TEDxDelft - Erik Meijer - Wisdom of the cloud
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Erik Meijer (1963) is a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software architect and leader of a cloud programmability team at Microsoft. TU Delft appointed him as the first cloud programming professor as of October 1, 2011. His research touches the field of cloud computing. Erik did his inaugural speech at TEDxDelft, in 18 minutes. In the spir... Read more
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- -: TEDxDelft - Erik Meijer - Wisdom of the cloud
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Erik Meijer (1963) is a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software architect and leader of a cloud programmability team at Microsoft. TU Delft appointed him as the first cloud programming professor as of October 1, 2011. His research touches the field of cloud computing. Erik did his inaugura...
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- -: TEDxDelft - TTYPP Iphone jam
December 12, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Max Kisman (animation), Peter Mertens and Donald Beekman (music) have a shared interest in TTYPP iPhone Jam project: creating instant animation and music with mobile devices. In 6 minutes they improvised sound, music and animation based on news, the performances at TEDxDelft and prior knowledge. ...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Progression stunts
December 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Progression stunts is the largest group of specialists in the field of parkour, freerun, acrobatics, tricking, stunts and handbalancing in the Netherlands. They appear in advertisements, demo's, stunt-doubling, television shows, movies and lots of other places. Progression stunts entered the "Hol...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Michiel van Haersma Buma - Building dikes is not always the answer
December 5, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What happens if you use the method of 'thinking the other way around' to find a solution to cope torrential rain, yearly flooding, and not enough public space to use standard simple measures in a beautiful ancient city like Delft? Is it possible to find possibilities and viable solutions to preve...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Kas Oosterhuis - We are changing your view on what is beautiful and what's not
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Kas Oosterhuis speaks about a new kind of building and about the way architecture will be influencing our understanding of what's beautiful and what is not. Kas was born in 1951 in Amersfoort (Netherlands), he studied architecture at the TU in Delft. Afterwards, he taught as unit master at the A...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Lodewijk van den Berg - How a crystal growth scientist became an astronaut
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Lodewijk van den Berg (1932) was the first Dutch-born astronaut, a fact that is often overlooked in the Netherlands because he was a naturalized American and no longer a Dutch citizen at the time of flight. Van den Berg and his colleagues designed the EG&G Vapor Crystal Growth System experiment...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Marcel Kampman - What would the dream school look like?
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Marcel Kampman is the founder of project dream school: an open invitation to anyone to share their ideas, thoughts and insights of what the dream school of today and tomorrow would be. What would it look like? what are the methods? What are the teachers? Is the dream school still a school? What i...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Sabine Roeser - Emotions should play an important role in debates on risky technology
December 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sabine Roeser aims to show that emotions should play an important role in debates about risky technologies, as emotions help us to understand ethical aspects of risk. Explicitly addressing concerns, worries but also enthousiasm about risky technologies can contribute to developing morally better ...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Bauke Steenhuisen - Poetry
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A summary more wise is poetry in disguise. Bauke Steenhuisen won the TEDxDelft Award competition. "The universal force of poetry is as stunning as its utter absence in any serious report. Consultants, organizations giving vent to plain ideas should be the first to try poetry. Reports can be con...
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- -: TEDxDelft - Tim Zaman - buy a balloon, put helium in it, attach a camera and let it go
November 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Tim Zaman is a 22 years old student Mechanical Engineering. He is mastering in Biorobotics at the Technical University in Delft. He's into camera's, software, finance, programming, electronics and working. In his spare time he sends balloons up in the air. Buy a balloon, put helium in. Attach a...
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