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Authors@Google: Paul Krugman

Pieter Tjia — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:19:21 +0000

In “The Conscience of a Liberal”, Paul Krugman, today’s most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a “new New Deal,” Krugman has created a work that weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.

Paul Krugman, who was named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, and the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 professional journal articles. In recognition of his work, he has received the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association, an award given every two years to the top economist under the age of 40. The Economist said he is “the most celebrated economist of his generation.”

This Authors@Google event took place December 14, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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Authors@Google: Joseph Stiglitz

Pieter Tjia — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:18:29 +0000

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz speaks about his book, “Making Globalization Work.” This event took place on October 13, 2006, at Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series.
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Authors@Google: Andy Wasif

Pieter Tjia — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:30:54 +0000

Andy Wasif visits Google to discuss his book “Red Sox University”. This event took place on June 26, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Boston-raised Andy Wasif earned a B.S. degree at Syracuse University. . . and he’s been doing that ever since. A recovering stand-up comedian, he is the co-author of “How to Talk to a Yankee Fan” and the sole creative force behind “Red Sox University.” He’s currently working on “Red Sox Fans are From Mars, Yankees Fans are From Uranus” (Triumph Books, spring 2010), while continuing to contribute blogs for “Sox and Pinstripes” and “Sports Fan Live.”

AtGoogleTalks

AtGoogleTalks (or @Google Talks or Talks@Google) is a series of on-going presentations by invited speakers, sponsored by Google and given at various Google offices throughout the world. The series has feature categories such as Authors@Google, Candidates@Google, Women@Google, Musicians@Google and others. For technical topics, there is Google Tech Talks (also known as EngEDU) which is dedicated to exploring areas of technology and science. Guest speakers range from the prestigious world leaders and ex-Presidents to the little-known poets and artists. Talks range from about 40 to 70 minutes. As of February 2009, almost two years since its inception, there had been over 1700 guest speakers.

In March 2006, Google announced that videos of the talks would be available online for free viewing on Google Video. Most are now put on YouTube before they are put on Google Videos. Several talks have made it to slashdot, Digg, and other aggregation sites.

People who have participated in AtGoogleTalks include:

* Noam Chomsky, linguist and political commentator
* Salman Rushdie, author
* Slavoj Žižek, philosopher
* John Searle, philosopher
* Michael Kinsley, journalist
* Steven Pinker, cognitive scientist
* Christopher Hitchens, journalist
* Bob Woodward, journalist
* Muhammad Yunus, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Raphael Saadiq, musician
* Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
* Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, cartoonists

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Authors@Google: Mike Kim

Pieter Tjia — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:30:52 +0000

Mike Kim visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the Worlds Most Repressive Country.” This event took place on June 26, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

The first of its kind, this book provides a rare and unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. Mike Kim, who worked with refugees on the Chinese border for four years, recounts their experiences of enduring famine, sex-trafficking, and torture, as well as the inspirational stories of those who overcame tremendous adversity to escape the repressive regime of their homeland and make new lives. One of the few Americans granted entry into the secretive Hermit Kingdom, Kim came to know the isolated country and its people intimately. His North Korean friends entrusted their secrets to him as they revealed the governments brainwashing tactics and confessed their true thoughts about the repressive regime that so rigidly controls their lives. Civilians and soldiers alike spoke of what North Koreans think of Americans and war with America. Children remembered the suffering they endured through the famine. Women and girls recalled their horrific sex-trafficking experiences. Former political prisoners shared their memories of beatings, torture, and executions in the gulags. With the permission of these courageous individuals, Kim now shares their stories and recounts his dramatic experiences leading North Koreans to asylum through the 6,000-mile modern-day underground railway through Asia. His unflinching narrative exposes the truth about North Korea, stripping away the last veils that still shroud this brutal dictatorship.

Mike Kim is the author of Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the Worlds Most Repressive Country. Mike is a Korean-American who, in 2003, moved to the China-North Korea border and founded Crossing Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to North Korean refugees. While living near the North Korean border, he operated undercover as a student of North Korean taekwondo, training under North Korean masters from Pyongyang. During his time in China, he learned of the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans fleeing to China through a 6,000-mile modern-day underground railroad in search of food and freedom. He has interviewed hundreds of North Koreans and in his book he recounts their experiences of famine, defection, sex-trafficking, and torture in gulags. Mike frequently appears in the media: He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on Larry Kane: Voice of Reason.

Authors@Google: Ellen and Julia Lupton

Pieter Tjia — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:20:46 +0000

Ellen and Julia Lupton visit Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss their book “Design Your Life.” This event took place on June 17, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Ellen and Julia Lupton are identical twins. They are co-authors of the new book “Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things” (St Martin’s Press, 2009). This illustrated talk will take a fresh, funny look at everything from housekeeping and entertaining to parenting and procrastination. Discover how design helps improve (and muddle) everyday situations, from pillows in the bedroom to computers in the kitchen. Find out why your bra doesn’t fit, why the living room refuses to disappear, how one-eyed Siamese bunnies are rebuilding civilization, and how roller luggage is threatening to destroy it. The Lupton twins live and work on the East and West Coasts, respectively; this talk will be their first opportunity to take the stage together to discuss their new book.
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Authors@Google: Robert Wright

Pieter Tjia — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:50:26 +0000

Journalist Robert Wright visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, “The Evolution of God.” This event took place on June 8, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google s…
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Authors@Google: Ray Kurzweil

Pieter Tjia — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:45:30 +0000

Ray Kurzweil visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One.” This event took place on July 1, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.

At the onset of the 21st century, it will be an era in which the very nature of what is means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy, and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. The paradigm shift rate is now doubling every decade, so the twenty-first century will see 20,000 years of progress at todays rate. Computation, communication, biological technologies (for example, DNA sequencing), brain scanning, knowledge of the human brain, and human knowledge in general are all accelerating at an even faster pace, generally doubling price-performance, capacity, and bandwidth every year. Three-dimensional molecular computing will provide the hardware for human-level “strong” AI well before 2030. The more important software insights will be gained in part from the reverse-engineering of the human brain, a process well under way. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents an inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are a billion times more intelligent…all within the next three to four decades.
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Authors@Google: Daniel Pipes

Pieter Tjia — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:43:31 +0000

The Authors@Google program welcomed Daniel Pipes to Google’s New York office to discuss his book, “The Threat to Israel’s Existence”. Daniel Pipes is one of the world’s foremost analysts on the Middle East and Islam and he is director of the Middle East Forum, a non-profit organization he founded in 1994 whose slogan is “Promoting American Interests”. His website, DanielPipes.org, is among the most accessed sources of specialized information on the Middle East and Islam. A graduate of Harvard University, with both a BA and PhD in history, he has been recognized as one of Harvard’s 100 most influential living graduates and is a Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He taught at many universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Chicago, the U.S. Naval War College and Pepperdine.

“Dr. Pipes is a prize-winning columnist, formerly for the New York Times syndicate and now writing independently for many newspapers. He is the author of 12 books and his writings have been translated into 33 languages. He has held two presidential positions in the U.S. government, testified before many congressional committees, and worked for five presidential campaigns – including serving as an advisor to Rudolph Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign.”

This event took place on May 28, 2009.
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Authors@Google: Salman Rushdie

Pieter Tjia — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:47:57 +0000

The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities, unknown to each other, at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the brilliant Akbar the Great wrestles daily with questions of belief, desire, and the treachery of his sons, and the equally sensual city of Florence during the High Renaissance, where Niccolò Machiavelli takes a starring role as he learns, the hard way, about the true brutality of power.

Salman Rushdie is the author of nine previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981 and, in 1993, was judged to be the “Booker of Bookers,” the best novel to have won that prize in its first twenty-five years) and The Satanic Verses (winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel). He is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and three works of nonfiction—Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and The Wizard of Oz. He is co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing.

This event took place on June 18, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.
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Authors@Google: Noam Chomsky

Pieter Tjia — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:15:49 +0000

For the past forty years Noam Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT and the author of numerous books including Chomsky vs. Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature, On Language, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, and Towards a New Cold War (all published by The New Press). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This event took place on April 22, 2008 at the Google Cambridge office, as a part of the Authors@Google series.
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