TED-Videos zur Ergänzung der Vorlesung

Videos sind weniger einschläfernd als wissenschaftliche Literatur. Unten habe ich eine Liste von Videos von Vorträgen zusammengestellt. Die Redner haben allesamt etwas zu sagen und die Präsentation sind niemals so lang wie meine Vorlesung - meistens dauern sie ungefähr 20 min. Natürlich haben die Redner ihre Präsentationen auch bestens vorbereitet: Die Tickets zu den Veranstaltungen, bei denen diese Videos aufgezeichnet wurden, leigen mit ~ $ 4.000 deutlich über den Studiengebühren einer deutschen Universität.

Für Feedback zu den Videos wäre ich dankbar. Vielleicht machen wir zu den Videos gegen Ende des Semesters am besten eine kleine Online-Umfrage.

Die Links zu den Videos sind auch auf del.icio.us gespeichert: http://www.delicious.com/raem/V-II+video

Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us

http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html

Ray Kurzweil is an engineer who has radically advanced the fields of speech, text, and audio technology. He's also one of our finest thinkers, revered for his dizzying -- yet convincing -- writing

Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development

Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"
http://www.ted.com/talks/craig_venter_unveils_synthetic_life.html

In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean's biodiversity. And now, in 2010, he's created the first synthetic lifeforms

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity
http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

Harvard professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition

Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics
http://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_on_the_new_open_source_economics.html

Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html

Steven Berlin Johnson is the best-selling author of six books on the intersection of science, technology and personal experience. His forthcoming book examines "Where Good Ideas Come From."

Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html

British author Matt Ridley argues that, through history, the engine of human progress and prosperity has been, and is, "ideas having sex with each other."

Charles Leadbeater on innovation
http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html

A researcher at the London think tank Demos, Charles Leadbeater was early to notice the rise of "amateur innovation" -- great ideas from outside the traditional walls, from people who suddenly have