Descripción:NYU professor William Easterly visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "The White Man's Burden." This event took on April 6, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Mark Penn speaks at Google about his book "Microtrends" on October 1, 2007. This event took place at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Valentino Achak Deng discusses the novel "What Is the What" by Dave Eggers as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on April 30, 2007 at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA, as part of the Authors@Google series. Additional information about Valentino can be found at http://www.valentinoachakdeng.com Other Valentino YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjqD3WWbs9s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opKRp9cO6m0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucSFeptlyk

Descripción:Author Chris Anderson visits Google to discuss his book, "The Long Tail" This event took place on July 18, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Atul Gawande discusses his latest book, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance." Dr. Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was named a MacArthur fellow in 2006. This event took place at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters on May 1, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Author Jacob Needleman visits Google to discuss his book, "Why Can't We Be Good?" This event took place on April 30, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Eve Ensler discusses "Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security Obsessed World" February 23, 2007.

Descripción:Simon Schama discusses hos book, "Rough Crossings," at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters. This event took place on April 14, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Max Barry visits Google headquarters to discuss his book, "Company" This event took place on January 11, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Author and chef Ann Cooper discusses her book "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children" as part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place Tuesday April 10, 2007, at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Descripción:Mark Plotkin visits Google to discuss his book, "Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets." This event took place on August 29, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Daniel H. Wilson visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his book, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising." This event took place on January 11, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Author Jane Smiley visits Google to discuss her book, "Ten Days in the Hills" This event took place on March 6, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Inc. Magazine editor Bo Burlingham discusses his book "Small Giants" at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters. This event took place as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Monique Maddy discusses her memoir, "Learning to Love Africa." This event took place at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters on March 14, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Andrea Mitchell discusses her memoir, "Talking Back," at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters. This event took place on March 16, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Adam Gopnik visits Google headquarters to discuss his book, "Through the Children's Gate" This event took place on January 11, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Lester Brown visits Google headquarters to discuss his book, "Plan B 2.0" This event took place on January 11, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Descripción:Google Tech Talks November 21, 2008 ABSTRACT Personal Growth Series: Cracking the Neural Code: Speaking the Language of the Brain with Optics The technological seeds of a Manhattan project-style scientific enterprise, the optical reverse-engineering of brain circuits to crack the neural code, have recently been planted at Stanford. The brain is a high-speed dynamical system consisting of different players that are intertwined and that cannot be separately controlled using conventional methods. For this reason, until recently we have not been able to speak the language of the brain (with millisecond timescale and cell-specific resolution), and in 1979 Francis Crick called for a technology by which all neurons of just one type could be controlled, "leaving the others more or less unaltered". Tools from the Deisseroth laboratory at Stanford over the past four years have responded to this challenge. These include optical technologies for controlling neural circuits, using precisely-targeted delivery of light energy of different colors that is captured by neurons using nanoscale protein-based antennae, resulting in controlled activity of just the targeted cell types with millisecond precision. Light is delivered by fiberoptics; while light encounters all cell types, only the desired cell type is light-sensitive and responds. Using different optogenetic probes, cells can be turned on or off with millisecond precision and in different combinations. These tools have now been used to optically deconstruct Parkinsonian neural circuitry, setting the stage both for cracking the neural codes of normal brain function, and for re-engineering neural circuits in disease. Speaker: Karl Deisseroth Professor Deisseroth received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1992, his PhD from Stanford in 1998, and his MD from Stanford in 2000. He completed medical internship and adult psychiatry residency at Stanford, and he was board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 2006. He joined the faculty on January 1, 2005. He is the first, and so far only, practicing psychiatrist in the nation with a primary appointment in a bioengineering department. As a bioengineer focused on neuroengineering, he has launched an effort to map neural circuit dynamics in neuropsychiatric disease, including depression and Parkinson's Disease, on the millisecond timescale. His group at Stanford has developed optical and stem-cell based neuroengineering technologies for noninvasive imaging and control of brain circuits, as they operate within living intact tissue. His work on optical control of neural circuits has launched a new field called "optogenetics", and he has published major papers in Nature and Science that have been termed "stunning" and "revolutionary" by his scientific colleagues. Professor Deisseroth has received many major awards including the NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE), the McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, the Larry Katz Prize in Neurobiology, the Schuetze Award in Neuroscience, the Whitehall Foundation Award, the Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science Award, the Klingenstein Fellowship Award and the Robert H. Ebert Clinical Scholar Award.

Descripción:2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul in discusion with Google executive Elliot Schrage as part of the company's Candidates@Google series.