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

Rating: 4/5 Link1 Link2

• 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.

Guy Steele, Douglas Crockford, Josh Bloch, Alex Payne, Bruce Tate, and Ted Neward, Future of Programming Languages, Strange Loop, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link1 Link2

• Original air date: October 15, 2010.
• Running time: 45 minutes.
• Location: Strange Loop conference. St. Louis, MO.
• Panel moderated by Ted Neward and focused on the future of programming languages, language features, concurrency, and more.

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, C-SPAN, 2010

Rating: 4/5 Link

• Original air date: November 5, 2010.
• Running time: 46 minutes.
• Fed’s role during the financial crisis of 2008.

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

Rating: 4/5 Link

• 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.