Computers versus Common Sense
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Google TechTalks May 30, 2006 Douglas Lenat Dr. Douglas Lenat is the President and CEO of Cycorp. Since 1984, he and his team have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying a broad real world knowledge base and reasoning engine, collectively "Cyc". Dr. Lenat was a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University and at St... Read more
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- -: Computers versus Common Sense
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks May 30, 2006 Douglas Lenat Dr. Douglas Lenat is the President and CEO of Cycorp. Since 1984, he and his team have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying a broad real world knowledge base and reasoning engine, collectively "Cyc". Dr. Lenat was a professor of comput...
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- -: TEDxLondon - Adam Roberts
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Adam Roberts is an experienced young campaigner, including in the UK Youth Parliament and as a representative to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. He is a trustee and director of the Children's Rights Alliance for England, has written for a textbook on human rights in the UK, and has s...
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- -: TEDxLondon - Carmel McConnell
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Carmel's background is a mixture of social activism and senior corporate roles. As a community campaigner she worked in the US and India before starting her own company to help large firms differentiate through values. While researching her first book, Change Activist, she became aware of the pr...
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- -: TEDxLondon - Dan Roberts
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dan Roberts has been teaching Science among other things for the last 9 years. He has held various positions of responsibility within secondary schools such as Head of Science in a Specialist Science school; Head of Sixth form and is currently Deputy Headteacher at Saltash.net Community School in...
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- -: TEDxLondon - Dougald Hine
November 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dougald is a writer, speaker and creator of organisations, projects and events. His work is driven by a desire to understand how we change things, and how things change, with or without us. This has taken him cross country through a range of fields, from social theory to the tech industry, litera...
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- -: Does Morality Need God?
December 30, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/07/The_Great_Issues_Forum_Varieties_of_Nonbelief Philosopher Colin McGinn and theologian Denys Turner discuss the question of whether atheism can coexist with a sense of morality. Both agree that morality exists independently of divinity. ----- Journal...
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- -: Joshua Foer: Using Memory to Prolong Your (Perceived) Life
June 10, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/14/Joshua_Foer_Moonwalking_with_Einstein "Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it," reads Joshua Foer from his book, Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, explaining that creating more worthwhile memories can lengt...
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