Masters in Computer Science collected and described 20 must see TED videos for Computer Scientists. I previously saw some of these, but it’s nice to have them all handy in one place. If you prefer TED’s video player, click through to get the list. I personally like YouTube better. So I collected all these videos into a public playlist, which you can watch, bookmark, and share.
Contents:
- George Dyson: The birth of the computer
- Kwabena Boahen: Making a computer that works like the brain
- Jeff Han: Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design
- Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
- Dennis Hong: My 7 species of robot
- Gary Flake: is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
- Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral (and crochet)
- Lalitesh Kattragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
- Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain’s secrets
- David Hanson: Robots that “show emotion”
- JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data
- Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding
- Torsten Reil: Using biology to make better animation
- David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
- Alan Kay: A powerful idea about teaching ideas
- Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing
- Peter Hirshberg: The Web and TV, a sibling rivalry
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
- Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide