Closing thoughts on Idea Festival
It must be fascinating to be as well known as physicist Dr. Michio Kaku. He’s had a long and distinguished career as a theoretical physicist,… Read More »Closing thoughts on Idea Festival
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Idea Festival: Woz. Wow.
Steve Wozniak is the featured speaker at the second night of the Idea Festival. After a long introduction, he takes the stage and tries to… Read More »Idea Festival: Woz. Wow.
Idea Festival: Swarmed by Robots
James McLurkin‘s talk is titled “Dances with Robots”. He’s a researcher at MIT studying distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems, a former engineer with iRobot. He… Read More »Idea Festival: Swarmed by Robots
Idea Festival: Barrington Irving, flying solo
Barrington Irving has seen a lot more of the world than most college students. What’s more impressive is that he was the one flying. Earlier… Read More »Idea Festival: Barrington Irving, flying solo
Idea Festival: Tiffany Shlain’s web of ideas
While Idea Festival isn’t quite the blogger gathering that many tech conferences are, there are a couple of us liveblogging here. Check out Evgeny Morozov,… Read More »Idea Festival: Tiffany Shlain’s web of ideas
Idea Festival: Craig Nevill-Manning and the secrets of Google’s success
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