Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

Sean Carroll is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals and magazines such as Nature, The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist.

Recorded: 2016
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Yuval Harari is a 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 are preoccupied with concepts of free will, consciousness and definitions of intelligence.

Recorded: 2016
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Elon Musk has achieved success across multiple industries, with Tesla Motors, Solar City and SpaceX all under his leadership.

A biography by Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance digs into the stories behind Musk’s success, the CEO’s desire to colonize Mars and the respect and fear his employees reportedly have for him.

Vance joins us to talk about his book, “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.”

Recorded: 2016
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Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to his science hero, the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the man who many people describe as the greatest populariser of science of all time. His landmark television series Cosmos was seen by more than 60 million people worldwide and inspired a generation of young scientists to regard the universe with wonder and awe.
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Stuart Russell is a computer science and engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. Peter Stone is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas-Austin.

Recorded, 09/23/2016
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