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How brain science will change computing

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

How brain science will change computing
How brain science will change computing

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain — to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

Introduction to Hadoop: The Basics

This session assumes absolutely no knowledge of Apache Hadoop and will provide a complete introduction to all the major aspects of the Hadoop ecosystem of projects and tools. If you are looking to get up to speed on Hadoop, trying to work out what all the Big Data...

Getting Serious about MySQL and Hadoop
Getting Serious about MySQL and Hadoop

Lean, mean MySQL and hulking Hadoop clusters may seem like an odd couple, but tying them together is now priority #1 for many MySQL users. This keynote talk on 1st day of this year's Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014 explores the data management trends...

Machine Learning Meets Economics
Machine Learning Meets Economics

Economists often build "structural models," where they specify a specific model of individual behavior and then use data to estimate the parameters of the model. Although such models require strong assumptions, they have the advantage that they can make principled...

Big Data Moonshots and Predictive Interaction

“Automation is not the solution to data transformation and data cleaning.” “Predictive Interaction is a new model for high-level human-data interaction that radically improves the productivity and accessibility of the most time-consuming work in the analytics...

Big Data, Small World: Kirk Borne at TED
Big Data, Small World: Kirk Borne at TED

Dr. Kirk Borne is a Multidisciplinary Data Scientist and an Astrophysicist. He is Professor of Astrophysics and Computational Science in the George Mason University School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences (SPACS). He received his B.S. degree in...

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our...