David Kelly IDEO David Kelly: The future of design is human-centered on: TED Talks Low-key and thoughtful, IDEO founder David Kelley seems the antithesis of the 'design star' -- and indeed, he says that product design, within the past two decades, has become much less about the design and more about the user who'll be experiencing it. In this classic 2002 talk, he shares some video of products coming out of IDEO, including Prada's famous high-tech dressing rooms, 'Dilbert's ultimate cubicle,' and a gotta-have-it gadget called Spyfish. He finishes by discussing a project he's passionate about: ApproTEC -- now called KickStart -- offering designs that give Kenyans the means to end poverty.
Craig Mello University of Massachusetts Medical School RNAi and Development in C. Elegans on: Nobelprize.org Craig C. Mello held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2006, at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was presented by Professor Bertil Daneholt, Chairman of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet.
Steven Pinker Harvard University Interview on: Slate Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.
Marko Grobelnik Josef Stefan Institute Context Sensitivity in Knowledge Rich Systems on: Videolectures.net The main goal of this tutorial is to provide an extensive survey of the past and current work in the area of context related topics. This includes analysis of the past work: (1) defining the notion of context, (2) present logic-based formalisms for dealing with contexts, (3) present probabilistic/fuzzy approaches to model context, (4) demonstrate modelling the context and reasoning with contexts in real-life applications.
Haiku: The Operating System on: Google TechTalks This is an introduction to Haiku, an open source operating system designed from the ground up for the desktop, inspired in the concepts and technologies of BeOS. The presentation will cover the concepts and features that make Haiku unique, as well as a hands on demo.
Ursula B. Marvin Harvard-Smithsonian Center Life on Our Home Turf: Scanning the Solar System on: WBGH Is Earth the only planet with life in our solar system? Mars once had abundant liquid water.
Richard Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology Multiple Metal-Carbon Bonds for Catalytic Metathesis Reactions on: Nobelprize.org Richard R. Schrock held his Nobel Lecture December 8, 2005, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was presented by Professor Hkan Wennerstrm, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry
Donald McNeil New York Times A Simple Solution for Clean Water on: New York Times Donald G. McNeil Jr. demonstrates how a new personal water filter, worn around the neck, could help ensure people around the world have clean water to drink.
Julian Nott NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Intellectual Courage and Scientific Ballooning on: Kavli Institute Exploring Landscapes Near & Far - Nott presents the history of ballooning as a microcosm of the history of science and technology, and suggests that there are lessons of intellectual courage to be learned, central to all major human advances, and particularly to scientists exploring the greatest of the uncharted unknowns, the future.
Nobel Prize in Physics: George F. Smoot on: UC Berkeley Webcasts Cosmologist George F. Smoot, who led a team that obtained the first images of the infant universe, confirming the predictions of the Big Bang theory of its origins, has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Nathan Lewis California Institute of Technology Nathan Lewis: Powering the Planet: Where in the World Will Our Energy Come From? on: Caltech In a Watson lecture, Nate Lewis, Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech, discussed what it would take for the world to turn away from fossil fuels and switch over to renewable energy. He outlined the hurdles that must be overcome in order to power the planet with abundant, clean, inexpensive energy in the 21st century.
Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series: Stephanie DiMarco on: UC Berkeley Webcasts As Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Advent Software, Stephanie DiMarco has engineered the growth of the company from a startup in 1983 to an 800 person company today. Prior to founding Advent Software, Ms. DiMarco worked in the investment industry as a financial analyst and portfolio manager at Bank of America, Summit Investments and Cole Financial Group. Ms. DiMarco holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the UC Berkeley Foundation, serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a San Francisco Foundation board member and a member of its Investment and Audit committees.
Hans Reiser Namesys The Reiser4 Filesystem on: Google TechTalks The ReiserFS project aims to add support for semi-structured data querying to the filesystem namespace. Reiser4 is the storage layer for this. It stores all files in a dancing (not balanced)tree, and is currently the overall fastest filesystem for traditional filesystem usage patterns.
35th Anniversary of the Intel(r) 4004 Microprocessor on: The Computer History Museum and the Intel Museum invite you to mark the 35th anniversary of one of the most important products in technology history. Introduced in November 1971, the Intel(r) 4004 microprocessor was an early and significant commercial product to embody computer architecture within a silicon device. And it started an electronics revolution that changed our world.
Denise Grady New York Times Venom that Swims on: New York Times Science reporter Denise Grady hears a few venomous fish tales at the American Museum of Natural History.
