Craig Nevill-Manning is Google’s engineering director and senior research scientist. He’s also a very good computer science teacher. In a talk at Idea Festival about… Read More »Idea Festival: Craig Nevill-Manning and the secrets of Google’s success
Idea Festival had invited Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights lawyer, writer and Nobel Peace prize winner, to speak at the conference. Unfortunately, the Iranian… Read More »Idea festival: Pictures of peace
Nicholas Kristof has turned his column with the New York Times into a powerful tool to advocate for disadvantaged people around the world, especially in… Read More »Idea Festival: Kristof on Darfur
I’m here at the Idea Festival in Louisville, Kentucky for the next couple of days. Idea Festival was good enough to invite me to speak… Read More »Idea Festival: Dollar bills and epidemeology
RConversation: Eating “River Crab” at the Harmonious Forum ï¼ åƒæ²³èŸ¹å¼€å’Œè°ä¼š Rebecca explains why keyword filtering in China is causing Chinese bloggers to use puns, visual… Read More »links for 2007-09-13
Peter Galison is a pretty bright guy. He’s Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard, and a Macarthur Fellowship recipient, a scholar of the history of… Read More »Berkman: Peter Galison and “trading zones”