Posts Tagged ‘talks’
Jill Tarter: Why the search for alien intelligence matters (TED Prize winner!)
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
The SETI Institute’s Jill Tarter makes her TED Prize wish: to accelerate our search for cosmic company. Using a growing array of radio telescopes, she and her team listen for patterns that may be a sign of intelligence elsewhere in the universe.
Link to this talk
David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under 3D, Art, Computers, Conceptual, Design, Music, Science, TED talks, life, web
MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables - cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
link to this TED talk / Devid Merrill’s Siftables project / Devid Merrill at MIT Media [...]
Marvin Minsky: Health, population and the human mind
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under AI, Science, TED talks, life
Marvin Minsky’s arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is-he-joking? advice. Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence — and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and [...]
Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Architecture, Art, Conceptual, Design, Photography, TED talks, life
Rockstar designer Stefan Sagmeister delivers a short, witty talk on life lessons, expressed through surprising modes of design.
In this talk graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy — and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness –- shut down one by one. An astonishing story.
Golan Levin: The truly soft side of software
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Art, Computers, Conceptual, Music, TED talks
Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions.
Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks
Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople’s terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones?
Brian Greene: The universe on a string
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Conceptual, Science, TED talks, life
Physicist Brian Greene explains superstring theory, the idea that minscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe.
Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. It is considered [...]
Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Science, TED talks, life
In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise of this field — to create tiny machines that assemble themselves.
David Griffin: Photography connects us with the world
Posted by Rudolf Getel | Filed under Art, Conceptual, Photography, TED talks, life
The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
