Bruce Schneier: The security mirage

Bruce Schneier is an expert in internet security. He shared about security, and how we perceive it.

If people can better map feeling to reality, they can make better trade off. 

Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice

Roger Ebert is a film critic who has lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak due to cancer. He is aided by Apple's Voice System Alex and his friend with wife, to share how he has live with the disease.


You all know the test for artificial intelligence -- the Turing test. A human judge has a conversationwith a human and a computer. If the judge can't tell the machine apart from the human, the machine has passed the test. I now propose a test for computer voices -- the Ebert test. If a computer voice can successfully tell a joke and do the timing and delivery as well as Henny Youngman, then that's the voice I want.

Caroline Casey: Looking past limits

She can't see. She first leave the life of a normal people. And then one day, she completely lost her  sight, and decided to accept her destiny. She said that: "cars and motorbikes and elephants, that's not freedom.Being absolutely true to yourself, is freedom. And I never needed eyes to see -- never. I simply needed vision and belief. And if you truly believe --and I mean believe from the bottom of your heart --you can make change happen. "

Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong

What people felt when they disagree with you:
1. The ignorance assumption
2. The idiocy assumption
3. The evil assumption

Fallor ergo sum
I err therefore I am.
Saint Augustine

- Different perception about the world.

Peter Gabriel fights justice with video

Peter Gabriel showed the work of WITNESS, and demonstrated how the work of video can change the world.

Sebastian Thrun: Google's driverless car

Sebastian started this study because he loosed one of his friend when he was 18. Car accident is still the number one killer of teenager.  Driverless Car mean safety, time saved (avg. 53 min), and higher fuel efficiency.

Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English!

Patricia Ryan is an English Teacher, who think that language should be something for people to discover this world, instead of limiting it. She talked about the world languages getting less and less, and the fact that we limit the official working language to one, further empower the English language to eliminate other languages, and knowledge of the world. 

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

Mick Ebeling built a device for an Tempt, an graphical artist who was paralyzed. The device recognizes eyes motion, and use projector to project things, it allows the artist to draw again.


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