Pamela Fox
Maps maven
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Pamela is the Developer Programs Engineer for the Google Maps API. For the last two years, she's enjoyed helping developers innovate with the JavaScript, Flash, and Static Maps APIs and combine them with many of Google's other amazing APIs like App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Google Spreadsheets API, and more.
Before that, Pamela graduated with her CS masters from USC, where she helped grow the video games department and dabbled in the 3d animation and linguistics departments.
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Client Killed the Server Star: The new client/server model
Most modern websites still place a large burden on the server, constantly sending it requests and asking it to do heavy computations. In the brave new world, the client is king and the server is its faithful shadow. In this talk, we'll look at how cutting-edge technology like Gears, HTML5, and Google App Engine can be used to create websites where the caching, storage, and computing is done primarily in the browser/desktop and the server is used merely as a backup store.