Top TED Talks of 2011 To Inspire Tech Startups

He is also an amazing professor / educator. His class at Carnegie Mellon (15-251: Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science) is one of the hardest yet most entertaining CS courses at CMU. One of the first assignments involves a scavenger hunt with a randomly assigned team, across campus, based on challenging algorithmic puzzles inspired from many different areas of computer science.

In one semester, he found people who were copying on their homeworks by creating a website with solutions to a problem on an early assignment. Many people fell into the trap, even after he had given a very clear disclaimer to not use search engines to solve homework problems.

Here they are...

10. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...

9. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

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

8. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb AND Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_ever...

7. Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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

6. Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive AND Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves

http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_can_we_make_things_t...

5. Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold

http://www.ted.com/talks/morgan_spurlock_the_greatest_ted_ta...

4. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_c...

3. Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefon_harris_there_are_no_mistakes...

2. Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

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

1. JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn...

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/SalmanKhan_2011.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/TimHarford_2011G.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/HaraldHaas_2011G.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/RichardWilkinson_2011G.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/SkylarTibbits_2011U.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/MorganSpurlock_2011.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/LuisVonAhn_2011X.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/StefonHarris_2011S.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/BunkerRoy_2011G.mp4

wget http://download.ted.com/talks/JR_2011.mp4

Consider setting the Click-to-play option in about:flags. It's a built-in Flashblock equivalent for Chrome.

Very interesting until the middle, then he talks just about aging simulation and not about a solution.

"A solution would be to know which is a computer and which is a real user, it's not impossible to do so."

It seems like you have revolutionary knowledge that could change the course of human history. Or you're just trolling. Since you are not pointing to any actual approaches and hundreds of thousands of engineers have not yet come up with what to you is just "a solution" that doesn't even require further specification, I will go with trolling.

Figuring out remotely whether you are dealing with "a human" without any interaction (or, particularly, interaction less than a captcha, or even -gasp!- a two word captcha) is very definitely impossible. Think about it - how do you know whether it's a human? Well, you say, the black box device that he is sitting at has made sure that he is! And how does that machine transmit data to you? Over that data line that this supposed human is sitting right next... I guess you will see where I'm going with this.

Yep, I really liked the moral operating system talk as well - really powerful stuff. There's more on it here: http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/14/damon-horowitz-moral-opera...