Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

Recorded: December 7th, 2017
Jaron Lanier explored the connection between the brain and the world and argued that virtual reality enhances lives.
Jaron Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. A pioneer in the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves.
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Can data really help solve your state’s opioid problems? Dr. Michael Petersen explains the value of analytics as both a strategy for fighting the epidemic as well as a prevention tool that promotes patient engagement. Learn more: https://accntu.re/2EWHZvw
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The witnesses are: Professor David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, and Professor of Modern British History, King’s College London Professor Peter McOwan, Vice Principal, Public Engagement and Student Enterprise, Queen Mary University of London Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, President, Royal Statistical Society
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Recorded: Jan 17th, 2018
Yoshua Bengio, a Computer Science and Operations Research professor at l’Université de Montreal and the scientific director of the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms speaks on Daybreak about the ethical development of artificial intelligence, and the potential risks if AI development is left unchecked.
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Daniel Dennett has never been one to swallow accepted wisdom undigested. As a student he happily sought to undermine the work of his supervisor, Willard Quine. Only one of the most respected figures in 20th century philosophy, a thinker eminent enough to appear on US postage stamps. Later in Oxford, he became frustrated by his fellow philosophers’ utter lack of interest in how our brains worked and was delighted when a medical friend introduced him to neurons. And so began an intellectual quest to understand the human mind that spans five decades.

Apr 4th, 2017
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Robert Oppenheimer explains in his lecture entitled ‘The Sciences and Man’s Community’, how the “House of Science” helps us to understand the underlying profundities of the earth and our lives. He draws parallels between the construction of human society and the atom: each man is dependent on the next, and through the power of the collective, Man’s power grows with the shared knowledge of individuals.

20th of December, 1953
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Professor Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002. He holds degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics. He is Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, one of three strategic centres in biomedical ethics in the UK funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Recorded: May 2017
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