TEDxKC -- Patrick Meier -- Changing The World, One Map At A Time
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Maps have always been a source of fascination and intrigue. Today's maps, however, can also help to save lives during disasters, document human rights abuses and monitor elections in countries under repressive rule. This presentation will explain how today's live maps can combine crowds and clouds to drive social change. Patrick Meier is Direct... Read more
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- -: TEDxKC -- Patrick Meier -- Changing The World, One Map At A Time
September 22, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Maps have always been a source of fascination and intrigue. Today's maps, however, can also help to save lives during disasters, document human rights abuses and monitor elections in countries under repressive rule. This presentation will explain how today's live maps can combine crowds and cloud...
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- -: Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
March 8, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. TEDTalks is a daily video po...
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- -: Multi-Texture Mapping Using the GPU
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks March 27, 2007 ABSTRACT Classical texture mapping involves associating a single texture map with each polygon of a 3D scene. The pixels in this map are rendered onto the projection of the polygon in the rendered image, for every image generated of the scene. Consequently, for ...
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- -: Mapping Global Inequality
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 2,2007 ABSTRACT ne of the great debates of our time concerns the gap between the rich and poor worlds and the influence of globalization on that gap. The UC Atlas of Global Inequality (http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu) mobilizes undergraduate and graduate students to research globa...
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- -: PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Josh Nesbit co-founded FrontlineSMS:Medic to bring the innovative use of mobile phones for healthcare to the developing world. A central clinic laptop runs FrontlineSMS software, enabling community health workers to use text messages to coordinate patient care, offer mobile diagnostics, and map h...
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- -: Laura Kurgan: Human Geographies
March 15, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Architect Laura Kurgan is the Co-Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University. Kurgan visualizes complex political and social data to advocate for social reform. One project, Million Dollar Blocks, shows how the government spends more than one million dollars to incarcera...
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- -: Assaf Biderman: Sentient Cities
April 28, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Assaf Biderman is the Associate Director of the SENSEable City Laboratory, an MIT university research group that explores the real-time city by studying how distributed technologies can be used to improve our understanding of cities and create a more sustainable ways of interacting in urban envir...
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- -: Laura Kurgan: Mapping Justice
June 14, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)At the PopTech Chicago 2010 Salon event, Laura Kurgan, director of the Spatial Information Design Lab, presents data illustrating the relationship between incarceration rates, financial expenditures, and neighborhoods-- block by block. This new perspective provides shocking insight into how to re...
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- -: Jake Porway's Data Without Borders
November 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What happens when ambitious and talented data scientists are connected with social organizations rife with data but lacking resources to do anything with it? Jake Porway's Data Without Borders helps bring these two groups together, using data in the service of humanity to design transformative vi...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Bernhard Seefeld - History and future of Mapping
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Google Maps is aiming to publish the world's most comprehensive map. Bernhard Seefeld will be talking about how this enterprise is evolving and is sharing his thoughts on who will be doing the mapping in the future and what is driving that. Bernhard Seefeld, Product Manager for Google Maps Bernh...
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