TED talks for IT pros

Re:TED talks for IT pros by tooto on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @11:30PM (#1655186)

I'm in the process of watching all of them .. very few I skip. great topics great speakers!

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Re:TED talks for IT pros by devijvers on Thursday September 02, 2010 @02:40AM (#1655477)

I would swap snake oil salesman Kurzweil for Clay Shirky's institutions vs collaboration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw

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Re:TED talks for IT pros by unbounded on Thursday September 02, 2010 @05:19PM (#1657721)

He has recently gotten a lot of heat for some of his recent comments. But calling him a snake oil salesman hardly seems fitting, as he has heavily contributed to the AI field (in OCR, pattern recognition, and speech recognition if I recall correctly). Sure, the guy is a whack job (the stuff about medicine comes to mind), but he's one smart whack job.

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