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
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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
Idea festival: Pictures of peace
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
Idea Festival: Kristof on Darfur
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