Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, for this elegant presentation of “three stories and an argument.” The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]
In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give [...]
“Can we create new life out of our digital universe?” asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into “fourth-generation fuels” — biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the [...]
This subject is aimed at students with little or no programming experience. It aims to provide students with an understanding of the role computation can play in solving problems. It also aims to help students, regardless of their major, to feel justifiably confident of their ability to write small programs that allow them to accomplish [...]
This enterprise forum panel discussion looks at venture capital strategies in 2011, with a particular emphasis on some recent developments including a larger volume of deals and some of the more extreme valuation figures that are coming out e.g. Twitter, Zynga, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. The video is part of the week’s focus on venture capital [...]
This course (CS229) — taught by Professor Andrew Ng — provides a broad introduction to machine learning and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include supervised learning, unsupervised learning, learning theory, reinforcement learning and adaptive control. Recent applications of machine learning, such as to robotic control, data mining, autonomous navigation, bioinformatics, speech recognition, and text and web [...]
The founder of Palm, Jeff Hawkins, solves the mystery of Artificial Intelligence and presents his theory at the RSA Conference 2008. He gives a brief tutorial on the neocortex and then explains how the brain stores memory and then describes how to use that knowledge to create artificial intelligence. This lecture is insightful and his [...]
(November 3, 2010) Speakers Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones give a presentation on the book titled “Elements of Programming”. They explain why they wrote and attempt to explain their book. They describe programming as a mathematical discipline and that it is extremely useful and should not be overlooked.
(March 2, 2011) Armin Rigo discusses the research he has done to implement Python in Python. The new project, titled PyPy, can increase the speed at which programs run, as well as reduce the total memory that they use. He hopes that it can help advance the field of computer science as we move deeper [...]
(November 10, 2010) Speaker Jeffrey Dean describes some of his experiences at Google and the types of technology being used today during this Stanford lecture. He talks about how their technology has evolved over time and how their technological infrastructure has allowed them to be so successful.
