Why the Buildings of the Future Will Be Shaped by You
Marc Kushner explores how public engagement and social media are revolutionizing architecture, leading to designs that better serve human needs and emotions while shaping the future of our built environment.
Pop an Ollie and Innovate!
Skateboarding legend Rodney Mullen shares how the open, creative community of street skating fosters innovation and passion-driven ingenuity through unique environments and trick creation.
Creative Problem-Solving in the Face of Extreme Limits
Discover "jugaad" innovation: maximizing value with limited resources. Learn three principles for frugal creativity and explore global examples of ingenious problem-solving in resource-constrained environments.
The World's Most Boring Television and Why It's Hilariously Addictive
Discover how slow TV captivates audiences with long, live broadcasts of mundane events. Learn about Norway's unique approach to television that turns boring into beautiful and fascinating.
The Deadly Genius of Drug Cartels
Uncover the sophisticated brand management behind Mexican drug cartels and how we're all complicit in their violence. Challenges conventional wisdom on cartel operations and their global impact.
How We Can Predict the Next Financial Crisis
Discover early warning signs for financial bubbles and learn how to predict economic crises using data-driven methods and the Financial Crisis Observatory's innovative approach.
The Clues to a Great Story
Discover the secrets of compelling storytelling from Pixar filmmaker Andrew Stanton as he shares insights on crafting narratives that captivate audiences from beginning to end.
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Sheryl Sandberg examines gender disparity in leadership roles and offers three powerful strategies for women aspiring to reach top positions in their professions.
Negotiating Privacy - Utility Trade-Offs under Differential Privacy
Explore privacy/utility trade-offs in differential privacy through a real IRS-DOE case study, examining challenges faced by data custodians when establishing data release standards.
Accelerating Collective Communication in Data Parallel Training across Deep Learning Frameworks
Techniques to improve Horovod's communication efficiency in data parallel training, enhancing performance and scalability for deep learning frameworks on supercomputers.
Beyond Distributed Tracing
Innovative method for aggregated end-to-end observability in microservices, enhancing root-cause analysis and outage prevention through Critical User Interaction attribution.
MT2 - Memory Bandwidth Regulation on Hybrid NVM/DRAM Platforms
Explores memory bandwidth regulation on hybrid NVM/DRAM platforms, introducing MT^2 to detect and mitigate traffic interference, improving application performance through dynamic bandwidth throttling.
Grand National 2021 - Managing Extreme Online Demand at William Hill
Strategies for managing unprecedented online demand during a major sporting event, focusing on SRE preparation, lambda@edge logic, and queueing systems to handle traffic spikes.
The Rise of the Citizen Developer - Assessing the Security Impact of Online App Generators
Assessing security risks of online app generators for citizen developers, revealing vulnerabilities in generated apps and their impact on the mobile ecosystem's overall health.
FuturesMEX - Secure, Distributed Futures Market Exchange
Explore a secure, distributed futures market exchange protocol with key operations, security properties, and economic viability considerations for low-frequency trading environments.
The Year of LangSec Bugs
Explores major software vulnerabilities of 2016 through the lens of Language-theoretic Security, highlighting preventable bugs and advocating for improved input handling approaches.
Users Really Do Plug in USB Drives They Find
Investigates end-user behavior with found USB drives through a controlled experiment, revealing high success rates and quick responses, driven by altruistic intentions rather than technical incompetence.
Storytelling for Engineers
Explore effective communication techniques for engineers using storytelling frameworks. Learn to connect with audiences, deliver key information, and inspire action in technical settings.
Pushing through Friction
Strategies for engineering leaders to identify and overcome organizational friction, enhancing team efficiency and driving positive change in complex technical environments.
Point Break - A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor
Explores bandwidth denial-of-service attacks against Tor, demonstrating feasibility and impact on network performance through experimentation and simulation. Analyzes costs and effects of various attack strategies.
Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of Privacy Regulation - Parents' IoT Toy Privacy Norms Versus COPPA
Explores alignment between COPPA regulations and parents' privacy expectations for smart toys, using contextual integrity surveys to quantify regulatory effectiveness and identify nuanced privacy concerns.