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David Barnes - Five Innovations that will Change Cities

IBM's David Barnes describes the future evolution of big cities during one of the biggest rural to urban migrations in history. In order to for these 'superorganism' cities to continue to grow healthily, there are five innovations that smart cities will need in the next five years. And IBM, David Barnes explains, is gathering the data to ensure that these five innovations are possible.
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What Animals can Teach Us about Health Care

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the new book, Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us about Health and the Science of Healing, with author and UCLA Cardiology Professor, Barbara Natterson Horowitz.
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Developments in Vaccines and Diagnostics

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about new vaccines for neglected diseases and about a handheld device which can detect disease on the spot with the CEOs from Inviragen and Opko Diagnostics, Dan Stinchcomb and David Steinmiller.
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Nicole Sullivan - CSS3 & HTML5

Nicole Sullivan, architect with the Stubbornella Consulting Group, speaks about CSS3 and HTML5. She discusses the current state of CSS3, what issues major browsers might have with its implementation and how current practices might affect outcomes. She also speaks about the relationship between CSS3 and HTML 5 and about the issues that mobile sites are encountering in running web languages.
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Jan Dawson - Telecoms in 2020

Apple and Google are both big enough to buy AT&T. So, would they want their own carrier? Jan Dawson of Ovum Telecoms makes a ten-year projection for the telecom industry. He predicts two trends. A shift in value from carrier to content. And the needs of telecom consumers driving the development of offers, which in turn will lead to the formation of two types of players -- the S.M.A.R.T. and the L.E.A.N.
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Larry Rosen - Technology Obsession and How to Overcome It

Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the extent of our obsession with technology and how to overcome it from research psychologist and author, Larry Rosen, from his new book, iDisorder: Understanding Our Obsession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us.
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Terry Hisey and Matthew Hudes - Comparitive Effectiveness

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with experts, Terry Hisey and Matthew Hudes from Deliotte, about the meaning of comparative effectiveness and the term: Bio-Pharma.
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Justin Sheehy - Distributed Systems, Databases, and Resilience

Computer systems are moving from local to distributed form while growing in complexity. One result is an increased concern about system failure. Justin Sheehy believes the concern is misplaced and we should focus more on recovery. All systems eventually fail. A powerful recovery capability will quickly compensate for this. And while highly distributed systems are increasingly complex, they can and are being developed to be fault-tolerant. A fault-tolerant system provides an early warning to allow timely application of a recovery plan.
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Alex Rampell - Monetizing Data in Transactions

TrialPay is a transaction processing company that wants to make more than a two percent fee from each transaction -- so they do it for free. Alex Rampell explains that the data on any transaction is worth more than 2 pct. Further, he believes the 2 pct charge is going away. So TrialPay is selling ad space around the receipt. Rampell says payment companies can monetize data better than anybody, offering opportunities to advertisers, while keeping customer transactions secure.
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Richard P. Nespola - The Changing Face of Communications

What is the digital Swiss Army knife that you grab along with your keys and wallet when starting out for the day? That device is your smart phone, and Rich Nespola says the other two things are irrelevant. In this talk he describes how the global app "hockey stick effect" is creating seismic changes in innovation, and why collaboration among separate companies will be essential to survive in the emerging mobile communications ecosystem.
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Bryan Cantrill - Instrumenting the real-time web

The third major semantic web revolution is node.js, following Java and Ruby. One programmer replaced 10,000 lines of production C code with 4,000 lines of node.js, and that's just the beginning. Bryan Cantrill of Joyent, Inc. describes a new class of applications that will further revolutionize the real time web, especially mobile.
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Science-Based advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs

Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with Jonathan Koomley, author of Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs about why he believes the climate problem is misunderstood.
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Rick Alvarez - New Research into Sickle Cell Anemia

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Rick Alvarez, Vice President of Operations and Research at Selexys Pharmaceuticals, about his research into Sickle Cell Anemia.
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Tom Larkworthy - Efficiency Through Gender

For robotics to become ubiquitous, the key is a simple efficient connector. Organic chemistry is a simple self-reconfiguring process which inspired Tom Larkworthy to emulate it in self-reconfigurable robots. Larkworthy's pragmatic work focuses on a lattice arrangement, a hexagonal metamorphical robot with a simple set of local motion constraints. Per Sjöborg and Larkworthy discuss how gender, simplicity and limits contribute to efficiency in self-reconfigurable robots.
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LeVar Burton - Literature in a Modern World

Known as a popular actor, LaVar Burton also has a long history as a major supporter of reading. In his 2012 O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing keynote presentation, he discusses literature and the written word, and how it continues to evolve in our society. Burton reviews his early influences, his career and expresses an optimism for the future of literature.
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Kelly Fitzsimmons - Voice 3.0: Emergence of RVPs

How would you do an SQL query on a binary audio file? Kelly Fitzsimmons, founder of HarQen, explains how that is being done now, and that specially crafted systems can actually organize conversations in a way to get the data out. Hear how the technical and social aspects of human behavior merge to show that voice really matters for the future, starting now.
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How the Internet is Changing the Fashion Industry

Elena Silenok, CEO and Founder of fashion startup Clothia, gives us an overview of some of the ways fashion enthusiasts are using the social web to discover and share their fashion finds. Providing a brief tour of seven web companies, Elena describes how users' online habits reflect the more traditional, physical-world activities of fashionistas.
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Kate Matsudaira - Software Launch Failures: The Good Parts

Failure happens. But applying a calm, methodical approach to finding solutions after a failed software launch can put you back on track with both customers and the public. According to Kate Matsudaira, VP at SEOmoz, balancing interests between what is needed in the short-term and the longer-term can be tricky. Doing a thorough post-mortem analysis of what went wrong and communicating it broadly can go a long way to restoring confidence and to avoid falling into the same trap.
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Scott Lemon - The Internet of Things (IoT)

Technometria co-host Scott Lemon discusses his new experiences with Wovyn, a company that is deeply involved in the Internet of Things. IoT allows users to control all aspects of their digital lives, including their personal devices, appliances, and utilities. He reviews a number of the technical aspects of IoT, beginning with the clear belief of its future importance to the consumer. He also talks about how Wovyn used Kickstarter as a way to help fund the company's projects.
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Lifestyle Segmentation from Carrier Location & Call Data

For billions of calls made and SMSes sent every day, mobile network operators across the world gather data sets relating to various dimensions like the call's time, location of its origin, duration, mobile handset used etc. Greg Skibiski, CEO & Co-Founder of New York based Sense Networks, showcases some of the company's innovative service offerings like Macrosense, which analyzes this big data for understanding consumer behavior.
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