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DARPA Director, Dr. Regina E. Dugan talks at UCLA, IA40
Today was the Internet Anniversary celebration at its birthplace, UCLA. This celebratory event was co-organized by Brad Fidler. Read his press release here. There were several great ones, (see them), but here is DARPA director, Dr. Regina E. Dugan's talk.
She speaks of: women of science are going to save the day & changing the image of science ('we're smokin' hot. so that is progress, real progress'); challenges; iconic discovery; going viral; networking; these being serious times that require the best of all of us. And best, in my opinion, we need the wonder. A History of Science perspective: this.is.gold. The call-to-serve article she cites is attached.
Ignite NYC Open Hack
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds for a total of 5 minutes? Ignite NYC Open Hack brought together some of New York's brightest and funniest speakers to deliver a series of 5-minute talks that truly lit up the historic Hudson Theatre.
Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer
via ted.com
Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he plans to find them with a supercomputer that models all the brain's 100,000,000,000,000 synapses.
Julian Treasure: The 4 ways sound affects us
via ted.com
Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices.
Great list of all the latest TED talks
- Philosopher Alain de Botton describes a gentler notion of success
- Britain's prime minister Gordon Brown says it's time we adopted a global ethic
- 89-year-old maverick Elaine Morgan on the aquatic ape theory of human origins
- Novelist Chimamanda Adichie ponders the danger of 'a single story'
- Neuroscientist Beau Lotto shows incredible optical illusions - and what they mean
- Photographer Taryn Simon takes us inside secret labs, nuclear reactors and CIA facilities
- Jonathan Zittrain on how the web promotes surprising acts of generosity
- William Kamkwamba reveals how the windmill he hand-built as a boy has changed his life
- Willard Wigan explains how he makes sculptures that fit inside the eye of a needle.
- Dan Pink punctures the notion that financial incentives promote creativity
- Musician Imogen Heap performs a gorgeous new song self-accompanied on piano
- James Balog uses time lapse photography to spectacularly depict vanishing glaciers
- Tim Brown says we're not thinking big enough about design
- Charismatic architect Bjarke Ingels gives a thrilling tour of his recent work
- Former child soldier Emmanuel Jal brings the audience to its feet with his rap for peace
- Eric Giler demos the enticing arrival of wireless electricity
- Rebecca Saxe brilliantly depicts the brain science behind moral imagination
- Carolyn Steel on how food has shaped the design of cities
- Economist Paul Romer says Guantanamo could be the next Hong Kong
- Inventor Michael Pritchard conjures pure water from sewage -- live on stage
- Ad man Rory Sutherland on real vs perceived value (posted today! funny!)
