From: VideoLectures on Fri, Jul 01 2011 11:15 AM

W.L. Gore’s products alone, such as the eponymous GORE-TEX® water- and windproof fabrics, and a multitude of unique medical, electronic and industrial materials, might seem to assure the company’s success. But Terri Kelly attributes the 50-year-old company’s achievements not just to engineering ...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Jul 01 2011 11:15 AM

If successful business depends on innovation, wonders Ricardo Semler, why are automobiles made essentially the same way today as they were in Ford’s first assembly line 100 years ago? Parallel parking is one of “ the stupidest things we do,” says Semler, “If we had a day, could we not by tomorro...

From: VideoLectures on Fri, Jul 01 2011 11:15 AM

What does it take to achieve the impossible? The lure of a lucrative payoff or of worldwide fame, and a talented team who simply say, “Enough is enough, we’re going to change things.” That’s the perspective of Diamandis and the X Prize Foundation, whose original $10-million award went to Bert R...

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Introduction to dynamical processes.

From: VideoLectures on Sun, May 29 2011 1:31 AM

Milton’s early ode, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (1629) is presented and discussed. The author's preoccupation with his standing as a novice poet and his early ambitions, as carefully outlined in the letter to Charles Diodati, are examined. The ode's subject matter, other...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:51 PM

What happens in the vicinity of a curve crossing?

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

An introduction to John Milton: man, poet, and legend. Milton’s place at the center of the English literary canon is asserted, articulated, and examined through a discussion of Milton's long, complicated association with literary power. The conception of Miltonic power and its calculated us...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

In this talk a look is taken at the relatively new area of culturing neural tissue and embodying it in a mobile robot platform—essentially giving a robot a biological brain. Present technology and practice is discussed. New trends and the potential effects of and in this area are also indicated. ...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

With the rapid rise in the popularity of social media (500M+ Facebook users, 100M+ twitter users), and near ubiquitous mobile access (4.1 billion actively-used mobile phones), the sharing of observations and opinions has become common-place (nearly 100M tweets a day, 1.8 trillion SMSs in US last...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

The Web, similar to other successful man made systems is continuously evolving. With the miniaturization and increased performance of computing devices which are also being embedded in common physical objects, it is natural that the Web evolved to also include these – therefore the Web of Things...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

The Web, similar to other successful man made systems is continuously evolving. With the miniaturization and increased performance of computing devices which are also being embedded in common physical objects, it is natural that the Web evolved to also include these – therefore the Web of Things...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:50 PM

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM

With the rapid rise in the popularity of social media (500M+ Facebook users, 100M+ twitter users), and near ubiquitous mobile access (4.1 billion actively-used mobile phones), the sharing of observations and opinions has become common-place (nearly 100M tweets a day, 1.8 trillion SMSs in US last...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM

Zygmunt Bauman was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1992 and the Theodor W. Adorno Award of the city of Frankfurt in 1998. He has been awarded in 2010, jointly with Alain Touraine, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities. The Univ...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM

Zygmunt Bauman was awarded the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1992 and the Theodor W. Adorno Award of the city of Frankfurt in 1998. He has been awarded in 2010, jointly with Alain Touraine, the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for Communication and the Humanities. The Univ...

From: VideoLectures on Thu, May 26 2011 8:49 PM