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Graduate Computer Architecture
by David Patterson
Available on: Online Video
Graduate survey of contemporary computer organizations
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Software Breakthroughs
by Bill Gates
Available on: Online Video
Bill Gates’ talk at MIT provided an optimistic view of the next generation of computer science, now that the “rough draft” is done.
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Web 2.0
by Wikipedia
Available on: Audio Download
The term "Web 2.0" refers to development of the World Wide Web, including its architecture and its applications. However, a consensus upon its exact meaning has not yet been reached. A growing chorus of skeptics argue that the term is essentially meaningless...
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How the Acceleration of GNR (genetics, nanotechnology, robotics) Will Create a Flat and Equitable World
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Online Video
Ray Kurzweil may be the closest thing we have to a crystal ball.
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A Public Debate On The Limits of Intelligent Machines
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper 'On Computable Numbers' featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions.
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A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
Available on: Online Video
Wouldn’t it be exciting, Stephen Wolfram wonders, to have a little computer program that could function as a precise, ultimate model of our universe?
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Building One of the World's Largest Technology Businesses
by Frank Cloutier
Available on: Online Video
Anyone who remembers the din of a dot matrix printer at full throttle can appreciate the invention of inkjet printing. For this, we have Frank Cloutier and his prescient Hewlett-Packard team to thank.
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A Conversation with Michael Dell
by Michael Dell
Available on: Online Video
Michael Dell came to Sloan for an informal talk and question and answer period with Sloan students.
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Strategy for High Tech Companies
by Michael A. Cusumano
Available on: Online Video
If you are starting out in the software business, Michael Cusumano has some advice for you: think hard about whether to specialize in products or services, and take a serious look at trends in the industry.
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Creativity and Computers
by Margaret Boden
Available on: Online Video
The concept of creativity from the point of view of how original ideas develop is explored with the aid of recent advances in computer modelling programming strategies.
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$100 Laptop - NetSquared 2006
by Michael Brown
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The $100 Laptop: Simplicity Can Be Complicated with moderator Michael Brown featuring panelist Michail Bletsas speaking at the NetSquared Conference 2006.
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Culture and Technology, with Jaron Lanier
by Jaron Lanier
Available on: Online Video
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes computer scientist Jaron Lanier.
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Immortality Institute: Legal Rights of Conscious Computers
by Martine Rothblatt
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Presentation at the Immortality Institute's conference in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, by Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D. Title of presentation: Legal Rights of Concious Computers.
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Eyes in the Skies
by Colin Blakemore
Available on: Online Video
We are being watched. A bewildering array of sensors are remotely observing everyhting on earth, from crops in Africa to the car parked outside your house.
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Science, Ethics & Hope
by Laurie Zoloth
Available on: Audio Download
When our technology can produce possibilities that can both fascinate and repulse us?
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Steve Wozniak
by Steve Wozniak
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Authors Business Series Luncheon: Steve Wozniak
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Proactive Computing
by David Tennenhouse
Available on: Online Video
For almost 40 years, Computer Science has been dominated by J.C.R. Licklider's powerful vision of Interactive Computing.
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Taming Gaming in Your Home
by Peter Moore
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Taming Gaming in Your Home: Honest Guide to Today's Video Games.<P>
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Human Computation
by Luis Von Ahn
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs.
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Identity 2.0: Who Are We Now?
by Dick Hardt
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Dick Hardt discusses Identity 2.0: Who Are We Now?
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TV 2.0: Content in a Multimedia World
by Robert Scoble
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
A round-table discussion conducted by Robert Scoble which gives a glimpse at how people will watch TV in the future.
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Computers versus Common Sense
by Douglas Lenat
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
It's way past 2001 now, where the heck is HAL? For several decades now we've had high hopes for computers amplifying our mental abilities not just giving us access to relevant stored information, but answering our complex, contextual questions.
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iWoz: From Computer Geek to Culture Icon
by Steve Wozniak
Available on: Online Video
Steve Wozniak tells the tale of Apple's early years with such illuminating details and brio that engineers (and ordinary mortals) will feel they’d actually been on the scene.
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Authors@Google: Steven Levy
by Steven Levy
Available on: Online Video
Steven Levy discusses his new book The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness as part of Google's Authors@Google speaker series.
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