Tech Presentations

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.

I’ve made some significant improvements to the wiki:

First of all, I added Semantic Forms extension and created data entry forms for:

• Presentations
• conferences
• conference series

and I’m going to add more forms (e.g. for entering people, companies, topics and etc.).

Note that if you use “Add conference” form on Conference Series page, new page gets pre-populated with last conference available to allow quick editing (it might be confusing though unless you enter many conferences as I do). Also, notice that some fields, e.g. conference names and so on, have pre-population based on available pages.

A lot of thanks to Yaron Koren, developer of Semantic Forms, for listening to my wishes and implementing many of them.

Also I wrote SlideShare.net widget and added this as a form field so please if you find a slides for the talk on SlideShare, add them as well. You can see how it works on OpenID Bottcamp tutorial by David Recordon and Simon Willison.

I added inline Google Video widget and flv player some time ago, but never had time to announce it.

I hope all these improvements will help you help me in populating the site ;)

Some stats: 81 presentations, 142 conferences (including historical ones, e.g. DEFCON 1 from 1993), 36 people pages, 15 companies.