TEDxUChicago 2011 - Thomas Frey - Communicating with the Future
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Thomas Frey is Google's top rated futurist speaker. As the Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, he develops original research studies that enable him to speak on uncommon topics. He founded the Institute after fifteen years at IBM, where he was honored with over 270 awards. He has been denoted the "Father of Invention... Read more
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Thomas Frey - Communicating with the Future
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Thomas Frey is Google's top rated futurist speaker. As the Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, he develops original research studies that enable him to speak on uncommon topics. He founded the Institute after fifteen years at IBM, where he was honored with over 270 aw...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Michael Strong - The Creation of Conscious Culture through Ed. Innovation
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Strong is the CEO and Chief Visionary Officer of FLOW, an organization dedicated to the nurturing and dissemination of entrepreneurial spirit as a force for good. Michael established a number of successful charter schools across the U.S. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socr...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Kevin Warwick - The Last Remaining Hurdles to Cyborg Technology
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Kevin Warwick is a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading in England. He has led groundbreaking experiments concerned with the linking of the human nervous system to computer systems. He also demonstrated the first successful instance of electronic communication between the nervous...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Rules of Engagement
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world's leading researchers in positive psychology. As the director of the Quality of Life Research Center, he specializes in research on psychological strengths of the human brain. He is known as the creator of the concept of 'flow', a satisfactory state of ...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Michael Wang - The Mind and the Mouth
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Wang is a second-year economics major in the college and a student musician and entrepreneur. He has been beatboxing for about three and a half years now, specializing in hip-hop, dubstep, and breakbeats. Determined to promote musical performance and collaboration at UChicago, he is estab...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Phinix Dance Crew - Dance to Inspire and Inspire to Dance
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)PhiNix Dance Crew aims to promote a stronger hip-hop dance community within our campus and the surrounding Hyde Park neighborhood. In the past year, we worked to foster an environment where dancers can express and push their creative talents by offering weekly workshops on many different aspects ...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Bruno Cabral - The Life of the Mind Lived Through Noise
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)At his young age, Bruno proved to be an expert in cognitive psychology by winning the TEDxUchicago Student Competition. Currently a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Chicago, Bruno has a wide array of intellectual interests that range from eschatological theology and futurology to cr...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Paul Sereno - Art in Science
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Paul Sereno is a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and the president and co-founder of Project Exploration. Paul Sereno teaches the world about its evolutionary past through what he calls "adventure with a purpose." His travels have brought him to discover important links in the evoluti...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Voices in Your Head - The Lives of the Mind
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Voices is a co-ed acapella group at the University of Chicago. Voices in Your Head's original track Boomerang has WON the 2011 Collegiate A Cappella Recording Award (CARA) in the category of Best Scholastic Original Song. Voices Only, selected has chosen "I'd Like To" as one of the 38 featured so...
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- -: TEDxUChicago 2011 - Jonathan Greenblatt - Revolutionizing the World Through Social Responsibility
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As a serial social entrepreneur Jonathan Greenblatt is the co-founder of Ethos Water and the former CEO of Good Magazine. Greenblatt participates on several corporate and nonprofit boards, including RESTORE Products, the African Leadership Foundation, KaBOOM!, and water.org. Creating a business t...
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