- -: Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity
November 12, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afgh...
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- -: David Christian: Big history
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is "Big History": an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of th...
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- -: Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"
May 2, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli P...
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- -: Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that
June 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performance...
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- -: Authors@Google: Daniel Solove
January 20, 2009 (over 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Daniel Solove to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet" From Ars Technica: "It's scarcely news that over the past decade, network technologies have been redrawing the boundaries of ...
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- -: Structuring Personal Information When Everything Can Be...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks May 17, 2006 William Jones William Jones is an Research Associate Professor in The Information School at the University of Washington where he manages the Keeping Found Things Found project (funded by the National Science Foundation , http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/index.asp...
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- -: Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using a...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks January 11, 2007 ABSTRACT Today's large-scale IR systems are not implemented using general-purpose database systems, as the latter tend to be significantly less efficient than custom-built IR engines. This talk demonstrates how recent developments in hardware-conscious databas...
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- -: Social Information Processing
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 20, 2007 ABSTRACT The label 'social media' has been attached to a quickly growing number of Web sites whose content is primarily user-driven. Examples of these sites include: blogs --- personal online journals that allow users to share their thoughts and receive feedback ...
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- -: Dasher: information-efficient text entry
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks April 19, 2007 ABSTRACT Keyboards are inefficient for two reasons: they do not exploit the redundancy in normal language; and they waste the fine analogue capabilities of the user's motor system (fingers and eyes, for example). I describe a system intended to rectify both thes...
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- -: On-Demand Information Extraction
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks August 23, 2007 ABSTRACT At present, adapting an Information Extraction system to new topics is an expensive and slow process, requiring some knowledge engineering for each new topic. We propose a new paradigm of Information Extraction which operates 'on demand' in response to...
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