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How Technology Can Democratize Music

From the printing press to the digital camera, innovation has often democratized the creative arts. In this forward-looking talk, music producer Drew Silverstein demos a new software that allows anyone to create professional-grade music without putting human musicians out of work.

Subjects:: Technology, Performing Arts, and Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Technological innovations -- Social aspects Music technology Composition (Music)
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How Technology Has Changed What It's Like To Be Deaf

"Complete silence is very addictive," says Rebecca Knill, a writer who has cochlear implants that enable her to hear. In this funny, insightful talk, she explores the evolution of assistive listening technology, the outdated way people still respond to deafness and how we can shift our cultural understanding of ability to build a more inclusive world. "Technology has come so far," Knill says. "Our mindset just needs to catch up."

Subjects:: Health Technology and Informatics and Communication
Keywords:: Deafness -- Social aspects Hearing aids -- Technological innovations
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Art That Reveals How Technology Frames Reality

In a talk that could change how you see things, designer and artist Jiabao Li introduces her conceptual projects that expose the inherent bias of digital media. From a helmet that makes you "allergic" to the color red to a browser plug-in that filters the internet in an unexpected way, Li's creations uncover how technology mediates the way we perceive reality.

Subjects:: Interactive and Digital Media, Communication design, and Technology
Keywords:: Visual perception in art Digital media Pattern perception
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How Technology Changes Our Sense of Right And Wrong

What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behavior.

Subjects:: Technology and History
Keywords:: Technology civilization Technology -- Social aspects
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The Giant Leaps in Language Technology -- and Who's Left Behind

Thousands of languages thrive across the globe, yet modern speech technology -- with all of its benefits -- supports just over a hundred. Computational linguist Kalika Bali dreams of a day when technology acts as a bridge instead of a barrier, working passionately to build new and inclusive systems for the millions who speak low-resource languages. In this perspective-shifting talk, she outlines what happens when a language is omitted from the digital landscape -- and what can be gained when communities keep pace with the future.

Subjects:: Computing, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Language and Languages
Keywords:: Computational linguistics
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A performance of "Mathemagic"

In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He’ll tell you.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Mental arithmetic Mental calculators
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The Mathematics of War

By analyzing raw data on violent incidents in the Iraq war and others, Sean Gourley and his team claim to have found a surprisingly strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of attacks.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: War -- Mathematical models
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Science-Inspired Design

Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an antibiotic course in one layered pill, asthma treatment that reminds kids to take it, a living air filter, a living-room fish farm and more.

Keywords:: Creative ability in science Creative ability in technology Inventions
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A New Way To Fight Corruption

Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one bribe at a time.

Subjects:: Political Science and Society and Culture
Keywords:: Corruption -- Prevention
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Math Class Needs A Makeover

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Subjects:: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Mathematics -- Study teaching
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