Multitouch goes widescreen
Jeff Han and Phillip Davidson showed off a remarkable “multitouch” computer interface at last year’s conference. They’ve been very busy in the subsequent year, expanding… Read More »Multitouch goes widescreen
Second-order information encoded in DNA
Jonathan Widom is one of the scholars who’s make a remarkable discovery about information encoded within DNA. There is, he tells us, an additional layer… Read More »Second-order information encoded in DNA
Murray Gell-Mann is a beautiful guy
Murray Gell-Mann has quite a resumé. He discovered/predicted the quark, won the Nobel Prize, founded the Santa Fe institute, and has made amazing advances in… Read More »Murray Gell-Mann is a beautiful guy
Bumping into people at TED
I just ran into Bruno Giussani, whose blog is the one I consider the authoritative account of TED. He’s posted a list of some of… Read More »Bumping into people at TED
The sword-swallowing statistician
Swedish professor Hans Rosling and his Gapminder software was one of the superstars of last year’s conference. He’s here again, with more statistics and visualizations… Read More »The sword-swallowing statistician
Steven Pinker on the decline of violence
Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, begins his presentation with an image of corpses on a truck, being taken from Auschwitz concentration camp.… Read More »Steven Pinker on the decline of violence