- -: TEDxPhilly - Youngjin Yoo - A city as a computing platform
December 21, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Youngjin Yoo's challenge to technologists: let's re-imagine cities as computing platforms. Yoo believes cities are the most exciting, complex and compelling human-made objects. As digital citizens, we have the opportunity to change the future of our cities; we can utilize new technologies to addr...
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- -: Archive.org: Every Book in the World at Your Fingertips
December 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/11/30/Brewster_Kahle_Universal_Access_to_All_Knowledge Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, discusses their mission to digitize all the world's books. He explains that in addition to making the books available online, they've also built bookmobi...
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- -: TEDxVorobyovy-Gory - Vladimir Surdin - Encyclopedia of human knowledge for us and for "them"
April 10, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Vladimir Surdin PhD in physics and mathematics thinks that it is crucial to create encyclopedia of human knowledge. Therefore a footprint of our civilization will be remain In case of disaster. CD, USB... now there are new technologies allowing mankind to keep essential information safe. TEDxVor...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Mark A. Jones and Jacqueline Sutherland - Vision for ICT opportunities in Jamaica.
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jacqueline Sutherland is the Founder & CEO of Global Gateway Solutions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Math/Computer Science from Howard University, Wash, DC; Master of Science Telecommunications and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Sutherland ...
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- -: TEDxBinghamtonUniversity - Richard Lee - Communication: What Revolution?
April 14, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Professor Lee is an extensively published professor who focuses on global changes in knowledge structures, including the closing gap between the "hard sciences" and the humanities. His insights on the modern world and the long term social change that has brought us to where we find ourselves toda...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Amilcar Sanatan-You Can't Handle the Truth
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Amilcar Sanatan speaks on the issue of youth and culture within Trinidad and Tobago. How the truth and acceptance of oneself affects how we live. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design -- hence...
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- -: TEDxCairo - Haytham Elfadeel - When Machines Think!
August 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Haytham El Fadeel Egyptian Young Researcher explains the Knowledge Technology through his search engine that competes google.com which is Kngine.com.
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- -: Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data
March 13, 2009 (about 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together. TEDTalks is a daily video ...
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- -: Beau Lotto: Optical illusions show how we see
October 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's really out there. TEDTalks is a daily vi...
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- -: David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
August 23, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut -- and it may ...
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