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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- -: TEDxTalpiot - Etti Katz - Creating personal Symbols - English subtitles
July 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)In this first TEDxTalk in Hebrew, Etti Katz tells the story of how she discovered the power of of visual learning, and tools she has invented to assist children who are otherwise lost in the formal educational setting. About TEDx, x=independently organize event In the spirit of ideas worth spr...
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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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- -: TEDxRotterdam - Ilco van der Linde - Creating hard connections will lead the future
October 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)ILCO VAN DER LINDE - creating heart connections will lead the future Ilco van der Linde is founder and director of Dance4Life and the new international peace initiative Masterpeace. But thatís not all. Van der Linde is more than just a campaigner for world health and peace. He leads the future by...
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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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- -: Authors@Google: Temple Grandin
December 15, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Temple Grandin visits Google's Boulder, CO office to discuss her book "Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals." This event took place on December 2, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. Grandin (Animals in Translation), famed for her decades-long commitment to treating ...
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