The Future of Technology in 90 SecondsJan 27, 2012 | 6:00 pm
The Future of Technology in 90 Seconds
Complete video at: fora.tv Phil McKinney, recently retired vice president and chief technology officer of the $40 billion Personal Systems Group at HP, and Brad Peters, CEO of Burst Inc.
Online Marketing: Google's Zero Moment of TruJan 27, 2012 | 3:30 pm
Online Marketing: Google's Zero Moment of Truth
Complete video at: fora.tv Jeremy Arnon, Strategic Partner Development of Mobile Commerce for Google, examines a new trend in how consumers make purchase decisions.
Carl Levin: Tax fairness "front and center" wJan 26, 2012 | 9:00 am
Carl Levin: Tax fairness "front and center" with voters in '12 - thanks, in part, to Romney's taxes
Complete video at: fora.tv Sen.
US defense budget: Sound, but sequestration "Jan 26, 2012 | 8:30 am
US defense budget: Sound, but sequestration "a totally different ballgame"
Complete video at: fora.tv After decrying Mitt Romney's analysis of the United States' defense situation as "political" and "not born out by the facts," Sen.
Mitt Romney's taxes: Sen Carl Levin says no sJan 26, 2012 | 8:30 am
Mitt Romney's taxes: Sen Carl Levin says no such thing as "ordinary" Swiss bank account
Complete video at: fora.tv After calling on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax returns from before 2010, Sen.
Are Tablets This Generation's Television?Jan 25, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Are Tablets This Generation's Television?
Complete video at: fora.tv Jason Baptiste, CEO and Co-Founder of Onswipe, shares one of his four pillars of where the web is headed.
Eight Mobile Trends for 2012Jan 24, 2012 | 3:00 pm
Eight Mobile Trends for 2012
Complete video at: fora.tv Andy Weissman, a partner at Union Square Ventures, discusses what he sees as the biggest trends in mobile for 2012.
Christina Romer: Two Hundred Thousand Jobs isJan 24, 2012 | 10:00 am
Christina Romer: Two Hundred Thousand Jobs is Not Enough
Complete video at: fora.tv Christina Romer, Former Obama administration Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers calls the recent report on job growth "not good enough" to signal a strong recovery.
Art in Science: How Innovative Images Led to Jan 23, 2012 | 2:00 pm
Art in Science: How Innovative Images Led to a 'Miraculous' Revolution in Neurology
Complete video at: fora.tv Carl Schoonover, author of Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century , describes the "miraculous" revolution that occurred in neural imaging during the late 19th century.
News Corp's Jon Miller: Is Google 'On the WroJan 20, 2012 | 12:30 pm
News Corp's Jon Miller: Is Google 'On the Wrong Side' of SOPA?
Complete video at: fora.tv Jon Miller, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Media Group at News Corp, frames the argument for and against SOPA, and explains why News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch tweeted his opinion that Google's stance against SOPA is "on the wrong side" of the issue.
The Unquiet American: Richard HolbrookeJan 27, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Journalists Kati Marton and David Rohde and historian Gordon M. Goldstein assess the late Richard Holbrooke's legacy in a discussion moderated by Roger Cohen of the New York Times.
Monitor Breakfast: U.S. Senator Carl LevinJan 26, 2012 | 8:00 am
On Thursday, January 26, 2012, Senator Carl Levin (D, MI) joined the Monitor Breakfast for a conversation with reporters.He has been Michigan's senior senator since 1995.
Kevin Rudd: The Asia-Pacific CenturyJan 23, 2012 | 4:30 pm
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd assesses China's rise, America's "strategic pivot" towards East Asia, and recent developments in Myanmar. Introduced by former World Bank President and Asia Society Trustee James Wolfensohn.
Ten Years After 9/11: How Has the United StatJan 19, 2012 | 3:30 pm
The New School for Public Engagement | http://newschool.edu/public-engagementThe Nation at The New School - Ten Years After 9.
Jodi Kantor in Conversation with David BrooksJan 19, 2012 | 3:30 pm
When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to Michelles fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit.
Nancy Kelley: Modern Day SlaveryJan 19, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Thousands of people are estimated to be working as slaves within the UK, in highly exploitative conditions, with no rights, and under threat of violence. This lecture will discuss some of the issues.
R2P in 2022Jan 18, 2012 | 8:30 pm
This panel will project a vision of how R2P can and should develop over the coming decade. It will consider what challenges and prospects the concept will face and what world leaders, experts, and advocates must consider as global events unfold.
Jan 18, 2012 | 8:30 pm
This panel will examine how R2P has been applied across different cases whether as a rallying cry, a policy framework, or a tool for diplomatic engagement and to what degree these uses have been effective. It will seek to identify R2Ps added value, considering both limitations and hidden potential as the concept evolves in the coming decade.
Jan 18, 2012 | 5:30 pm
This panel will consider what exercising R2P means for the internal and foreign policy of individual states. Panelists will speak to the experience of an expanding global network of officials working at the domestic level to integrate R2P within national policy.
Amitav Ghosh and Jonathan SpenceJan 27, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Novelist Amitav Ghosh and historian Jonathan Spence discuss China and India's relationship over the centuries and the 19th-century Opium Wars, which form the backdrop to Ghosh's new novel, River of Smoke.
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:00:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
Richard J. Evans: The Scramble for AfricaJan 26, 2012 | 1:00 pm
In the early 1880s, informalimperial expansion gave way to
formal imperial acquisitions. Between this pointand the outbreak of the
First World War, more colonial territory was acquiredby European states
than in the previous three-quarters of a century.
Nassim Taleb: The Predictability of UnpredictJan 26, 2012 | 9:00 am
Renowned academic and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses his groundbreaking ideas and their relevance to the current economic crisis, national policy making and other topics with Rohan Silva, senior policy advisor to the British Prime Minister.
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:43:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Media Council Breakfast with Ken and Ben LereJan 24, 2012 | 9:30 am
Kenneth LererKenneth Lerer is a Manager of Lerer Ventures. He was the chairman and cofounder of The Huffington Post and is chairman of Betaworks, Bedrocket and Buzzfeed.
Rediscovering The New Yorker's Wolcott GibbsJan 23, 2012 | 5:00 pm
When The New Yorker began publication in 1925, founding editor Harold Ross intended it to be a smart magazine of metropolitan life. Many of the writers who created the magazine's distinctive styleincluding E.
The Unconquered: Brazil's People of the ArrowJan 20, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Journey with author Scott Wallace deep into the Amazon rain forest in search of one of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth.
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:30:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
English Architecture: The Rise of Consensus, Jan 20, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Opened up to the world once more England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:00:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
Exploring Entertainment Content in the CloudJan 18, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Exploring Entertainment Content in the Cloud
Will viewers embrace digital lockers and store their favorite content in the cloud?
Join PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Paley Center for Media to explore current trends related to consumer perceptions and potential business models related to digital lockers. Given the release of multiple new cloud-based lockers, industry executives are watching consumers closely to see if these lockers can be attractive and encourage purchase behavior.
TimesTalks: Liam Neeson in ConversationJan 17, 2012 | 8:00 pm
The award-winning actor and the director/writer collaborated on The A-Team, and now they have a new film together: The Grey. Hear them discuss the heroic action thriller, which pits man against weather and wolves in the Alaska wilderness.
The Better Angels of our NatureJan 17, 2012 | 2:00 pm
Steven Pinker, one of the world's most exciting public thinkers, presents a radical re-assessment of human progress.In 'The Better Angels of our Nature', Pinker traces a history of progress that reveals the historical circumstances and civilising forces, from commerce to cosmopolitanism, that have brought us to the most peaceful era humankind has yet experienced.
Robert Barnes: The Future of the EU and GlobaJan 26, 2012 | 12:30 pm
After the largest financial crisis in the history of the capital
markets, what changes do we need to promote liquidity recovery? As authorities
world-wide seek a safe framework within which we can behave as entrepreneurs,
what insights can Equities offer Over-The-Counter markets andvice-versa?Investors
and Exchanges empowered with choice of on-and-off-orderbook mechanisms, dark
and light, will innovate electronic trading to diversify by geography and asset
class. Come and learn the bold ideas shaping the new landscape.
The Price of Fish: Making Sense of Real WorldJan 25, 2012 | 6:30 pm
The Price of Fishaddresses issues related
to 'real' (as opposed to 'transactional') commerce: the complex ways in which
people, organisations and societies communicate and deal with each other. The
book argues that real commerce drives society, politics, the economy and our
future, including the ways complex interactions adapt and change over time.
John Elkington: Beyond Bubbles - Riding the CJan 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm
Is sustainability investment missed by our focussing on market
bubbles in current economical and financial discussions?
Sustainability calls for timescales far beyond the scope of market
bubbles, working in tens or even hundreds of years, in contrast to the
increasingly fast pace of market volatility. Does this mean that it is immune
to market bubbles, or is it doomed to be hindered by many collapses of the market
before any investments are able to come to fruition? Are there fundamental
market factors that can drive sustainability investment (and return) regardless
to the bubbles?
For the transcript or download versions of this part of the Long
Finance conference, please visit the conferences page on the Gresham College
website: Bubble Trouble - Pop Goes Sustainability?
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:00:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
John Redwood: Does Bursting One Bubble Lead tJan 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm
John Redwood delivers the keynote speech in the Long Finance
conference, Bubble Trouble Pop goes sustainability?.
This conference focussed on the subject of market bubbles and
their effects on efforts to ensure sustainability.
Andy Haldane: Get Shorty - Finance and the ShJan 24, 2012 | 12:00 pm
Patience is a virtue. But does it have value? Andrew Haldane will
discuss the importance of patience to growth and stability, its recent
evolution and its implications for financial markets and systems.
Christina Romer & Michael Boskin: Economic FoJan 20, 2012 | 4:00 pm
As our struggling economy and nation limp into a critical election year, dont miss this chance to hear a lively discussion with two former top presidential economic advisors on where the U.S.
Playing Our Game: Author Edward SteinfeldJan 11, 2012 | 1:00 pm
Author Edward Steinfeld discusses his recently published "Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West." Dr.
J-REC: US-Israel Security Through Cleantech CDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC Catalyst Session: Policy ReformDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC Catalyst Session: Clean EconomyDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
Glenn Wilson: Mad, Bad or Sad?Jan 25, 2012 | 6:30 pm
Personality disorders are a contentious issue in psychiatry. How
many are there and how reliable is their diagnosis? Are we just medicalising
bad behaviour and social inadequacy.
John D. Barrow: How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run?Jan 25, 2012 | 6:30 pm
How can Usain Bolt improve his world 100 metres sprint record
significantly without improving his speed? How fast should he be able to run?
We will also examine the mechanics of sprinting and the effects of wind
assistance, timing accuracy, and altitude on sprint times and look at the
status of the long-standing womens sprint world records set by the late
Florence Griffiths Joyner (Flo-Jo) in 1988.
For the transcript or download versions of this lecture, please
visit the events page on the Gresham
College website: Maths and Sport: How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run?
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Jan 20, 2012 | 12:30 pm
variste Galois was born 200 years ago and died aged 20, shot in a mysterious early-morning duel in 1832. He left contributions to the theory of equations that changed the direction of mathematics and led directly to what is now broadly described as 'modern' or 'abstract' algebra.
A Voyage Round Saturn, Its Rings and MoonsJan 20, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in our Solar System. Famous for its bright yet ethereal rings, the gas giant has over sixty natural satellites in orbit around it and one artificial satellite: NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which provides many of the results and images that will be showcased in this talk.
Glenn Wilson: The Pursuit of HappinessJan 19, 2012 | 12:00 pm
What makes us happy? Is it a genetic trait that we are stuck with, or a product of events unfolding in our living? Does it help to be rich? What can be done to overcome set-backs and and improve our sense of well being?
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:00:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.tv/2011/11/01/Glenn_Wilson_The_Pursuit_of_Happiness
Program and discussion: http://fora.
The Great MathematiciansJan 17, 2012 | 1:30 pm
A lecture to mark the publication of Robin Wilson and Raymond Flood's new book. Mathematics pervades our daily lives.
Exploring the Edge of ExistenceJan 11, 2012 | 3:30 pm
Nobel Laureate John Mather and Nat Geo Explorer-in-Residence Robert Ballard discuss how technology expands the limits of the known universe.
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:00:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Robert Trivers: Why Do We Deceive Ourselves?Jan 11, 2012 | 12:30 pm
One of the worlds most influential evolutionary theorists Robert Trivers asks: why do we lie to ourselves?
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 06:50:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.tv/2011/10/04/Robert_Trivers_Why_Do_We_Deceive_Ourselves
Program and discussion: http://fora.
Who Lives? Who Dies?Jan 6, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Why do only certain species survive? How can our growing knowledge of genomes reveal a deeper understanding of lifes cycles and secrets? Hear a conversation between Martin Chalfie, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, introduced green fluorescent protein as a biological marker, enabling scientists to study biological processes that were previously invisible, and Nat Geo Emerging Explorer Beth Shapiro, who uses ancient plant and animal DNA to study evolution. Nat Geo Weekend host Boyd Matson moderates.
Jan 6, 2012 | 12:30 pm
Far north of the Arctic Circle, emerging explorer Jrn Hurum coaxes the secrets of evolution from a rocky polar desert with a treasure trove of fossils, including sea monsters of the Jurassic era.
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:54:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Future Shock: Technology in the Next 10 YearsJan 20, 2012 | 4:00 pm
Some of the best minds in Silicon Valley discuss the future of technology, from cool flat-surface displays to self-organizing social media and proliferation of billions of mobile devices.
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:29:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Jan 20, 2012 | 4:00 pm
Experts from Intel Corporation discuss major problems facing humanity, including global warming, an aging world population and the relentless pace of technology. Will better technology solve these problems or are humans hitting a fundamental physical barrier to progress?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:20:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
L2 Clinic: Mobile 2012: Module 1Jan 19, 2012 | 3:30 pm
In Q4 2010, smartphone shipments overtook those of PCs for the first time.Throughout 2011, we saw traffic from non-PC devices in the U.
L2 Clinic: Mobile 2012: Module 2Jan 19, 2012 | 3:30 pm
In Q4 2010, smartphone shipments overtook those of PCs for the first time.Throughout 2011, we saw traffic from non-PC devices in the U.
L2 Mobile Clinic: Module 1Jan 19, 2012 | 12:30 pm
In Q4 2010, smartphone shipments overtook those of PCs for the first time.Throughout 2011, we saw traffic from non-PC devices in the U.
Jan 11, 2012 | 7:00 pm
Last minute changes? New productivity tools put editing commands right at your fingertips.Autodesk Design Suite Premium is a powerful package that extends your familiar AutoCAD workflow with concept sketching and intuitive visual communication tools.
AutoCAD Productivity ToolsJan 11, 2012 | 5:00 pm
Last minute changes? New productivity tools put editing commands right at your fingertips.
Autodesk Design Suite Premium is a powerful package that extends your familiar AutoCAD workflow with concept sketching and intuitive visual communication tools.
ICANN: The Next Big .thing: New Top-Level DomJan 11, 2012 | 11:00 am
On January 12, 2010, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will open a process that could trigger a dramatic expansion of the Internet and launch a new era of online innovation. We are familiar with .
IC2011: Interlude's Yoni Bloch Serenades SherDec 28, 2011 | 7:00 pm
Israeli rock star and online-video entrepreneur Yoni Bloch demonstrates a new interactive video application: a real-time customizable music video tribute to Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg.
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:30:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All KnowlDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
As founder and librarian of the storied Internet Archive (deemed impossible by all when he started it in 1996), Brewster Kahle has practical experience behind his universalist vision of access to every bit of knowledge ever created, for all time, ever improving.
He will speak to questions such as these:
Can we make a distributed web of books that supports vending and lending? How can our machines learn by reading these materials? Can we reconfigure the information to make interactive question answering machines? Can we learn from past human translations of documents to seed an automatic version? And, can we learn how to do optical character recognition by having billions of correct examples? What compensation systems will best serve creators and networked users? How do we preserve petabytes of changing data?
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:30:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
Sasha Kramer: Putting Waste to WorkJan 10, 2012 | 10:00 am
Emerging Explorer Sasha Kramer fights some of Haitis most pressing health, economic, and environmental problems, one toilet at a time.
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:14:00 -0800
Location: http://fora.
J-REC: US-Israel Security Through Cleantech CDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC Catalyst Session: Policy ReformDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC Catalyst Session: Clean EconomyDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC Catalyst Session: SustainabilityDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC: Launching a Generational MovementDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC: Closing RemarksDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC: Opening Remarks and PresentationsDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
J-REC: Uniting for an Oil-Free TransportationDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
On November 8, 2009, hundreds of Jewish leaders met in San Francisco for a conference featuring innovators from the energy industry, investment, sustainability, and policy.They shared ideas and experiences to help advance the generational movement for clean and secure energy.
Michael Pawlyn: Biomimicry in ArchitectureDec 28, 2011 | 4:00 pm
Architect Michael Pawlyn shows how nature offers a sourcebook of extraordinary design solutions to equip us for the challenges of building a sustainable future.
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:38:00 -0700
Location: http://fora.
