A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store
A Personalized Trip to the Grocery Store
Technology Review IT editor Erica Naone visits a Stop & Shop in Braintree, Massachusetts, to test Modiv Media's new iPhone app. This lets consumers shop using a smart phone and serves up personalized offers when they do.
ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions ...
ACT Lecture | Muntadas: Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and ...
Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues such as the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ...
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less ...
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she ...
An overview of the MIT AgeLab
An overview of the MIT AgeLab
MIT's AgeLab is a multi-disciplinary team of researchers that works with industry, governments, universities and the aging community to innovate the future of longevity
Bill Joy's Energy Quest
Bill Joy's Energy Quest
The technologist turned venture capitalist describes his approach to investing in technologies that can avert climate change.
Jake Shapiro and Public Radio Exchange
Civic Media Lunch: "Jake Shapiro and Public Radio Exchange"
Shapiro talks about the latest developments with PRX, including their recently announced Public Media Accelerator and more broadly about public media's opportunity in the networked world.
Steven Pinker on Scientific Communication for the 21st ...
Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century: Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker, noted cognitive scientist and best-selling author, delivers the inaugural NSE lecture on "Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century."
Adapting Journalism to the Web
Communications Forum - Adapting Journalism to the Web
New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. How can professional reporters and editors assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Driving Successfully: Ann Hollis, OT, and Lissa Kapust, ...
Driving Successfully: Ann Hollis, OT, and Lissa Kapust, LICSW
Ann Hollis and Lisa Kapust, clinicians from the DriveWise Program at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will describe this innovative program.
Google's Eric Schmidt on "The Future of the Global Mind"
Google's Eric Schmidt at MIT Sloan: "The Future of the Global Mind"
With knowledge and data, a smarter world will divide work between humans and computers, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said in this Nov. 15, 2011, talk at MIT Sloan.
Hard Problems, Elegant Solutions, Big Impact
Hard Problems, Elegant Solutions, Big Impact
How we choose the "10 Emerging Technologies."
High Tech in Low Income: Akash Bhatia
High Tech in Low Income: Akash Bhatia
High tech is giving rise to new solutions and new opportunities for entrepreneurs. From the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
High Tech in Low Income: Alph Bingham
High Tech in Low Income: Alph Bingham
High tech is giving rise to new solutions and new opportunities for entrepreneurs. From the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
High Tech in Low Income: Austin Okere
High Tech in Low Income: Austin Okere
High tech is giving rise to new solutions and new opportunities for entrepreneurs.From the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
High Tech in Low Income: Kenfield Griffith
High Tech in Low Income: Kenfield Griffith
High tech is giving rise to new solutions and new opportunities for entrepreneurs. From the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
High Tech in Low Income: Zafar Khan
High Tech in Low Income: Zafar Khan
High tech is giving rise to new solutions and new opportunities for entrepreneurs. From the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, ...
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and ...
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and Social Dynamics Jim Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Tuesday, May 8 How have scientists gained awareness and understanding of phenomena that cover ...
Jay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins
Jay Gatsby and the Myth of American Origins
America's supreme economic, political and military power in the world is matched, says Leo Marx, by "correspondingly ardent, patriotic, nationalistic 'thinking of a large number of Americans, dedicated to the idea of America's unique, divinely ordain
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jeff Hammerbacher
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Jeff Hammerbacher
Hammerbacher presents his work at EmTech 2011: Managing huge data sets Company: Cloudera Learn more:http://techre.vu/wkeXPq
TR35: Paul Wicks
Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Paul Wicks
Wicks present his work at EmTech 2011: Networking patients to combat chronic diseases PatientsLikeMe Read the full story here: http://techre.vu/AFcW6M