuir, (the 1932 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry). It captures 2 minutes of an intermission in the proceedings. Twenty-one of the 29 attendees are on the film. --- It's Never too Late to Study: http://www.FreeScienceLectures.com --- Notice: This video is copyright by its respectful owners. The website address on the video does not mean anything. --- less

Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, didn't/couldn't talk about the charges they face after an ad campaign gone awry in Boston. Instead, they talk about hair through the ages...

Peter Berdovsky, 27, and Sean Stevens, 28, didn't/couldn't talk about the charges they face after an ad campaign gone awry in Boston. Instead, they talk about hair through the ages... less

Barack Obama met with 15 of the country's democratic governor's to discuss the economy on June 20, 2008.

Barack Obama met with 15 of the country's democratic governor's to discuss the economy on June 20, 2008. less

Thank you for participating in the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon.

Thank you for participating in the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon. less

Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT IGlobal online services at Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, or Google serve millions of customers with tens of... more

Google Tech Talks June 14, 2008 ABSTRACT IGlobal online services at Amazon, eBay, Myspace, YouTube, or Google serve millions of customers with tens of thousands of servers located throughout the world. At this scale, components fail continuously and it is difficult to maintain a consistent state while hiding failures from the application. Peer-to-peer protocols provide availability by replicating services among peers, but they are mostly limited to write-once/read-many data sharing. To extend them beyond the typical file sharing, the support of fast transactions on distributed hash tables (DHTs) is an important yet missing feature. We will present a distributed key/value store based on a DHT that supports consistent writes. Our system comprises three layers: - a DHT layer for scalable, reliable access to replicated data, - a transaction layer to ensure data consistency in the face of concurrent write operations, - an application layer with an extremely high access rate. For the application layer, we selected a distributed, scalable Wiki with full transaction support. We will show that our Wiki outperforms the public Wikipedia in terms of served page requests per second and we will discuss how the development of the distributed code benefited from the use of Erlang. This is joint work of Zuse Institute Berlin and onScale solutions GmbH. Speaker: Thorsten Schuett, Zuse Institute Berlin Thorsten Schütt is a senior researcher with the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) and a co-founder of onScale solutions GmbH. He received a CS diploma with distinction in 2002 from the Technical University Berlin. Since then he works as a research staff member in the Computer Science Research Department at ZIB and participates in several EU projects like GridLab, XtreemOS and Selfman. He is the principal system architect of the scalable, transactional key/value store at ZIB. His research interests include distributed data management, scalable grid systems, p2p algorithms and self-managing transactional storage systems. Slides for this talk are available at http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-scalability-conference less