TEDxEutropolis - Edial Dekker - Rethinking sustainability in the digital age
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A short story on local economies and giving a shit. Edial Dekker studied New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He co-founded Hack de Overheid (Hack the Government) and actively contributed to Music Hack Day. Two playgrounds in two very different fields, both providing the ability and opportunity to create new forms of information and also m... Read more
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- -: TEDxEutropolis - Edial Dekker - Rethinking sustainability in the digital age
February 9, 2012 (about 12 years ago)A short story on local economies and giving a shit. Edial Dekker studied New Media at the University of Amsterdam. He co-founded Hack de Overheid (Hack the Government) and actively contributed to Music Hack Day. Two playgrounds in two very different fields, both providing the ability and opportu...
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- -: TEDxSanAntonio - Matthew Pirko - Cyber City USA-San Antonio's Invisible & Powerful Economic Weapon
December 28, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This Principal of JesRico Consulting, a cyber security consulting firm, argues that cyber security is essential for individuals and the economy - "Cyber City USA - San Antonio's Invisible and Powerful Economic Weapon." In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-orga...
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- -: TEDxSanAntonio - Bennie Lewis - Fluent in Three Months - Rapid Language Hacking
December 27, 2011 (over 12 years ago)This independent Irish Polyglot and author gets honest about overcoming his fear of learning new languages in his talk - "Fluent in Three Months? Rapid Language Hacking." In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to shar...
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- -: TEDxDublin - James Whelton - An Explosive Start
December 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Entrepreneur, Developer and Social Media Connoisseur, James Whelton lives and breathes for technology, business and problem solving. James is experienced in all areas of IT, from computer hacking to iOS development to Social Platform data parsing and analysis. James has appeared on Engadget, Wir...
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- -: TEDxColombo - Balachandran Gnanasekaraiyar - Can Hacking Be Ethical?
September 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)"Just call me Bala" is what he usually says the first time you meet him, and for a man who has travelled a lot, he would always say, "Sri Lanka can be a paradise on earth, but most of us don't realize that." Bala is currently serving as a Lecturer at the School of Computing, of Asia Pacific Insti...
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- -: Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!
September 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)http://www.ted.com Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several convicted coders from around the world and reaches a startling conclus...
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- -: TEDxBuffalo 2011 - Remy DeCausemaker - Open Data, Open Government, and the Open Source Way
October 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Remy DeCausemaker, Chief Architect of FOSS@RIT (http://foss.rit.edu/), explores the old-school, noble sense of the word "hacking," and illustrates the important tools that can be built with publicly available government data. From the TEDxBuffalo event held on Oct. 11, 2011, at the Montante Cultu...
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- -: Wordmaking: What it take to succeed in hacking English...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 17, 2007 ABSTRACT Earn the basics of word formation in English, get "raw materials" for new words, and invent your own word (and have it critiqued) before you let it loose into the English language. The maker of the "best new word" (as voted on by the participants) will w...
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- -: Hardware/Software Hacking: Joining the Real and the Virtual
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks July 31, 2007 ABSTRACT Software developers usually confine themselves to working entirely within the runtime environment of a computer just pushing around bits and pixels. Even virtual worlds such as Second Life exist only in the confines of our CPUs. On the other hand, hardw...
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- -: Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks January 27, 2006 William Softky http://www.softky.com/Bill/resume.html The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what...
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