Tech Presentations

If you want to follow emerging technologies, you must take a look at presentation by Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon about opening social graph. These guys did make OpenID a reality, I hope they’ll succeed in adding more openness to user’s social data.

See on TechPresentations: Opening the Social Graph

Thanks to Alex Moskalyuk, I’ve added several presentations about scalability:

• System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets
• Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing
• YouTube Scalability
• Lessons In Building Scalable Systems
• Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets
• SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance
  
• VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture
• Lustre File System

Plus Marissa Mayer’s presentation Scaling Google for Every User which is more about user experience measurement and so on – not so much about technical scalability.

Thanks to Brad Fitzpatrick, here’s a new presentation about Seam Carving algorithm for Image re-targeting.

See on TechPresentations.org: Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing

Thanks to Alex Moskalyuk who posted a link to DEFCON 15 videos – first presentation video (with attack demo and presentation slides) is about attacking web applications that are used in US banking systems. Presented by Brendan O’Connor.

It’s ridiculous how bank’s security specialists are not familiar with web technologies. Brendan makes a good point – let consumer share the cost of hardware tockens, if it means better security, people will use them. Stop marginalizing the business that is about people’s money.

See it on TechPresentations.org: Greater Than 1. Defeating “Strong” Authentication in Web Applications (for Online Banking)

Update: Actual videos were posted by Carsten Cumbrowski AKA Roy/SAC. Here’s his blog entry.

I forgot to mention that I also added Call for papers functionality. If you post future conference, please include call for papers information.

This will help those of us who wants to talk at the conference / event – list of conferences with open CFP is available on Conferences page.