How to Defeat Human Aging – Dr. Aubrey de Grey

How to Defeat Human Aging - Dr. Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey is an author and biomedical gerontologist. He is currently the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation and VP of New Technology Discovery at AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.

He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). He is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today to live indefinitely.

Recorded: January, 2018
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Quantum Machine Learning – Prof. Lilienfeld

Quantum Machine Learning - Prof. Lilienfeld
Prof. O. Anatole von Lilienfeld of the University of Bassel presented his labs work on Quantum Machine Learning at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems on December 8th, 2017.
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Richard Branson – The Future of Space Travel

Richard Branson - The Future of Space Travel
February 13th, 2018
Richard Branson, talked about his start as a business owner and shared thoughts on the future of space travel at Goldman Sachs’ small business summit in Washington, DC.
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What Will We Do With Quantum Computing? – Aram Harrow, MIT

What Will We Do With Quantum Computing? - Aram Harrow, MIT
A large-scale quantum computer would be able to solve problems that existing classical computers would take much longer than the age of the universe to solve. This would have dramatic implications for cryptography, chemistry, material science, nuclear physics and probably other areas that are still un- known. But what about quantum computers that will be available in the next few years?

Nov 6th, 2016
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Yuval Harari – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari first published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011, and in English in 2014.

Yuval Harari is an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014) and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015). His writings examine concepts of free will, consciousness and definitions of intelligence.

Recorded: May 2016
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