Jeffrey Dean, Building Software Systems at Google and Lessons Learned, Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, 2010

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• Original air date: Nov 10, 2010.
• Running time: 86 minutes.
• Location: Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Systems Colloquium (EE380), Stanford University, CA.
• Outlines Google’s hardware infrastructure, discuss the evolution of Google’s search and infrastructure software.
• Identifies some lessons learned in building these various systems, and highlights some interesting areas for future work.

Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics, LSE, 2009

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• Talks about the current financial crisis.
• The Return of Depression Economics Part 1: The sum of all fears (June 8, 2009)  – slides.
• The Return of Depression Economics Part 2: The eschatology of lost decades (June 9, 2009) – slides.
• The Return of Depression Economics Part 3: The night they reread Minsky (June 10, 2009) – slides.
• Running time: 90 minutes each.