Episodes
Roberto Ierusalimschy, professor at the Pontificial University in Rio de Janeiro, lectures about the Lua programming language. Ierusalimschy was the primary creator of Lua and he talks about the nuances of the systems and its potential. (March 10, 2010)
Published 06/18/10
Stuart Kauffman, Professor at Tampere University of Technology, discusses the idea of adjacent possibilities and the evolution of products that have created the economic circumstances in the world today. (March 3, 2010)
Published 06/09/10
Hal Whitehead and Peter Richerson discuss their work modeling of evolution of cultural capacity and population collapse, focusing on the influence of environmental variation and different learning strategies. (February 24, 2010)
Published 06/04/10
Glenn Hinton of Intel Corporation talks about Nehalem Microarchitecture. Intel's Nehalem Family of CPUs span from large multi-socket 32 core/64 thread systems to ultra small form factor laptops. (February 17, 2010)
Published 05/27/10
David Salesin discusses the importance of computer graphics and strategies for innovation at Adobe. (February 10, 2010)
Published 05/21/10
Anant Agarwal, from Tilera and MIT, discusses the 64 core and the 100 core processor and his research on a tiled processor that will provide faster speeds with more efficiency. (February 3, 2010)
Published 05/14/10
Matt Fuchs, of Paideia Computing, discusses how discrete event calculus is being used as a programming language for time dependent systems. (January 27, 2010)
Published 04/30/10
Brewster Kahle, from Internet Archive, discusses the importance of internet archiving and asks the question: how do we manage books in a virtual world? (January 20, 2010)
Published 04/27/10
Bruce Damer is the founder of Biota.org and the principal investigator of the EvoGrid project. He was instrumental in developing early user interfaces for personal computers working with Xerox and Elixir in the 1980s. (January 13, 2010)
Published 04/23/10
Tom Forsyth of Intel Corporation discusses Intel's ambitious project, Larabee, and highlights the major hardware architectural features that allow massive computing power within the x86 framework. (January 6, 2010)
Published 04/13/10