Category: Data-Labor-Technology Videos

Dr. George Church, renowned researcher and visionary in the fields of genetic sequencing, synthetic biology, genome engineering and evolutionary biology, visited UC Berkeley and gave this talk about the future of CRISPR technology and its impact on society.

Recorded: January 26, 2017
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Jeffrey Hawkins is the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002, founded Numenta in 2005 and published On Intelligence describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain.
Recorded At MIT, Dec 15th, 2017
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Geoffrey Hinton is an Engineering Fellow at Google where he manages the Brain Team Toronto, which is a new part of the Google Brain Team and is located at Google’s Toronto office at 111 Richmond Street. Brain Team Toronto does basic research on ways to improve neural network learning techniques. He is also the Chief Scientific Adviser of the new Vector Institute and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto.

Recorded: December 4th, 2017
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Recorded: July 19th, 2017
Ramez Naam is an American professional technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy.

Technological progress makes the world better but also brings new challenges, say Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, faculty members at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who have studied the impact of technology on economies for years.
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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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