TEDxGolfLinksPark - Anshuman Bapna
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Anshuman is the CEO & co-founder of mygola.com, a travel planning service. He co-founded and sold his first startup (RightHalf.com) while in undergrad at IIT Bombay, seeing it through the first boom & bust on the internet. After his MBA at Stanford, he spent some time selling solar lights in Vietnam and working with an Indian Member of Parliamen... Read more
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- -: TEDxGolfLinksPark - Anshuman Bapna
February 2, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Anshuman is the CEO & co-founder of mygola.com, a travel planning service. He co-founded and sold his first startup (RightHalf.com) while in undergrad at IIT Bombay, seeing it through the first boom & bust on the internet. After his MBA at Stanford, he spent some time selling solar lights in Viet...
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- -: TEDxKRP - Margarita Quihuis - Peace Innovation
April 28, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Inventing peace through technology and crowdsourcing efforts. Peace Innovation @ Stanford University http://www.stanfordpeaceinnovationlab.org Persuasive Technology Lab @ Stanford University http://captology.stanford.edu/
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- -: TEDxTampaBay Vineet Singal Miraculous Struggles
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Vineet Singal is a Stanford University student majoring in Biological Sciences. He is the founder and executive director of Anjna Patient Education, a non-profit organization that provides health education services to free clinics. Since its founding in January 2010, Anjna has received grants and...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - James Nash - Russell County Gorge
May 29, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Songs about war are timeless and a part of American culture. In this talk, James Nash reflects on how he came to write "Russell County Gorge" about US Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ryan McGlothlin, killed in Iraq in 2005. Over the course of two years traveling and performing the song, James found Ryan's s...
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- -: TEDxBayArea - June 2011 - Ben Dodson - Building Connections Between People and Devices
August 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)For years, researchers have envisioned a world where our devices work together seamlessly for a variety of tasks. While we are witnessing an explosion in the number of smart and connected devices all around us, there are still relatively few device-spanning applications that we use in our daily l...
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- -: Patricia Burchat: The search for dark energy and dark matter
August 25, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
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- -: Philip Zimbardo: Why ordinary people do evil ... or do good
September 23, 2008 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. Follow us on Twitter ...
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- -: Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car
March 31, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sebastian Thrun helped build Google's amazing driverless car, powered by a very personal quest to save lives and reduce traffic accidents. Jawdropping video shows the DARPA Challenge-winning car motoring through busy city traffic with no one behind the wheel, and dramatic test ...
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- -: Green@Google: Jane Woodward
March 13, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Jane Woodward visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss the energy landscape. This event took place on February 26, 2009, as part of the Green@Google series. How do we use energy? Why should we care about energy? How about a revolution? These three core questions form the foundat...
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- -: Authors@Google: Donald Knuth
March 17, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Professor Donald Knuth visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss the interactions between faith and science. This event took place on March 16, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. In the fall of 1999, Donald was invited to give six public lectures at MIT on the general s...
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