Superheroes Inspired by Islam
Naif Al-Mutawa discusses "THE 99," a comic book series featuring Islamic-inspired superheroes who combat stereotypes, extremism, and promote positive messages while collaborating with the Justice League.
Ananda Shankar Jayant Fights Cancer with Dance
Renowned classical Indian dancer shares her inspiring journey of battling cancer through dance, demonstrating the power of art and resilience in overcoming life's challenges.
Ocean's Glory and Horror
Explore the ocean's beauty and challenges through powerful underwater photography, showcasing marine life and inspiring environmental awareness and change.
Lateral Thinking - Staying Ahead of the Curve
Explore lateral thinking strategies with industry experts to stay ahead in cybersecurity. Learn key considerations for CXOs to navigate emerging challenges and opportunities in the digital landscape.
La Administración y Gestión del Fraude
Exploración de la prevención del fraude como complemento esencial de la ciberseguridad organizacional, enfocándose en habilidades y conocimientos necesarios para líderes de seguridad digital en la industria bancaria.
Tweet My Wedding Dress
Discover how to create a tech-enhanced wedding dress controlled by tweets, exploring Arduino coding, API usage, and wiring, with insights on overcoming challenges and embracing mistakes.
Recreating Forgotten Programming Languages, for Art
Explore the revival of early computer graphics languages, focusing on ART 1's recreation to understand vintage digital art techniques and limitations.
Alda's Dynamic Relationship with Clojure
Explore the intertwined history of Alda music programming language and Clojure, discussing their complex relationship, ZeroMQ, Open Sound Control, and native executable creation.
It's Just Matrix Multiplication - Notation for Weaving
Explore weaving notation, from basic terminology to complex network drafting, revealing connections between textile patterns and mathematical concepts like matrix multiplication.
Musical Steganography - Hiding Things in Music
Explore techniques for concealing messages in music, from Bach's compositions to modern digital methods. Learn to apply steganographic principles using TidalCycles and Haskell.
Mapping Imaginary Cities
Explore algorithms and techniques for procedurally generating fictional city maps, including topography, landscape, populations, and street plans. Dive into maps as a creative tool for conveying ideas about space and inhabitants.
Xiki - GUI and Text Interfaces are Converging
Xiki: Innovative text-based interface combining shell, code snippets, and GUI elements for efficient control of web browsers, databases, and APIs. Simplifies menu creation and tool interaction.
Better Spotify Playlists through Discrete Optimization
Explore algorithmic playlist creation using music theory and optimization techniques to generate cohesive, mood-setting Spotify playlists. Includes live demos and audience participation.
Making Games for 1920s Hardware
Explore the development of "Hello, Operator!", a game using a 1927 telephone switchboard. Learn about blending old and new tech, hardware challenges, and cross-platform game engine design.
Making Machines That Make Music
Explore the journey of modeling and generating Carnatic music using machine learning. Discover data collection techniques, raga identification, and automatic transcription, with demos comparing machine and human music.
Misuser
Exploring digital art from early computing eras, revealing system limitations and artistic innovations. Discusses challenges in preserving and exhibiting these works, highlighting cultural impacts on technology.
Resurrecting a Recommendations Platform
Explore the implementation of a deep learning model for recommendations while maintaining a legacy platform, focusing on data, machine learning, and A/B testing tiers in cloud migration.
A Theory of Everything
Unifying backend and frontend development perspectives to create a holistic approach to software engineering, bridging the gap between traditional computation and user interaction.
Generating Music From Emotion - and Other Experiments
Explore innovative techniques for generating music based on emotional patterns in books, videos, and films, using sentiment analysis and other non-musical data as foundations for musical storytelling.
Biomaterials as UI
Exploring biomaterials as a new frontier for user interfaces, this talk inspires developers to consider innovative ways of integrating nature-inspired materials into technology for enhanced user experiences.
Origami Software from Scratch
Explore the journey of creating origami software, from basic geometry to complex algorithms, with interactive visualizations and insights into mathematical foundations and user-friendly design.